Homemade Pizza Dough "European Style"2 1 / 2 c. all-purpose flour 1 tsp active dry yeast 1 1/2 C. lukewarm water2 Tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt Preparation: In a bowl dissolve yeast and sugar in lukewarm water. Mix all ing (read full article)

Spinach Artichoke Pizza

This is an easy homemade spinach and artichoke pizza you’ll be sure to love if you like the dip. I made a white sauce with red onions and garlic, instead of a traditional red sauce. We make pizza almost every week, and I have been trying to th (read full article)

Our Pizza meets The Grill.

This was a nice weekend experiment. Easy, fun, and delicious!After rolling out the dough (and letting it rise an hr. too long),we grilled one side on our charcoal grill, then moved it off the grill(cooked side facing up) onto a pizza pan to spread on (read full article)

One step closer to a pasta machine

 Jan is always looking for the next gadget to assist him in making the perfect meal. I, however, am perpetually concerned about the increasing amount of small, countertop kitchen appliances we accumulate in our linen closet/overflow pantry. It̵ (read full article)

Updates

It seems like I disappeared for the last few days but I have been working on a short story and actually I have made a few additions to my blog, in existing posts. For example The Pizza sauces and toppings has new topping recipes. “Anchovy and S (read full article)

Homemade Pasta with Sausage and Grape Tomato Sauce

 It's been a whole year since I first started Acquired Taste and almost 100 posts (92 to be exact). I wanted to synchronize the two blog marks at the same time, but I just didn't get to unfortunately. I have however made something I kept saying (read full article)

Pizza Bake-Off!

A few weeks ago, me and my friend Amy planned a pizza bake-off party. Each of us would bake our own pie's at her and Michaels place while the boy's played with the dogs, drank beer and took some shots of us prepping. It was so fun!!Here's how it went (read full article)

Oh Pioneer Woman - please forgive me.

Remember how I told you I followed the recipes to a "T" for the homemade pizza dough smackdown for the sake of keeping things fair and square? Well I did...up until the baking part for the Pioneer Woman's dough.For some reason I felt possessed to coo (read full article)

QUICK BARBECUE CHICKEN PIZZA

Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 (10 oz.) can refrigerated pizza crust 2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cubed 1 small onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 red pepper, chopped 2/3 cup barbecue sauce 1 cup shredded cheese 1- (read full article)

Easy Meals in Minutes: Recipes, Tips & Tricks!

Soup is one of those meals that you think would take all day to prepare. But, you can easily make a delicious soup in about 30 minutes with a couple of short cuts. Buy using ready-made broth, you can easily whip up your favorite soups in no time. My (read full article)

Cilantro, Shrimp, and Goat Cheese Pizza with Rebecca Rather's Crust

Rebecca Rather of the Rather Sweet Bakery and Cafe in Fredericksburg, TX is dubbed 'The Pastry Queen' because of her delicious pies, cakes, and cookies. But the funny thing is when I eat at her restaurant, it's the savory items that stick with me. He (read full article)

Homemade Pizza Dough Smack Down

For years I've wanted to make homemade pizza dough. I'd come across a recipe, run out and buy all of the ingredients only to return home, re-read the recipe and get cold feet.So many steps. Measure. Mix. Let rise. Punch down. Kneed. Let rest. Kneed a (read full article)

Sicilian Pizza with Mushrooms

Pizza di Fungi X X More Pizza? X Hey I think we’re on to something! Pizza Sauces and Toppings, was probably my most popular post. So I need to deduce that lots of people love pizza. X Flavorful, versatile, inexpensive, fast, universal, kid frien (read full article)

Post 207: Homemade pizzas

I was bumbling around the kitchen struggling to think what to cook, when I saw the breadmaker and hit upon the idea of pizza's. Possible if I'd looked in the drawer and found Domino's number then I might still have had pizza for T but with a lot less (read full article)

Grilled Pizza with Bacon and Rosemary

Okay, so this whole thing started with two things. First, my wonderful friend J gave me her copy of Taste of the South magazine. I had never heard of this one before, but it took about 30 seconds of paging through it before I was filling out my own (read full article)

Classic Pepperoni Pizza + Homemade Sauce + Homemade Crust

Everyone should have an easy pizza dough recipe… one that’s easy to work with and make ahead, isn’t too fussy to roll out, and bakes up perfectly no matter what you decide to put on it. That’s this one: Easy Pizza Dough. A ba (read full article)

How to make Pizza Dough

The above picture looks like fresh homemade Mozzarella cheese, doesn’t it? Yummy though it sounds (Love that stuff!), its sadly not. But what I have is something which when baked with assorted topping can make everyone’s taste buds go in (read full article)

a whole grain pizza to swoon over

During our early courtship, the Mr., back then the boyfriend, took me to a neighborhood pizza joint on the upper westside. Out of curiosity I ordered a slice of the whole wheat pizza. My tastebuds wondered what they'd done to deserve such an assault. (read full article)

Whole Wheat Bread with Hemp Seeds

I have had the idea that I was going to start making homemade bread for quite a while now. However, I never seem to get around to it. Buying bread seems so much easier, although it is not nearly as tasty and much more expensive. I’ve only made (read full article)

Freschetta Frozen Pizza Review

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Freschetta. All opinions are 100% mine. Most of the time, I take my time to make homemade pizza. I’ll make my own dough, which has taken me years to get just so. I make my own marinara sauce. (read full article)