The recipes we actually cook.
I started making focaccia when I needed to find a use for some leftover pizza dough. I enriched it with olive oil, topped it with kosher salt, and baked it in a pan. We ate it with olive oil and balsamic, and it was lovely.
Making pasta by hand is easier than it looks. It takes about 20 minutes, plus a bit of cleanup.
A plate of spaghetti is a warm, comforting meal. Topping it with a meatball or two elevates it to perfection.
This is a classic, comforting soup, perfect for the late Summer or Fall.
This was our kids first and favourite lasagna, and we used it as a vessel to hide vegetables in.
A perfect sauce for flat breads, pizza, and as a quick and fresh pasta.
A quick pizza sauce that requires only tomato paste.
This is my original pizza dough recipe, based on my memory of doughs I made in restaurants.
Our pizza sauce continues to evolve. This version uses pasata and is uncooked.
There are a few ways to make pizza sauce, depending on how lazy you are. One of our favourite sauces is cooked down from good tomatoes for a moderate amount of time, and my fastest sauce comes from a tin of crushed tomatoes or sauce …
Some days I just want an easy pizza dough. I don’t want it 3 days from now, I just know I have food in the fridge that needs to be used up, and a pizza is the most palatable way to do it. This recipe is based on a Serious Eats recipe , and …
A basic marinara sauce can be used directly or as a base to other sauces. This recipe is based on Chef John’s and others I have seen. It’s thicker and richer than a pizza sauce , and can be adapted as a base for savoury sauces (meat or …
This is a great filling for vegetarian pasta like ravioli, tortellini, or sauced pastas like lasagne or ragu.
Pizza with less effort, what’s not to like? A long rise time results in a deeper flavour.
This is an improved dough tuned to work easily with a 6L stand mixer. It’s high-hydration and can be sticky, but the extra water provides a better ferment and lift. It also works well for focaccia with the addition of more oil in the pan …
This is another iteration of my pizza dough recipe, based on some experimentation in late 2021. This is a medium-high hydration dough, optionally reinforced with additional gluten for structure and chew. I skip the autolyse step now, which …
