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Latest Recipes
Cheesy Spinach & Artichoke Dip
New York Style Pizza Sauce
This is the recipe that we use to make the sauce used on our New York Style Pizza. It is a cooked sauce that has great flavor and works really well on our pizzas. We doubled the original recipe so that we can use an entire 28oz can of whole peeled tomatoes. I make...
Pasta With Garlic and Oil (Aglio E Olio)
This recipe is one of many pasta recipes from Grandma Lucy. I don’t recall ever having it as a kid, but it would have been a favorite for sure if I did. John was going through all of the pasta recipes that have yet to be uploaded when he came across this one last...
Grilled Pork Chops
A properly seasoned and cooked pork chop is right up there near the top of my list of things I LOVE to eat. After years of fumbling around getting it wrong, I’ve been working on making the perfect pork chop. I may not be 100% there yet but I’m close! It starts with a...
Seasoned Rack of Pork
Most people probably have never heard of Costco’s Seasoned Rack of Pork (pictured after cooking above). It is something they prepare and sell in some of their stores, but not all of them. The Costco near where we live prepares these racks of pork for Thanksgiving and...
Crispy Italian Bread
The experience of making pizza dough lead me to try making Italian bread and focaccia bread using Vito Lacopelli’s All-In-One Pizza, Italian Bread and Focaccia Bread Recipe. Both the Italian bread and the focaccia bread came out good, which started me thinking about...