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Cheat Codes: Homemade Tortilla Chips
Tortilla chips are a party snack classic. They’re strong enough to hold up dips of pretty much any kind, but mild enough in flavor to let said dip shine. And yet they also have enough of their own flavor to be yummy eaten on their own. Tortilla chips bought at the store are usually pretty good (though some are better than others. Perhaps we’ll have a snack report comparison about it one of these days), but tortilla chips at Mexican restaurants are usually even better. That’s because most places make their chips fresh from scratch. And is the case with almost all food stuffs, fresher is better.
Making tortilla chips from super scratch involves making tortillas from scratch. While probably awesome, making fresh tortillas is a bit too much work for this particular application. That’s why this is a cheat code; it’s halfway between totally from scratch and straight up store bought.
Luckily, despite soft tortillas from scratch involves multiple ingredients and special equipment, making tortilla chips only requires three ingredients and standard kitchen equipment.
Pizza Lab #29: Cheesecake Pizza
Okay folks, let’s talk cheesecake. It’s a cake, sorta… but it’s filled with cheese. Cream cheese, to be specific. And it’s quite a delectable-ass dessert. When you think of just the name alone, it does sound kind of silly though. Most people default the idea of cheese to old favorites like cheddar, swiss, limburger, etc… Few people hear the word cheese and go “Oh yeah! Mascarpone!” On the flipside, one thing we do think of when cheese comes up, is obviously pizza.
Whoa, shit, do you know what this means?!
It’s exactly what it looks like.
Pizza Lab #26: Peanut Butter Cup Pizza
Chocolate and peanut butter, peanut butter and chocolate – it’s one of the world’s best flavor combinations to ever come into creation. The first person to combine the two should have won a Nobel Prize for their work towards bettering the Earth. Now, considering that Erik and I both love the peanut butter/chocolate combo and pizza, it’s kind of surprising it took us almost two years of doing Pizza Labs to make a peanut butter cup pizza. Luckily the wait is now over because for February that’s exactly what we decided to do.
We agreed early on in the month that we should do a dessert pizza in honor of Valentine’s Day. Considering it was one of our newest ideas, we pretty quickly settled on the peanut butter cup pizza. Also it has a lot of chocolate and chocolate and Valentine’s Day goes together. A combination (pizza and peanut butter cups) with a flavor combination (chocolate and peanut butter) that we love in honor of Valentine’s Day. What could be more perfect?
Quick Recipe: Fluffy Battered Onion Rings
There are two types of onion rings in this world. There’s your standard crispy, breaded onion rings, and then there’s your fluffy battered onion rings usually served at diners. Both are yummy. But lately I’ve been all about the battered onion rings. I hadn’t had any for a long time, and then we had some at a diner about a month ago and remembered how good they are. Obviously we decided we needed to make our own at home, since we generally decide we need to figure out how to make everything ourselves at home. And thus, this recipe was born.
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.
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