Ivy on November 29th, 2009

Another thing we tried, while in Rome was Calzone.

Although I had heard of calzone,  I thought it would be much smaller and  imagined it to be something like a turnover with phyllo pastry, similar to the Greek bourekia otherwise called Kaltsounia in Crete (do you see any similarities in the name?).  However, kaltsounia are totally [...]

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Ivy on November 26th, 2009

I was really curious to try an original Italian Pizza when we were in Rome, but I must say I was rather disappointed.    Unfortunately we did not have the luxury of time to try everything we wanted, as after walking for hours and hours every day, when it was lunch time and were feeling really [...]

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Ivy on November 24th, 2009

I have a few pizza recipes to share with you, as well as a couple of calzone recipes I made recently using the same dough, so before giving the recipes here is the dough I use.
I’ve been making pizzas for many years but this is my best pizza dough.  My friends and relatives say that [...]

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