http://www.memakefood.com mmmmmm.... food Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:22:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Theresa and I met at Papa John's 13 years ago. I was a manager and she worked in store. We have made thousands of cheesestix in our lives. Since I have been doing the bread and making pizza crusts, I figured this would be easy. Made ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/03/08/cheese-stix-home-style/ So we trying to make some new meals. Have had some failures, but nailed it Friday night. Some folks suggested some good sites to find recipes. Epicurious seems like a favorite, but after scanning a bunch of recipes I was getting frustrated and decided to try an ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/20/voodooish-chicken-turned-out-awesome/ I use a lot of cheese cloth. Clarifying butter, draining yogurt, filtering out stocks before separating out the fat, and other things. The $3 little packs from the grocery store are so lame because you get so little of it. I usually have 2 packs on hand. ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/20/10-yards-of-cheese-cloth-for-21/ Left is dinner rolls without any steam in the oven (forgot to put a cup of hot water in the preheated broiler pan) Right with steam, but still undercooked. Been making bread and pizza shells every day for a week and took a couple days off. This dough recipe makes a ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/18/bread-update/ Took some of the refrigerated dough yesterday and made a few pizza crusts. Roll out and place on hot stone for about 3 minutes to set the dough and kill the yeast. Today I made a pizza and put it on a hot stone just so I could ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/15/pizza-on-homemade-crust-turned-out-great/ We roast chickens often and normally make chicken noodle soup, but I thought a soup with rice in it might be good. Used the pressure cooker to make a stock from the chicken leavings with onion, carrots, celery, garlic, peppercorns, bay leafs, and water. An hour cooking made ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/14/soup-chicken-and-rice-was-nice/ Same dough, 2nd day of baking. Got a few more tips. Letting the oven go about 20 minutes after preheating will ensure the whole oven is at the temp you want and hold it better. This time I let the dough rise a bit more before I ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/10/2nd-loaf/ Was planning on making Chicken Scallopine from Pioneer woman with zucchini instead of mushrooms. Theresa took one bite and almost spit it out. It was not overly lemony, but just tasted strange. I forgot the wine too. olive oil and a bit of clarified butter to cook the ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/10/attempt-at-a-new-meal-results-in-a-non-win/ Picked up artisan bread in 5 min a day. Quick read on how it works and then lots of recipes on tweaking the dough to make about anything. It starts you off with a baguette. and that is what I really wanted to learn anyways. I ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/09/first-loaf/ Theresa picked me up some books. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day Made up my first batch of dough last night and will let you know how it goes. Alton Brown I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 I can't ever get enough Alton. A friend hooked ... http://www.memakefood.com/2010/02/09/food-stuffis/