Pasta & Pizza
Pasta & Pizza

Pasta & Pizza

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Smoked Salmon and Mascarpone Calzone

This recipe was inspired by a recent visit to Piroshky Piroshky, the small, wonderful-smelling Russian bakery in the Pike Place market. They make some of my favorite street food, and I can’t make a trip to Pike Place without stopping by for a snack. On my latest trip, I tried their salmon paté piroshky (a piroshky is a stuffed, flaky, handheld pie) and it was divine. This “calzone” doesn’t attempt to recreate the salmon piroshky, but was simply inspired by it. The mascarpone cheese melts away during baking, leaving the rich smoked salmon moist and delicious.

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Stuffed Chicken Breast with Brown Butter and Roasted Corn Gnocchi

A few weeks ago I ate at Crow, a fantastic little restaurant in my neighborhood. The served a gnocchi with brown butter, roasted corn and morel mushrooms that blew my mind. Honestly, it was so good that I would have kept eating until I developed a food hernia, had there not been a finite portion before me. Here’s my version, topped with a Boursin- and wild mushroom-stuffed chicken breast.

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Go Grill a Pizza

If you asked me my favorite thing about summer, you could be sure that my answer would involve the words “grilling” and “pizza”. Grilled pizza is an excellent easy supper, especially when you’re cooking with friends. Go get some pre-made, uncooked dough and a few of your favorite ingredients and dive head-first into your relationship with the grill. In the pizza above, a simple red sauce, some prosciutto, porcini mushrooms and fresh mozzarella make a great dinner. Or, if you’re feeling less traditional, try out my other grilled pizza suggestions.