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Pizza Lab #25: Chicken Noodle Soup Pizza
It’s a new year, and time for another 12 months of pizza lab ideas. While our last Pizza Lab for 2014 ended pretty disastrously (so disastrously in fact that we couldn’t even work up the motivation to post about it. But we’ll revisit it someday, don’t worry), the first Pizza Lab for 2015 kicked things off to a good start.
The idea for this pizza came about from my thinking about what kind of pizza we should experiment with next while out on my third cold walk of the day at work. We agreed we should try to do something wintery for this one. And what’s more comforting on a cold winter day than a nice warm bowl of chicken noodle soup? Now obviously we couldn’t just pour chicken noodle soup onto a pizza crust. That would be very messy, and soggy; we just wanted to capture the flavors of it.
We Can Do It Better: Gingerbread French Toast
Back around Christmas time I saw on TV that the chain restaurant Denny’s was serving Gingerbread French toast. I thought that sounded delicious and decided we needed to try making it ourselves. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to try making them before Christmas. But while gingerbread men are a traditional Christmas cookie, just plain gingerbread is more of just a general wintertime treat, so there’s still time to make gingerbread French toast!
Some basic research revealed a plethora of recipes calling themselves gingerbread French toast. I feared we were too late to jump on the gingerbread French toast bandwagon. However, upon closer inspection we realized most of these recipes didn’t actually use gingerbread! They just used regular bread and added gingerbread spices to it (or were weird things that didn’t even look like French toast, but that’s another story). But where’s the fun in that?
Quick Recipe: Curry Dipping Sauce
This recipe doesn’t really have much of an elaborate back story or anything. Basically, I made it to go along with the chicken fingers I made for dinner one night. While honey mustard is my go-to, all-time favorite dipping condiment for chicken fingers, I was just in the mood to try something different this time. So I whipped up this recipe off the top of my head. It’s really yummy for chicken fingers, and also French fries. It takes a standard American food and gives it a touch of exotic flair.
We Can Do It Better: Disco Rings (or Cheesy French Onion Soup Rings)
A few weeks ago, this picture popped up on my Facebook newsfeed courtesy of Ted Allen (host of Chopped)’s fan page.
Original photo credit for this goes to Ted Allen I believe.
The caption indicated that they were cheesy French onion soup rings. I immediately Googled this concoction and discovered that they’re a menu item at the New York City restaurant Alder. I immediately sent the picture to Erik saying something along the lines of “Holy shit these look amazing, we need to make them immediately. They’re pretty much just disco fries with onion rings.” He agreed and thus our version, which we’ve been calling disco rings, was born.
Happy New Year! And Food Resolutions
We’re hours away from a new year. A fresh start. It’s a time when many people make New Year’s resolutions. Of course most people end up abandoning their resolutions after a few weeks or a month or two. But right now people are still looking at ways to make this year better than the last. Since one of our goals is encouraging people to expand their home cooking skills, we’ve come up with some food and cooking resolutions that may be helpful (if you’re in the market for New Year’s resolutions).
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