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Pizza with Mushrooms, Bacon & Leeks

While I am an unabashed lover of pizza, I tend to be a purist when it comes to my favorite food.  I’m more or less addicted to my marinara recipe and think it is the ideal base for a building any pie.  A recent freelance assignment challenged me to craft a pizza fit for the fall season and I found myself …

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Super Bowl’s Perfect Pizza

I’ve been trying to come up with the perfect Buffalo Chicken wing.  To me, it is the quintessential game-day indulgence.  Like football, it comes with a passionate army of fans, fans with unwavering allegiances to their teams, their perfect buffalo chicken wing.  Fried or baked?  Mild, medium or five-alarm-fire?  Bleu cheese or ranch?  I faced the same conundrum with my …

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Parmesan Garlic Flatbread

I am aching to return to my routine.  The past several weeks have been host to a plethora of emotions, compliments of a series of events.  Punctuated by anxiety, happiness, fear, nostalgia and overwhelming gratefulness, blogging was set aside and my attentions were turned elsewhere.  Focused on family and friends, I escaped to St. Simons Island and Destin, Florida for …

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Calzoni & Bootcamp, an Unlikely Combination

It is so easy to get caught up in the stress of the day, the distractions of the week.  I’ve talked before about putting those anxieties aside and sequestering myself in the kitchen, throwing 100% of my time and attention into the meal I am creating.  I need this time.  It sustains me for the moments in between.  The only …

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Pizza with Butternut Squash Puree, Goat Cheese & Pancetta

I absolutely love having friends and family over for dinner.  I look forward to it like a child looks forward to Christmas morning.  I’ll spend the weeks leading up to the dinner making list after list (I’m a self-declared list-making addict), processing my thoughts, playing with different menu ideas and driving my husband crazy with ‘what do you think about…’ …