This year, I'm planning on cooking a lot more often, and I started this weekend. Yesterday I cooked a ham. My first ham! I made a glaze with brown sugar, hibiscus honey, and champagne mustard. It was delicious! I froze half of the ham for later, because we'll get hammed out. Today, I made a pineapple and ham pizza. I used a packaged crust, but added some parmesean, rosemary and basil and garlic to it. I always cook my crust for about 10 minutes first, because I can't stand soggy crusts. Then I added some sauce (LaRosa's from Cincinnati) a little bit of cheese and big chunks of our delicious ham and some pineapple. Cooked it another 20 minutes, topped it with crushed red pepper, and YUM!
We have so many cookbooks and recipes (cut out from magazines, given to us on scraps of paper from friends and family, etc.). So this year, we're going to attempt to go through a lot of those and when we find a recipe we like, we'll write it down as a keeper. Hopefully, we'll make it through a few cookbooks and all the loose papers over the course of the year, helping to clear out some of the clutter!
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I got in a cooking frenzy last week and haven't even made toast this week. I'm lucky that my spousal equiv. cooks for me.
That pizza looks good. I tried to get that idea to fly for dinner after seeing your shot & was told that we're having salad.
I like the pizza idea better.
Ooh! That picture made my mouth water! I, too, am trying to focus on cooking more this year, and pizza is one of the things I love to make!
You should try making your pizza dough! It's SO easy, it's time-intensive but barely any hands-on. I use this one: http://annies-eats.net/2008/08/15/perfect-pizza-crust/
It's super yummy and makes two big pizzas. You can freeze it too. :)
That looks so yummy! I may have to try and make it! Love the photo of it too.
I have cooked the entire holiday break and decided tonight it would be California Pizza night (frozen) - but yours looks oh, so much better. I look forward to following along with your recipes and pictures. Well done on the food shot - not always easy to do.
That looks so delicious. My son had a ham and pineapple pizza today his favoite.
Everyone with food tonight... I am STARVING!!!! That looks soo yummy seriously. Cooking is on my res list too. I haven't started yet though, because I have to start my 'make a list and take it to the grocery store' resolution first ;)
The pizza looks yummy! Good for you for resolving to cook more and use all the recipes you've collected. Can't wait to hear about more!
Oooh that looks delish!! My favorite kind of pizza!
mmmm, i love ham and pineapple pizza! yours looks more yummy than any I've had, that's for sure!
Not crazy about pineapple on my pizza - but yours look good! Love cooking and baking - even make my own pizza crust (but with my trusted bread machine!!)
Oh that looks so good! I really like your blog header as well
Very impressive, but I'm drooling all over my keyboard now!
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