Tonight I made ham and cheese wontons. They weren’t bad, but I doubt I experiment with that again. No matter how much you try to stuff into them, it’s never enough. I’d be better off getting a ham and cheese hot pocket. But at least I gave it a shot.
I may [...]

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In keeping with my Italian cooking theme lately, for the last two nights I’ve experimented with gnocchi, an Italian pasta much like a dumpling. I was inspired by Giada de Laurentiis, who made some sort of cinnamon-sugar sauce to cover her gnocchi. Here’s what it looked like:

It wasn’t great, so I thought that [...]

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Tonight, I made lasagna for the first time. I added too much ricotta to the whole thing, and my meat sauce wasn’t nearly saucy enough. Also, I need to back off the thyme, basil, and oregano, and remember not to fill the dish to the top, or it’ll end up an inch too [...]

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Tonight I made two more pizzas, although I used the same amount of dough I did last night. These are for a semester-end party. I think it still turned out well.

Above you see the cheese pizza. Like last night, it’s got alfredo sauce, oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, parmesean, mozarella, romano, and [...]

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