FridayNightSlice: Ya Make Me Wanna Shoop Pizza

October is national pizza month. I haven't made a pizza for every day of the month so far, but I'm close. But a lot of them have been very similar, variations of pepperoni, olive and whatever peppers I have in the fridge. This one happens to be the last ball of dough from Kenji Lopez-Alt's New…

ByMichelleOctober 14, 20160Comments

Friday Night Slice: Asparagus Flatbread with Kalamatas & Mama Lil’s Peppers

Asparagus is so good on pizza, I had to do it two ways this week. Sunday's edition was for the asparagus purist -- dough simply stretched and brushed with olive oil, sprinkled with red pepper flakes, then topped with mozzarella and fontina. The asparagus spears are cut in half, and the bottoms are cut into…

ByMichelleMay 27, 20160Comments

Cooking Just for Fun

What’s New at Trader Joe’s – April 2016

Here's a quick look at some of the new items at Trader Joe's this month, spotted at stores in Washington state. The new offerings run the gamut from soups to condiments to dessert. TJ's also has a new Moroccon Mint Tea (not pictured - 64 oz. plastic bottle) which is surprisingly good, not too sweet,…

ByMichelleApril 26, 20160Comments

Baking Main Course Pizza Recipes

FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Pizza

Sometimes there's no big story. Sometimes it's just what you made for dinner. That sometime is now. Print Recipe FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Serves: 10 Cooking Time: 19 minutes Ingredients 1 ball of dough from Kenji's NY Style pizza dough 1/3 c. crushed tomatoes 1/2 t. dried oregano olive oil to drizzle…

ByMichelleJuly 10, 20150Comments

Cooking Pizza Recipes

FridayNightSlice: DailyWaffle Deluxe

If you're a Trader Joe's shopper, you know some items don't stick around long. They appear on the New Items shelf one week and a month later, they might be gone, not popular enough to keep their shelf space. I worry that the Hot 'n Sweet peppers are going to be one of those items, especially around here, where most people ask for 1-star spicy at restaurants. These little peppers are fan-freaking-tastic on pizza and they're one of the items on today's #FridayNightSlice -- the DailyWaffle Deluxe.

ByMichelleJune 20, 20140Comments

Cooking Pizza Recipes

Friday Night Slice: Whether You’re 8 or 38 Pizza

The crappy pizzas of childhood scar us all. Forgettable as they may be, greasy slapdash cardboard slices from Chuck E. Cheese or Peter Piper form our first experiences with pizza. They create the far end of your spectrum, so that when you come back to that end of the scale around 2 a.m. in your…

ByMichelleMarch 21, 20140Comments

FridayNightSlice: Ya Make Me Wanna Shoop Pizza

Friday Night Slice: Asparagus Flatbread with Kalamatas & Mama Lil’s Peppers

What’s New at Trader Joe’s – April 2016

FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Pizza

FridayNightSlice: DailyWaffle Deluxe

Friday Night Slice: Whether You’re 8 or 38 Pizza

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