March Daring Bakers: Lasagna (Gluten Free)

I will go ahead and admit that I wasn’t that excited when I saw this month’s challenge.  I know there is a Daring Cooks group to debut soon, but this seemed too close to cooking, and I wanted to be more challenged in the baking arena.  I also had to make the gluten free version [...]

October Daring Bakers: Peter Reinhart’s Pizza

The Daring Bakers are baking up another Peter Reinhart recipe for October’s challenge.  I didn’t mind one bit because I love Peter Reinhart and his book and because I had really been wanting to try out his recipe for pizza dough.  This gave me just the nudge I needed!  Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yum-Yums chose [...]

Gnocchi with Oregano-Butter Sauce (and my 100th post!)

I have never had gnocchi until I made this, but after seeing it on a Food Network show (I think it might have been Emeril), I knew I wanted to make it. I somehow just knew that I would love it. The only thing that stopped me was that I did not have [...]

The Best Pizza Dough

Chelley read my mind this week when she made this pizza dough. Over the weekend I decided that I wanted pizza sometime this week and the recipe that Chelley used was the same recipe that I had planned to try. I had previously tried a recipe from allrecipes.com that was popular for a [...]

Spicy Italian-Style Chicken with Sausage, Peppers, and Onions- Scarpariello

I was looking through the Cook’s Illustrated website for dinner ideas and came across this recipe when I was searching for chicken ideas. It sounded interesting and I wanted to try something different, so I decided to go for it. We ended up really enjoying it. I haven’t done a whole lot [...]

Chicken Cacciatore

This dish used to be in our regular rotation but we haven’t made it in a while.  The recipe is originally from Emeril, but as I have prepared and eaten it, it has been adjusted to my personal tastes.  Last week I decided that I wanted to make it again and since this month’s Weekend [...]

Lasagna

Lasagna is one of my favorite dinners. It’s such a nice classic dinner and it’s hard not to like it. I hadn’t had it in a while, so the other day I decided to make it. It’s hard to find the perfect recipe for the sauce. After searching tons of lasagna [...]

Mini Italian Meatloaves

I have had an interesting relationship with meat loaf during my life. When I was younger, I hated when my mom would make it for dinner. When I was about nine or ten, she finally stopped making it and I was content to completely deny meat loaf’s existence forever. I figured I [...]

Shrimp Fra Diavolo

I came to the conclusion that David and I were in a food rut. We always have good dinners, but we were too restricted to the same foods in our rotation. We couldn’t think of what we wanted or didn’t look for new ideas. I decided that it was time to get [...]

Chicken Stuffed Shells

This is a popular dish with David and me. We are both huge fans of any kind of Italian food, and we eat pasta pretty often. These stuffed shells are pretty easy to put together and it’s so good! I got the recipe from Amber’s Delectable Delights, but I did make a [...]