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Making Homemade New York(ish) Style Pizza for Pi Day
The kid was determined to eat round for March 14th. We’d already made a pair of fruit dessert pies for later, but she decided that pizza was on the menu. What better way to make use of one of those specialty cast iron pieces that doesn’t otherwise see much day-to-day use: the 14 inch pizza
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This is Pi Day
Any excuse to bake something, my pie skills are not top game but with the assistance of my daughter we managed to bake a pair of non-standard cast iron pies to celebrate the dad-jokiest of days. We doubled the recipe below to make a six inch mini (or as the teenager would have it, personal)
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Pi Day, Eve
We spent the evening making pies. Tomorrow is March 14th. It’s one of those “we celebrate the day because it’s funny“ kinda days. The third month. The fourteenth day. 3-14 3.14 Pi. π Pi day. Last year I bought a pie on my way back to my office after lunch. It was March 13th. I
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Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Flour Water Salt Yeast
So . . . I ordered yet another cookbook yesterday. I’ve recently been watching a cooking channel on YouTube (perhaps one you have heard of, unlikely one you figured I’d watch) and the host released a cookbook last year, so I splurged. Until a make a few recipes from the book itself, I don’t feel
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Gone Fishin’ (Part Zero)
A lot of my story-posts begin with “back when I was a kid” because back when I was a kid we did a lot of things that were low-cost, time-burning ways to entertain kids in the local wilderness, a lifestyle that appeals more and more to me as I get a bit older. So it