Night #2 of our Five Nights of Pizza experiment: Pizza Margherita.
This pizza takes us to the next stop in pizza history. Well, almost the next stop.
Entries from May 2008
May 29, 2008
Pizza Margherita
May 28, 2008
Sourdough Pizza Crust
With Laura’s Pizza Research Extravaganza going on right now, this seems like the perfect time to share my recipe for sourdough pizza crust.
We’ve gotten rather hooked on sourdough pizza crust in the past few months. I’m not sure that it is historically accurate (i.e. I don’t think that pizza arrived in this country until AFTER [...]
May 28, 2008
Olympus Honey Bread
Here is our ancient Greek sweet pizza, which we made from the sweet ingredients we didn’t feel we could include on our dinner pizza on the first stop in pizza history.
May 27, 2008
Pizza Blogging: A family research project
We have started an annual tradition in our homeschooling house: the Annual Family Research Project, held each May after we have completed all our academic work for the year. The boys and I sit down and brainstorm a list of possible topics, then select one of them, and research it together. Last [...]
May 25, 2008
Laura Bee’s Sweet Tea
When we moved to the southeastern part of the US, there was one thing that I found totally incomprehensible: sweet tea. I grew up drinking large quantities of sun tea when I was a kid in Arizona. I GET that. It was so refreshing and we could drink gallons of it in a day.
In the [...]
May 23, 2008
California Girl does Carolina Barbecue
One of things that we’ve learned since we moved to the southeast is that people in the Carolinas take barbecue VERY seriously. In fact, barbecue is not a verb. One doesn’t “barbecue” meat. It’s practically a proper noun, as in, “Mildred is bringing Barbecue to the potluck so the line will start forming the day [...]
May 16, 2008
Guacamole Chicken
I went into the kitchen this afternoon with no real inspiration regarding dinner. But as I started pulling out things from my fridge, this meal began to take shape. It was wildly successful, I’m happy to report!
May 15, 2008
Amish Friendship Bread, Part 2
Little did we know that the Amish Friendship Bread recipe that we posted 14 months ago would become the most-viewed post on MSK ever. The comment section has grown to 130 comments, all full of great questions and creative ideas for variations on AFB. What amazing readers we have!
A few weeks ago, I got a [...]
May 1, 2008
Sharon’s Egg Bake
A dear lady in my Bible study brought this classic egg dish to a recent brunch, and it was so delicious that I asked her for the recipe. She graciously shared it with me–it’s a winner for brunches and potlucks.
