Pizza Party Time!!

homemade pepperoni pizza with fresh basil

We recently got an outdoor pizza oven — Ooni Koda 16 — and it’s been so fun experimenting with different pizza dough recipes for ourselves and our friends. Friday night pizza night is a much more active tradition now. And our friends love it when we host a pizza party, too! Chris and I started…

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Sicilian Fried Dough Balls – Christmas in Italy

Part eight in my Christmas Around the World series! Christmas in Italy, focus on: DOUGH BALLS! Big thank you to my friend Mel for joining me on the show again to share her family tradition! Yay! Fried dough balls! A simple bread dough; little bites of it filled with cheese or pepperoni or anchovies, then…

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Pizza Roll Recipe

I wanted to make pizza rolls, like the things you buy frozen — little bite-sized pockets of dairy fat and shortening surrounding a tiny cube of “pepperoni” — but quickly realized that I don’t have the patience for making 100 bite-sized pizza pockets and if I don’t have the patience for that, who does?! (That…

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Socca Pizza – Gluten-free Pizza-like Delicious!

I discovered the wondrous foodstuff that is socca very recently after googling what the hayell to do with this bag of chickpea flour I’d had in the pantry since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. “Socca” is one of the first things to pop up. I made it once, plain-style, and then was immediately struck with…

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Homemade Pizza … At Home!

I never made completely homemade pizza before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere in tha werld before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the…

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