Pizza with Salami and Mushrooms recipe (Pizza Capricciosa)

I love making my own pizzas, and with a little time and effort, you can easily make your own at home. The investment is well worth the effort, because a home made pizza is much, much better than a delivery pizza. Just try it a couple of times and you will never reach for the [...]

The Best Damn Collection of Easy Italian Recipes Ever

I love to cook. that’s probably why my waistline is not what it used to be. It’ somewhere north oflglkhj. Hmmm…. I seem to be having trouble writing that. No matter. My favorite recipes are Italian. I love Italian food. I also love to write recipes that I personally have tried, made up, experimented with [...]

Poule Au Pot (Chicken in the pot) recipe

t was Henry IV of France’s ambition to create such a wealthy nation that every family in the land would be able to afford this dish every Sunday. Of course, that put a little strain on the chicken population come Sunday, but it’s a nice story.
The original recipe for this calls to use the giblets [...]

Ratatouille

Ratatouille sounds like a hard dish to cook and I think most people are put off by the fact that it includes eggplant. Eggplant is not difficult to cook either, but it does require some preparation work before you can cook it. I will go through this step by step and you’ll find it’s no [...]

Essential cooking tools

There are dozens, if not hundreds, or possibly even thousands of gadgets for sale to use in the kitchen. My personal opinion is that most of them are going to spend much of their lives at the bottom of a drawer, or the back of a cupboard, with a few exceptions.
There was a time when [...]

Boat Drinks

“Gentlemen, we have boat drinks.” The classic toast at the end of the film “Things to do in Denver when you’re dead.” Of course all the characters are dead, but finally they are realizing their dream. Sharing boat drinks with friends on the deck of an expensive boat at sea. Jimmy Buffet had a few [...]

Best spaghetti a la carbonara recipe cooking made easy