summer

  Everybody likes pizza. That's a fact. And because I am one of these pizza-loving people, I was excited to hear that this month's Recipe Redux theme was "Pizza Party." You see, pizza is sortof a thing around here. For the past couple of years, my parents have had a weekly tradition of inviting over everyone they know and making an obscene number of pizzas on their barbeque grill. They have a system: Mom mixes up and rolls out the dough and lays it on a pizza peel for Dad, who takes it outside, slides it onto clay grilling stones, loads it up with toppings,&[...]

It's Recipe Redux time again! This month's theme is Good Luck Foods, and we were instructed to create a recipe using foods people typically eat on New Year's Day to bring good luck for the year: things like long noodles (to promote longevity), pomegranates (which symbolize prosperity), and pork (symbolizes progress). Black-eyed peas are a traditional New Year's Day food in the south. It is thought that the legumes were originally planted to feed livestock, but during the Civil War when many crops were destroyed or stolen, the black-eyed peas remained and became a[...]