Pasta Fritta or Gnocco Fritto

Mmmmmm, fried dough. One of my favorite meals as a kid and how I learned to love pepperoncinis. It’s a love story. Gnocco fritto or pas fritta as my grandpa used to refer to it—Italian grandpas always shorten the names of certain foods. It took me forever to find the actual name of this Modenese …

Small Batch Brioche Buns

For all you single folks or small families. This recipe is for you! I mean why do they sell such massive amounts of bread in the store? They need a grocery store for single people. With everything half size! If, like me, you are trapped inside due to the coronavirus and want to eat a …

Dreamy Dinner Rolls

These rolls are so awesome right out of the oven! So soft and delicious. Adding cream and butter really sets these buns apart (that’s what she said). This recipe came about because I realized I didn’t have any milk, but I did have heavy whipping cream. So I figured, what the heck, I’ll just use …

Simple and Easy Focaccia Recipe

Why make your own focaccia? It’s about the bragging rights of course! Just kidding, the answer is because it’s tasty. Besides who doesn’t like know that if worst come to worst, society shuts down, and humanity spins into chaos… At least someone will know how to make bread! Tasty bread at that! Oops, did I …

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Chocolate + banana bread? What’s not to like? Yes, yes, there are banana bread purists out there, I know—I was one of them. Plain banana bread with spices or a crumble topping was as far as I’d go. Thing is, I had some bananas that needed to be used and a mad chocolate craving. So …

Sicilian Style Pizza

Thick, tasty focaccia like pizza covered in cheese and tomato sauce. The crust is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. It’s not really like a pizza, but more like a bread. The ingredients are flipped as well. Cheese goes down first and is topped with the pizza sauce. Why? I have no …

Make Your Own Bread Bowl

Yes, you CAN make your own bread bowl at home! It’s really not as hard as it seems. It’s a great addition to any creamy soup on a cold and depressing winter night. You’ll pass right out after eating it! Seriously, that’s a lot of food, takes soup with bread to a whole new level. …

Basic Pizza Dough

Now you may not have a pizza oven, but you can still enjoy some really good pizza at home. The ingredients that make up a pizza are pretty simple, but together they transform into something so good I’m drooling just thinking about it. Making pizza dough seems harder than it really is. The worst part …

Make Ahead Cinnamon Rolls

Is there anything better than cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing? I thought I knew how good there were, but I didn’t know anything until I made them myself from scratch. Those little tubes from the grocery store? I can’t ever buy them again. I AM RUINED because of this recipe. RUINED. This recipe is …