What’s New (and Returning) at Trader Joe’s – February 21, 2024

In the aftermath of Valentine's Day only a few new items seemed to roll in last week, but I stopped in after a dentist appointment today and there were plenty of new and returning items to chuck into my basket. As spotted in the Pacific Northwest. NEW: I've got the oven preheating for Trader…

ByMichelleFebruary 21, 20240Comments

Product Review

We Tried CauliPower Pizza

If You've Only Tried Trader Joe's Cauliflower Pizza Crust, It's Time to Branch Out We're not a gluten-free household, so cauliflower pizza crust is more of a novelty than a requirement. I tried Trader Joe's cauliflower crust a couple of years ago just to see what it was like. I wasn't all that impressed with…

ByMichelleAugust 22, 20190Comments

Book Reviews Pizza

Really Dough: Alton Brown’s Last Pizza Dough I’ll Ever Need

It wouldn't be the dailywaffle if we didn't try the pizza dough in Alton Brown's EveryDayCook. Is it weird to have a house pizza dough? Well, we eat make and eat enough pizza around here that Kenji Lopez-Alt's NY-Style dough turned into the go-to recipe. But last week, as I was cooking my way through Alton…

ByMichelleOctober 14, 20160Comments

Pizza

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

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

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

Pizza Recipes

Damn Near Perfect Whole Wheat Pizza

I’ve been, let's call it what it is, short my entire life. On my tallest day, coincidentally, the day I got my driver's license, I was 5'1. So when you find a pair of pants that fits without needing alterations, you buy three pairs in black and never look back. It’s the same thing with pizza dough. When you find a dough recipe that works, you just keep on with it. For me, that’s been the Food Lab’s NY-style pizza dough. But after awhile, you start to need another pair of pants. What I really wanted was a whole wheat crust. So I started tinkering with my tried and true. Tinkering until I got the Food Lab’s NY-style pizza dough to go whole wheat.

ByMichelleJune 24, 201311Comments

Recipes Salads

Dinner for One: Cherry Arugula Salad

Today, it's been eight days since I’ve seen my husband. I’ve eaten five dinners on my own, if granola and snack mix on the plane home from Austin count as “dinner.” Cooking what I like, only for myself, usually that’s totally liberating. I get to eat all the things I like and he doesn’t. I see myself leaning against the stove in a crisp white shirt (mmm, very practical), sleeves rolled up, stirring a pot with one hand, contemplating my day while leisurely sipping a glass of red wine. Like in a movie.

ByMichelleJune 14, 20130Comments