Culinary Circle

First off Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is the best Italian cookbook. She is a bit snobby about fresh ingredients and such but just ignore it and use frozen spinach and canned artichokes or whatever and the dishes still come out delicious. She's also big on the pancetta, which is hard to find but you can just substitute bacon! The cookbook is also in our favorite format, lots of info and stories to go along with the recipes, so you can sit down and read bits here and there as you please.

Tonight we used her recipe for pizza. Homemade dough with a simple cooked down tomato sauce (no spices just a bit of olive oil) basil, mozzarella and Parmesan along with other toppings as you choose, perfect!

Cook-Mykal
Time-4 hours, mostly just rising time for the dough