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Sourdough Pizza Dough

May 7, 2020

This sourdough pizza dough is fast and you can use your sourdough starter discard! There is no kneading because it’s all made in the food processor!

This sourdough pizza dough is easy, fast and you can use your sourdough starter discard!

Fickle, fickle world. Sourdough bread may go in and out of style faster than Hammer Pants, but pizza will never leave us! And, thus, I give to you the easiest, fastest sourdough pizza dough EVER.

This is an amazing way to use your sourdough discard; meaning you can use yesterday’s starter for pizza dough instead of tossing it in the trash. Or using it for brownies, because, why? Sourdough culture in brownies sounds worse than avocados. Uncool Instagram, uncool.

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The sourdough give the pizza dough an outstanding flavor! You know how pizza dough often just tastes like the sum of its parts? Kinda bland? More like a vehicle of cheese transportation than a flavorful component of the dish itself?

This crust will transform your whole pizza experience! When flavor is built on top of flavor, you get the pizza equivalent of a nuclear missile verses a sparkler left over from 4^th of July 1992. Dud.

It’s chewy and crispy in all the right places! Don’t believe me, check it out for yourself.

Sure it take a little planning but you could make a double batch and keep two wrapped tightly in plastic wrap in the freezer! Just defrost and use.

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Sourdough Pizza Dough

Prep Time10 mins

Ingredients

100 grams 00 Flour Caputo
140 grams Bread Flour
6 grams Salt
12 grams Sugar
2 grams Dry Active Yeast
135 grams Water
20 grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil
150 grams Sourdough starter fed or unfed (discard)

Instructions

Oil a baking sheet or baking dish with canola oil. Set aside.
Fit a food processor with a blade, any blade. It doesn’t matter. Seriously.
Add 00 flour, bread flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Fix the top and pulse to combine the ingredients.
Combine the water, olive oil and starter. With the food processor running pour the wet ingredients through the feed tube. When I made it for the video I added the starter after the water and oil and it was something special trying to get it through the tube. Don’t be like me.
Allow the food processor to run until a ball forms and then let it run another 30 seconds. Stop the food processor.
Lightly flour a smooth surface. Don’t use too much. The dough isn’t that sticky.
Using a spatula, scrape all the dough onto the counter. With a bench scraper, divide it into two equal pieces.
Form each one into a ball by folding all four sides into the center. Flip it over seam-side down. Tighten the ball by pulling the dough towards you, rotating and then pulling to towards you again. You can also shape it using the bench scraper. Just watch my video on youtube!
Place each ball on the oiled sheet. Rub some oil on the top of the dough. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator.
Refrigerate 24-72 hours. The longer it sits, the more the flavor will develop.
Before you use it, take the dough out of the refrigerator and let it sit at room temperature for 2-4 hours. Make that pizza!!!!

Notes

Makes 2, 14 inch pizzas

If you don’t have 00 flour, you can use all bread flour.

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Get your own sourdough starter going!

With this easy to follow sourdough starter recipe you can be making fresh sourdough bread from your own starter in just five days!

Or make some bread!!!

This Sourdough Raisin Bread is soft, chewy, buttery and packed full of raisins in every bite!

One Pan Roasted Lemon Chicken Dinner

April 16, 2020

This easy, one pan roasted lemon chicken dinner is made in one baking dish! The vegetables are baked in chicken stock with the chicken perched right on top! Everything bakes together into one easy, delicious meal!

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I unabashedly love chicken even though it is the least cool of all the proteins. So much so people have joked that I am a chicketarian.

This recipe is amazing because it combines all my loves in one simple dinner: chicken, roasted vegetables, and as few dishes to wash as possible!

There are some optional flavor enhancers that will take this from “just a roasted chicken” to a weeknight dinner that feels really special. The kind of special that makes you forget that you are in quarantine where wine is a life-line and working out is confined to a yoga mat and a stack of books masquerading as a “heavy weight”.
That kind of special. Trust me.

Buuuut, oh yes here is the catch, that kind of special requires another step or two and another pan or two. 100% worth it and still just as easy.

Let me break down the wow-factor for you: take all the liquid from the roasting dish (stock, chicken drippings, seasonings, butter, love) pour into a pan on the stove and make a pan sauce. Oh, pan sauce, that sounds fancy. Don’t let restaurants fool you! All you need to do is reduce that liquid and then add a bit of lemon juice at the end to finish it. Taste it for salt. Pour over your chicken and let the accolades roll in.

This easy, one pan roasted lemon chicken dinner is made in one baking dish! The vegetables are baked in chicken stock with the chicken perched right on top! Everything bakes together into one easy, delicious meal!

The second optional flavor enhancer is dumping all those beautifully cooked vegetables onto a preheated baking sheet and then popping them back in the oven to get a bit of crunch on the outside. What is one extra dish to wash in the name of beautifully caramelized veggies?!

Just to nail home how easy this meal really is, I filmed a video. Full disclosure it was filmed about 15 months ago and then the restaurants got really busy and time ran away from me.

It’s a good thing this chicken is just as good now as it was then! I make this about once a week and it never disappoints!

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5 from 2 votes

One Pan Roasted Lemon Chicken Dinner

This easy, one pan roasted lemon chicken dinner is made in one baking dish! The vegetables are baked in chicken stock with the chicken perched right on top! Everything bakes together into one easy, delicious meal!

Ingredients

2 Lemons The juice from one lemon will be used in the pan sauce
8 Medium Potatoes I use various colors
1 cup Cherry tomatoes
2 onions
3 cloves Garlic
3 Medium Carrots peeled or unpeeled
2 sprigs Rosemary
6 sprigs thyme
2 sprigs oregano
1 Whole Chicken
2 cups Chicken stock
2 tbsp Butter, unsalted (28 g)
salt
pepper

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Cut up all vegetables into approximately ½ – ¾ inch pieces. As long as the potatoes are roughly the same size, all is good. Place them in a 2 ½quart baking dish, or whatever you have. You just want it to be small enough that you have a good 2 inches of vegetables on which to place your chicken.This will keep them from cooking too fast.
Pick and chop the rosemary and oregano, toss on top of the vegetables.Add the picked thyme, black pepper and a generous three-finger pinch of salt or two.
Zest one lemon over the vegetables. Set aside to juice for the pan sauce if making.
I like to give the vegetables a stir at this point.
Working gently remove the skin from the breast of the chicken. Start towards the larger end of the breast and work your finger between the skin and the breast. I make a little windshield wiper motion with my finger as I slowly detach the skin all the way down. Once it has been detached, slide the lemon rings between the skin and breast.
Thinly slice half of the other lemon into rings. Squeeze the uncut half over the vegetables and then put the squeezed lemon inside the body cavity of the chicken. Waste not, want not!
Truss the chicken (my video can help!), place on top of the vegetables.
Sprinkle salt on the chicken skin and then bake in preheated oven until the chicken registers 165°F in the thickest part of the thigh. The time will vary greatly depending on the size of your chicken but will most like beat least an hour.
In the last 15 minutes of the chicken cooking place a baking sheet in the oven to preheat if you are going to finish your veggies in the oven.
Let the chicken rest 10 minutes before serving. If you are not going to make a pan sauce, dinner is ready! If you are, then keep going.You have to let the chicken rest anyways…you might as well make a sauce while you wait!
Pour the remaining liquid from the baking dish into a medium sauté pan. Reduce liquid until it has a sauce-like consistency, approximately 2-3minutes. It will run off your spoon and coat it rather than just pouring off like water.
While your sauce reduces, pour the vegetables onto the pre-heated baking sheet and place them back into the oven.

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Oh so you are a chicketarian too?! Welcome to the scrumptious club! There is a lot more where this one pan roasted lemon chicken came from.

AHC is brimming with chicken recipes like this Thai Peanut Chicken Noodle Stir-fry or this easy tomato chicken bake or maybe a saucy favorite

Cherry Preserves Ricotta Toast

August 19, 2018

These Cherry Preserves are quick and easy! There is just one simple addition that makes them tower over all the rest! Stock up on Summer’s bounty and enjoy all year! I spread mine on black pepper honey ricotta toast for an easy snack or breakfast.

I can’t eat cherry preserves with a spoon. That guilty pleasure is reserved for Nutella, peanut butter, and pasta sauce. (Oh, so that last one is weird?! Judgy)

So what to do with all the cherry preserves? Spoon a generous amount over black pepper honey ricotta on sourdough toast! Obviously.

You could use regular ricotta…but I’m Extra and I mixed mine up with some fresh cracked black pepper and a dollop of local honey. I keep a pre-sliced loaf of homemade sourdough in my freezer for just these moments. This particular batch was Smoked Paprika Sourdough. Imagine all those flavors marrying in your mouth…yup a little bit of heaven.

Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad

August 11, 2018

There is nothing better than taking all of Summer’s bounty and throwing it into an easy, no-oven salad! This Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad is at once familiar and comforting with a hint of the unexpected!

I live here now.

But actually! Lol. Summer hits the NYC farmer’s markets and I just can’t stop.

All the berries, all the heirloom tomatoes, all the peaches, nectarines and cherries!

Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl

July 31, 2018

This Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl has nutty millet, grilled red onions, charred shallots, spicy corn, grilled chicken, fresh cherries, creamy Burrata and a bright cherry vinaigrette! It’s the summer bowl to eat on repeat!

Tired of quinoa? Ha! Never!

But today I introduce to you a new ancient whole grain: millet.

Mill-eh what?

Chipotle Chorizo Tacos

June 16, 2017

These Chipotle Chorizo Tacos are smoky, spicy and complex! The homemade sweet potato tortilla tempers the spice with a little bit of sweetness and a mezcal lime slaw brightens the flavors and pulls the whole taco together!

Oh, hey! Remember me?

Anyone who is a chef or a food blogger knows that each takes a specific type of creativity, passion and dedication to constantly improving, learning and being on the forefront. And that kind of passion and dedication is all-consuming. There isn’t a day where I don’t miss writing, photographing and connecting with readers and fellow bloggers. I have made some life-long friendships and heard some heart-warming stories along the way, but, ultimately, I had to choose. And I chose being a chef.

This isn’t a “Goodbye Post”. It’s more of an acknowledgement that I fell off the face of the Earth.

I don’t even know where to start. I could just gloss over my actual life and pretend like it wasn’t turned upside-down four times in the past 2 years, but that seems disingenuous.

Rather, I would like to take you on that crazy, tumultuous, rollercoaster of a journey. Gradually.

I’ll need you to be patient because updating a blog when you’re working 12-16 hour days, 6 days a week is a formidable task.

My life is like one of those novels that jumps entire chapters between characters and it isn’t until half-way through when all the stories intertwine into one cohesive plot that not only makes sense, but leaves you craving more. More.

Umm speaking of more…perhaps you are here for the tacos? [Like that segue?]

No shame in that. Tacos are pretty much my answer to all life’s problems.

Well, tacos and rosé. (Not together. Everyone knows tacos call for cervesa or mezcal margaritas. Duh.)

My “Taco Tuesday” is more like Taco “Any day that ends in ‘y’”. Just sayin’

Spring Asparagus Orange Farro Salad

April 26, 2016

In this Asparagus Orange Farro Salad boiled new potatoes, crispy raw asparagus, chewy farro, peppery scallions, salty feta and crispy bacon all get tossed in a bright orange vinaigrette for a mouthful of Spring flavors!

Alternate Title: “Spring in a Bowl”.

The orange vinaigrette is bright and basically liquid happiness and sunshine right there on a salad. It’s healthy and light, yet filling enough to power you through the day.

Pretty much everything you need for Spring…except the new shoes and purse(s).

Oh and I invited bacon to the party because…

Because I don’t need a reason; it’s bacon.

I mainly eat vegetarian (Yes, I know bacon isn’t vegetarian. Calm down.) because I work in a steakhouse and there is meat everywhere, but this salad would be AH-mazing with my Foolproof Rosemary Chicken. Amazing.

I also slice some avocados on top for a little extra healthy fat and protein. Plus anyone who knows me knows that avocados are my everything.

You can make all the components of this salad ahead of time and just assemble it for an easy lunch, light dinner or fabulous party side dish.

Savory Butternut Squash Carrot Tart

February 5, 2016

In this savory Butternut Squash Carrot Tart, carrots and butternut squash are roasted with Harissa and Hungarian paprika then covered in caramelized onions, and baked to custardy perfection in a whole-wheat tart shell. All topped with sage browned butter.

A savory tart? After all the sinfully sweet fruit and nut pies that have been appearing from my kitchen over the past few weeks, you might be inclined to run over here and take my temperature.

I can assure you I am doing just fine. You can find me curled up with a good book, a bright kale salad, and a generous slice of this savory tart. It is comfort food that will warm you up from the inside out.

The whole-wheat crust is delicate all-butter perfection (huh? Did I say this was healthy? Puh-lease.); the lightly spiced butternut carrot custard is smooth and creamy; the caramelized onions add texture and a slightly sweet component; and the sage browned butter, well, that is one for the record books.

The sage browned butter compliments the lightly spiced vegetables and caramelized onions in an explosion of savory flavors that is perfection itself.

All the flavors seamlessly blend together in each bite so magically it will have you reaching for your rolling pin instead of your Seamless app. Trust me, I know.

Buffalo Chicken Blue Cheese Hand Pies

October 20, 2015

These Buffalo Chicken Blue Cheese Hand Pies have all the flavor of buffalo chicken wings and blue cheese stuffed inside a buttery pastry baked to flakey perfection.

Mmmm flakey perfection.

Get it girl.

Or should I say boy? Because that’s what we are celebrating here! David from Spiced is having a little baby boy, and these hand pies are my contribution to his MANLY baby shower.

David and I go way back. I love me some Spiced.

He is my go-to resource for “man-food”. He tosses around buffalo sauce, bacon and all things grilled like it ain’t no thang.

But it also always has a refined twist. It’s not just grilled meat on a plate caveman style. No, no. Everything he makes is beautiful and, yet, appeals to the tastebuds of those with a y-chromosome. {If it’s been awhile since High School biology, that is nerd speak for “men” 😉 }

All I can say is that this baby is one lucky taste-tester!

Tasked with creating man-food that was David-worthy, I had a momentary freakout and then remembered buffalo wings. Is there anything more manly than buffalo chicken wings? Psh. No.

Fine motorcycles, but those aren’t edible.

So I wrapped up all that manly flavor in a beautifully flaky, all-butter pâte brisée, which is fancy French for “pie crust”. {Not literally, but we can talk more about that some other time…today is about David…and mini David.}

Roasted Honey Orange Brussels Sprouts Wild Rice Salad

July 28, 2015

Crispy roasted honey Brussels sprouts and leaks are tossed with wild rice, kale, feta cheese and a honey orange dressing for the perfect side dish or meal!

These roasted Brussels sprouts and leeks are my everything right now.

I can eat an entire pan without blinking.
The crispy pieces of honey leek and Brussels sprouts are like candy to me. A salty, sweet addicting candy.

And I don’t even like Brussels sprouts.

The sad thing is that I am not exaggerating. I have to put away the extra roasted veggies or I will eat each and every last one, and then I will have no lunch for the next day.

This is such an easy side dish or, if you add a layer of spinach, shredded raw cabbage, and my favorite 10-minute chicken, it becomes the most fabulous salad! And I should know…

Because I’ve been eating this on repeat for several weeks now! I may have learned how to make unimaginable things out of sugar, but I still eat the same thing everyday for months on end. A tigress cannot change her stripes.