Fun Diego Family loves to cook and share recipes. Many recipes highlight some of our favorite cooking tools like sous vide, Big Green Egg and Instant Pot.
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Fun Diego Family loves pizza! We are on a quest to find the best pizza in San Diego. However, sometimes we get the urge to make our own pizza. This recipe is for a no cook tomato sauce for pizza. We use it for several pizzas we make including our Detroit Pizza, French Bread Pizza…
One of my son’s favorite snacks is what he calls “floppy pizza.” Basically this is a tortilla with pizza sauce and cheese. He likes it so much he asked for it for his 12th birthday dinner. This inspired me to introduce him to another quickie pizza dish, French Bread Pizza. French Bread Pizza is super…
Béchamel Sauce is a classic of French cooking. It can be used for many different dishes. This version I have developed is for use in our Lasagna Bolognese and Béchamel Sauce recipe. This lasagna is designed to be fairly dry so this Béchamel Sauce uses less milk than other recipes.
Lasagna is one of those dishes that has many different variations. Fun Diego Family has at least four versions of Lasagna we make. The best lasagna I have ever had was in Italy and it combined bolognese and béchamel Sauce. I have found several recipes, for this type of lasagna, my favorite being from the…
This is our recipe for Bolognese Sauce. I did a whole post on how I developed my Bolognese Sauce Recipe. This is something I have developed over many years based on my experiences with the real thing in Italy. As discussed in the introduction article, this my not be totally authentic, but I feel it…
Italian Bolognese Sauce is probably my favorite pasta sauce. I have tried the real thing in Italy and, on very rare occasions, at restaurants in the United States. Unfortunately, what generally passes for bolognese sauce in America is simply plain old meat sauce. Over the years I have developed my own Bolognese Sauce recipe and…
I discovered Detroit pizza in 2016 and it has quickly become one of my favorites. This is a thick crust, square pizza where the sauce is on top of the cheese. For a complete guide to this style of pizza and my experiments at making it go here. This is a Detroit Pizza recipe which…
It was fairly late in life that I found out that some of the best pizza in the world comes from Detroit, Michigan. It seems Detroit-style pizza is starting to catch on in a big way and I am firmly on the bandwagon. This post describes my discovery of this pizza style and provides our…
I love seafood. My family has a long history in the California tuna industry. Unfortunately, my husband is not so fond of seafood so I don’t get to cook it as much as I would like. Thank goodness my kids like fish. This Lemon Glazed Salmon Recipe, is a huge hit with the kids and…
In our guide to our favorite cookbooks, I listed Bruce Aidells’ Complete Sausage Book. This book got me into making my own sausage. Making your own sausage is a great way to control the ingredients and fat content. I have many types of sausage over they years, but one I will always make myself instead…