Pita Pizza – Another Quick, Weekday Meal

By David Hu
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I’ve noticed a pattern with my cooking over the years. I usually start off the week all gung ho about cooking. On Monday I’m experimenting with a new recipe, or making an old favorite with 20 ingredients, multiple steps and four hours of cook time. Yay! So exciting and full of energy!

But after a few days, my enthusiasm wanes and I can’t even remember what possessed me to make those complicated dishes earlier in the week.

Wednesday is hump day and by then, my cooking ambition has evaporated. That’s when I turn to my storehouse of quick and easy weekday meals. My requirements to get into this rotation are simple: tastes good, needs few ingredients and requires short prep and cook times.

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I Heart Carbs

By Katie Barreira

Like the allure of meat on meat (think bacon burger), one carbohydrate can only improve with the addition of another. Strangely enough, it was during a starch-starved year in San Francisco, where no excess of sushi or burritos could curb my hankering for a decent slice of pie and a boiled bagel, that I discovered the ultimate carb combo: potato pizza. The tough-crusted wedge may not have scratched my East Coast itch, but it securely rooted the idea of tubers on toast.

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Cheat It Pizza for Two

By Lori Powell

So a friend calls and says that she is in the neighborhood, possibly 15 minutes away, and was just a wondering if she could stop by and…it’s lunch time! What to do????

Do not panic! Certainly it’s not worth it. It’s not hard to have something delicious on the table when a friend drops by.

My Cheat It Pizza is not only super-tasty but great for a late-night, quick-fix dinner or after-party snack when you just didn’t have enough time to eat, since you were too busy chatting everyone up. Or maybe you just are not good at eating and talking at the same time!

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