So what do you do with a leftover portion of pizza dough, a pretty big chunk of Gorgonzola cheese leftover from a dinner party, and 5 leftover buffalo wings?

You caramelize an onion, shape the dough, and make yourself a buffalo chicken pizza.


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Mileage: 8.4 miles ( Read more... )

This one was mostly for my Bangor friends, who tend to be raging wine nerds like me. I'd been wanting to throw this party for over a year, but wanted to wait until I could host it at my own place. Andrea, who among my Portland friends is by far the one who is into wine the most, was also in attendance, as she had expressed interest in trying some ( Read more... )

So I'm making something a bit, uh, extravagant for a weeknight tonight. There's a reason, though. You see, I'm hosting a pretty serious wine-geek dinner this Saturday for 6 other people, and I told them that I may be making Ossobuco. The thing is, I've never made it before ( Read more... )

I sure do wish there were something bigger to hike within an hour's drive from Portland, but for those days where I want to get a decent hike in, but also want to sleep in and not get home too late, this is the only real choice ( Read more... )

Friday: went to movie night with some friends, and watched an older film, The Scarlet and the Black. Very good. Scarfed out on Amato's pizza, too ( Read more... )

So, I made fresh pasta with my kitchenaid mixer for the first time last night ( Read more... )

Periodically, I make up a big batch of pasta sauce so I have some around whenever I feel like making pasta. I freeze it in batches, and each portion yields about 2 servings when I thaw it out. I'm made my last batch in late September, and I'm down to my last portion of it. As I'm planning to make fresh pasta soon, now that I have the roller ( Read more... )

Well I'm back at work after having spent a very fun weekend, almost constantly in the company of friends ( Read more... )

Well, I'd been planning to go hiking on New Year's Day, as it's an otherwise idle day off in the middle of the week, and tried rather hard to recruit interested parties ( Read more... )