Pizza and Ice Cream

Piece Brewery & Pizzeria, http://www.piecechicago.com has a different way of making and serving pizza.

They have three styles.
Red: traditional tomato sauce and mozzarella pizza (BBQ sauce also available), Plain: traditional New Haven pizza, a generous amount of red sauce topped with garlic, extra Parmesan and olive oil (This pizza does not have mozzarella.) White: plain crust brushed with olive oil, diced garlic and mozzarella cheese.

It's like a build your own pizza,  you order which sauce you would like then each topping you want.

We ordered a Red with pepperoni.

We ordered a Red with meatball, Giardinaire and garlic.

 We also ordered one with the white crust and chicken, mushrooms, spinach, garlic and artichoke hearts.

This pizza is very good, excellent crust and reheats extremely well!

Then we went to get some frozen custard. Never mind that it was 32 degrees with a wind chill of 26 by the time we got to Andy's. http://www.eatandys.com

Mine was supposed to be the Andy's Hot Fudge Sundae with Pecans but they did not put the pecans on it.
It was delicious any way!

A fun food filled day!

Birthday Adventure

My hubby's birthday was on Thanksgiving this year so we went out for his birthday the day after. Being the day after a major holiday when lots of things were closed we couldn't go to his favorite BBQ place (Smoque). They would have had to work the night before to make the BBQ!

So we went to Cemitas Puebla http://www.cemitaspuebla.com/  for a quick bit on the way to pizza!

I have blogged Cemitas Puebla before but I had something new and very, very good. Chalupas: five corn tortillas doused in salsa verde and salsa roja topped with onions, cheese and choice of meat. They are great especially the salsa verde ones!

Chalupas

 Atomica

Cemitas Atomica with Milanesa, Carne Enchilada and Jamon.

Milanesa

Cemitas Milanesa- breaded butterfly pork chop.

Taco Arebes

Taco Arebes- spit roasted pork and onions wrapped in a thick tortilla served with a chipotle salsa.

Then we went to Vito and Nick's for pizza.

Oh wait, on our way to Vito and Nick's we passed a Harold's Chicken Shack. I have been wanting to try Harold's fried chicken so my Husband stopped and we went in. This was a carry out only place. I don't know if all of them are carry out only or not this was our first one!

 

 

My Mother-in-Law really likes gizzards, so we got some gizzards and a white meat dinner.

Gizzards.

 All of it was very good. Nice light, crispy skin and not greasy.

Now on to the pizza! Vito and Nick's http://www.vitoandnick.com

Sausage Pizza

Pepperoni Pizza

 The crust was very good, nice crisp, thin crust.

This is a DDD restaurant. At this place when they put the pizza in they toss the pizza peal back to the other person.

So then we had to stop at Jimmy Jamm for some sweet potato pie! 

At Jimmy Jamm, one of my husband's favorites! 

A great way to end a birthday day out!



 

5 course New Years Eve Dinner

We decided to stay in for New Years Eve and do some cooking for close friends and family.

Appetizers: stuffed Peppadew Peppers (again if you have never tried these you really must!) stuffed with goat cheese, garlic and thyme and topped with walnuts; Calamari with aioli and spicy mayo.

Stuffed Peppadew Peppers

Calamari 

Calamari with the spicy mayo.

Soup Course: French Onion

This is America's Test Kitchen recipe and it is great an easy.

http://www.americastestkitchen.com/video/index.php?docid=24402&extcode=M**ASCA00 

 Third course: Lobster Linguine with Poblano Crema.

heating up the crema in the new toy my husband got for Christmas, an induction burner.

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Fourth Course: Rack of Lamb with Pesto Sauce and sauteed Green Beans.

Dessert: Fresh Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts with Chocolate sauce.

These were fabulous! They are made from canned biscuits and deep fried, then covered with cinnamon sugar and served with chocolate sauce. The chocolate sauce is Nutella and whipping cream heated to the thickness you want (it gets thicker as it cools).

even she's full and wiped out!

We all had a delicious time!