I love this so much that I make it at least twice a month. I do add grated cheddar cheese and olive oil on top, but basically make it as shown here.
The pizza looks great! These days, I generally prefer white pizzas without tomato sauce, so this one fits perfectly. I can also envision it with some meats or fish on it. The crust looks to be excellent, too.
I have minor arthritis in my legs which can bother me when it is damp. Avocados are natures most powerful pain reliever, and I *SWEAR* that eating avocados takes my pain away within an hour 100%. Here is the recipe that I use for my avocado dip.
I absolutely love avocado's! The dip looks great! My wife has arthritis (and other issues) and she follows a doctor who offers dietary advice to avoid a lot of foods and focus on eating certain other foods. Avocados are a key component of his diet. She swears by it and any time she is feeling worse than usual, she goes back on the diet. I will say that I do not understand the trend of avocado toast. Kind of a weird breakfast combination to me, but it is very popular these days.
As we near the holidays, of course, I begin to think about fruitcake again. Have not yet found a reliable source of really good fruitcake, but it is probably all about the journey, anyway. I do have a new one to mention: The good news: it is an excellent fruit cake that is simply chock-full of candied fruits. So much so, that it makes the cake kind of crumbly with pieces of candied fruit. This makes it ideal for me, a candied fruit lover. The bad news: the first bite of the first slice included a few small pieces of hard nut shell (probably pecan.) Have had multiple slices since then and all was good. But, I am still a little wary on each slice. Pity, because this could otherwise be a go-to for me. Of course, with time and if there are no other incidents, it might just earn a top spot on the shelf.
Alas, I do not bake. I am held captive by the forces of the fruitcake commercial market. I would omit the nuts but otherwise the recipe looks good, as does the finished product.
The problem is that you kept on using your Gorden Ramsey Model tinfoil hat. When you had that on you would scream and shout at everybody, throw things, and generally flip out. If you would simply switch to your Julia Child Model tinfoil hat there would be peace in the kitchen, and you would soon learn how to bake.
Just wait until we are finished researching and designing the Guy Fieri Triple D tinfoil hat with the Flavortown chinstrap. The R&D department have all gained five pounds, on average, working in the lab on this.
Nobody in the whole world likes fruitcake. When I was at Bible college many years ago, some students used "fruitcake" as a playful slur to "insult" each other. Anyway... What are your personal Christmas favorites (other than fruitcake) @jrbiz that others can actually eat too? We used to roast a ham every year until we all realized we don’t really like it that much. Any main dish suggestions? .
LOL, I realize that I am very alone in my love of fruitcake. As a kid, we had a repeat of Thanksgiving every Christmas because turkey and all of the trimmings were served again. However, these days, our Christmas dinner is not set in stone. We usually go out for Chinese food on Christmas Eve (just like New Year's Eve), but the meal on Christmas Day can range from beef stroganoff to roast pork to lasagna. This year, my wife is going to make a white lasagna. I would prefer it to be made with sausage, but that will not work for everyone, so the meat in the lasagna will likely be chicken and she may make a separate one without meat at all. It is a white sauce because both my son and I are not big on tomato sauce. Garlic bread and other sides are likely. My wife really likes sweet potatoes, so I would not be surprised to see them in the mix. On the dessert side of things, my wife's Christmas cookies are always a big hit (sugar cookies with frosting.) I also will hope to see a chocolate cream pie and iced brownies. My late mother used to make the best pineapple cheesecakes and banana cream pies, but have not had them in years. Fortunately, no matter what the others plow into, I always have a steady fallback that no one else touches: fruitcake.
They look good! And a nice size, too. Though, I generally do not like the hard candy decorations added at the end. I like my Christmas cookies chewy without the added crunchiness.
Those are some solid choices. Speaking of Chinese food, one Chinese carry-out restaurant here had wonderful food until one day we ordered something and some of the chicken (I forget exactly what it was) didn't smell fresh. Fast forward a few weeks: we ordered again, and something else didn't quite taste fresh. My wife might make scalloped potatoes (they do involve some ham, but I'm okay with that). She also makes the best desserts of any kind, my absolute favorite are her buckeyes. They're really good. .
Had to look up buckeyes, as I had never heard of them. If you like chocolate dipped peanut butter balls, you should check out the oversized Reese's peanut butter cups I posted about on this thread a couple of weeks ago.
My wife's buckeyes ingredients: Pure peanut butter, pure chocolate, pure sugar, and rice crispies (for texture). Store bought peanut butter cups: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Milk Fat, Lactose, Lecithin (Soy)) Peanuts Sugar Dextrose Salt TBHQ (to maintain freshness) Citric Acid (to maintain freshness) PGPR (Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate) - "cancer in a cup"