Monthly Archives: July 2013

Pizza, Baseball, and Good Neighbors

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TGIF everyone!!! I have been meaning to share this with you all day and finally just got everything ready to go. I promise to keep this short, sweet, and simple. Like me. Well, I’m not so short …

Last night was a very good night. I needed to use up some things in fridge, and I had plans to baptize the new ice cream machine with some peachy goodness. The menu ended up rounding out a little something like this:

We had homemade pizza — sauce and dough recipes.

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We had homemade peach ice cream and homemade poundcake.

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We had a visitor. Our neighbor, Miss Deborah Kaye, stopped by.

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AND … the GIANTS WON last night!!! FINALLY!!! I am cautiously optimistic again. Life is good. Here’s hoping for another win tonight … and here’s to the weekend!

ICE CREAM … sorry for yelling

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I do apologize for yelling the headline but I am crazy excited about a new culinary toy we got today … an ice cream machine. We have been looking at them off and on for awhile, and yesterday I texted David after hearing about a recipe for vanilla frozen yogurt being made on one of the Food Network morning shows; I said, “We need an ice cream machine.” The only criteria was that we needed to get the best price which meant I needed to do price comparison between a two specific stores, Costco and Tuesday Morning. I thought I had done my homework and purchased one I found at Tuesday Morning here in Redwood City. What I forgot to check was differences in models, I didn’t realize my mistake until I got it home and did the model comparison online. What I ended up buying was a 1.5 quart machine for the same price as a 2 quart machine at Costco. This morning I took the 1.5 quart machine back for a refund and went directly to Costco and got the 2 quart machine. Let the ice cream, yogurt, and sorbet making begin!!! Recipes and photos to come.

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Did I mention that 10am, or shortly after, on a weekday, is a great time to go to Costco? It is. There are very people in the store and the lines to check out are short.

At long last … welcome.

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Time to finally throw this out into the universe. Welcome to Bear In The Pantry.

A lot of new content will be added over the days and weeks ahead to help round out the categories. For now there are only a handful of recipes as I am still figuring out the easiest way to publish everything. Putting together this blog has been an incredible learning experience both on technical and culinary levels.

I hope you, the awesome person who stopped by to check this out, enjoy your time here. Please stop by often.

The Awesome Gut Bomb for Lunch

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The cheesesteak. There is no disputing how incredible this sandwich is, especially if done right and with the best ingredients. Within a few miles of where we live is one of our favorite places to grab one of these awesome food coma delights. This place is Jersey Joe’s in San Carlos, CA.

I work from home pretty much exclusively and David works from home often. Most days that he’s home we do lunch together. Today, was one of those days. While in transit to some burger joint David had the great idea of going to Jersey Joe’s. Why not? We’d be getting a much better meal for the same price as most burger joints and this is food that stays with you, you won’t be hungry soon after devouring a whole sandwich and fries.

My choice today was the pepperoni pizza cheesesteak with grilled onions. OMGoodness!!! Words can’t describe how great this was, at least for me. And to add more flavor to things I had to skip the ketchup for the fries and go straight for the BBQ sauce. I was impressed. It was sweet and smoky, just right for my intentions. Here is the before, I’ll save you after … it’s never pretty. 🙂

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