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Pizza Dough

I've tried lots of bread recipes. And a good many of them have been for Italian-style breads — most importantly, pizza dough. Good homemade pizza partly comes from a good dough and partly from how you bake it. I've found that a bread stone and wood on my gas grill are the best baking media; this is the best dough recipe. It is based upon a recipe I found online for the dough from Roberta's of Bushwick, Brooklyn. It deviates in its use of more olive oil and an altered preparation.

Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday March 5, 2016
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Pumpkin Spice Scones

Why is it that no recipe seems to call for a whole can of pumpkin purée? The big question when making anything with pumpkin in it is: "so what else do I make to use up this stuff?" How 'bout a slightly sweet, mildly spiced scone with cinnamon chips? Add a cup of hot coffee and you've got breakfast.

Written by Jeff Frey on Sunday October 30, 2016
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Pumpkin Streusel Breakfast Muffins

In my recipe for pumpkinified ozark pudding I mentioned having bought a sugar pumpkin to shred. That recipe uses just a fraction of the whole, so after vacuum-sealing four bags of 140 g of the shredded pumpkin, I had some chunks and shreds left. So I roasted the remnants in the oven then pureed with a little water. But what to do with about 1 cup of fresh pumpkin puree? I googled the term "pumpkin muffin cheerios" and this was the mashup of various recipes and riffing that resulted. NOTE: Cheerios streusel absorbs moisture really fast and I decided to remove that ingredient after making these once.

Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday October 25, 2025
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

My mom makes fantastic homemade chocolate whoopie pies. One day we had pumpkin pancakes for dinner and I found myself with just shy of 1 cup of pumpkin purée left over — what to do? I found a recipe online for pumpkin whoopie pies. It needed to be altered slightly to scale down to the amount of homemade pumpkin purée, and I wanted to use my mom's cream filling recipe.

Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday October 8, 2022
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