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Smoked Chicken Thighs

Smoked Chicken Thighs

Over the past few years, we have really come to enjoy smoking meats at home. We started by using our outdoor wood-burning oven (Pizza Oven), and eventually got a dedicated smoker. When people think of a smoker things like brisket, ribs, and pulled pork immediately...

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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...

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Grilled Pork Chops

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...

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Sausage, Peppers and Onions

Sausage, Peppers and Onions

This is originally a Giada DeLaurentis recipe. We have been making it for years with a few tweaks, and serve it over pasta or rice.  It is an Italian classic that takes less then an hour to make. Here is a link to Giada’s original recipe on the Food Network...

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Seasoned Rack of Pork

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...

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Crispy Italian Bread

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...

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Neapolitan Style Pizza Dough – 64% Hydration

Neapolitan Style Pizza Dough – 64% Hydration

This is Vito Lacopelli's pizza dough recipe using a home made poolish (pre-fermented dough). There are a few things you should be aware of when making this dough. First, the dough will take two days to make so you need to have that in mind when you are planning. You...

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