This basic pizza dough recipe will make enough for one large pizza or two smaller 10-inch pizzas. You can also use it to make our addictively good Skillet Monkey Bread with Garlic Butter. While you can make this dough by hand, it’s much easier to prepare with a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook.
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Basic Pizza Dough
Alamo Springs Café’s Roasted Garlic Crostini with Goat Cheese
This simple appetizer from Alamo Springs Café in Fredericksburg looks impressive, but it’s quite simple to make. It’s a real conversation starter that gets your guests involved in squeezing and spreading that sweet, buttery garlic from the bulb onto freshly toasted bread. This recipe calls for basil powder to be sprinkled on the crostini. It […]
Marinated Spanish Olives
Warm marinated olives are perhaps one of the easiest, but most elegant party bites you can serve. Heating the olives in oil with aromatics like garlic and citrus peel makes them plump and even more flavorful. While you can use almost any mix of olives here, we like the combo of buttery, mild Castelvetranos with […]
Pignetti’s Salmon Alejandro
The salmon Alejandro from Pignetti’s in Temple, Texas, is an impressive dish you can feel good about devouring. Salmon is one of the healthiest proteins to work into your diet. It’s rich in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, as well as potassium and B vitamins. One 8-ounce salmon fillet will fill you up and only contains […]
Armadillo Palace’s Carne Asada
This carne asada from Armadillo Palace in Houston is loaded with flavor. The origins of this dish, popular in Northern Mexico, come from field-tilling discs on tractors. Those discs, shaped like Chinese woks, were repurposed as pans in which to cook. Discada usually consists of beef, peppers, onions, lime juice, garlic and tomatoes. It can […]
Savor’s Mussels Provençal
This classic mussel dish is from Savor in San Antonio, where culinary school students get a hands-on fine-dining experience in the kitchen.
Grape Juice’s Crackeroni
Grape Juice in Kerrville is a charming wine bistro in the Hill Country that prides itself on cooking up "things you know … with a twist." This craveable mac and cheese was named "Crackeroni" by guests and is amped up with smoked Gouda cheese.
El Toro Mexican Restaurant’s Cabo Salad
In this recipe from El Toro in Houston we call for chicken, but you can also use shrimp, beef fajita meat or a combination of your choice.
King’s BierHaus’ Austrian Potato Salad
Helen Greek Food and Wine’s Pumpkin Moussaka
Sysco Foodie’s Shakshuka Breakfast Pizza
Have you ever had pizza for breakfast? We’re not talking about a leftover slice from the fridge, but a fresh pie topped with all of your breakfast favorites? This recipe from Chef Neil Doherty, Senior Director of Culinary Development in Sysco Houston, perfectly melds Middle Eastern and Italian flavors and tops it off with golden sunny-side-up eggs.
Sysco Central Texas’ Shrimp Pasta
Shrimp is such a versatile protein. It’s mild in flavor and soaks up any seasoning or sauce it is immersed in. For a simple weeknight dinner, Chef Dustin Alexander at Sysco Central Texas, is sharing a recipe for a delicious Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta. Made with plump Blue Diamond shrimp, fresh tomatoes, garlic and Kalamata olives, […]
Sysco’s Pistachio-Crusted Snapper with Harissa Beurre Blanc
Don Carr, the Executive Chef at Sysco Central Texas, is sharing a recipe for a crispy Pistachio Crusted Red Snapper. To go with it, he’s also making a Harissa Beurre Blanc sauce and Sweet Potato and fire-roasted Corn Hash that’ll make for a perfect weeknight dinner.
Esquire Tavern’s Green Pea Hummus
Spring peas are sweet and bursting from the ground, so turn them into this bright green silky hummus. This recipe comes together in 10 minutes, and it tastes so much better than any store-bought variety. Esquire Tavern in San Antonio serves theirs with a spread of pickled vegetables, so get creative with your spread of […]