My Madison Bistro

If you visit this blog regularly, you may have noticed the change in oven tops a few months back. You may also have noticed in the picture above that it’s my old oven. This dish happens to be the very last baked in my old oven. The next time I tried to use it, it […]

This is, by far, the best pizza I’ve ever made in my life. Yes, ever. And I’ve made a few pizzas, even going so far as to store my own partially-baked crusts in my freezer. But unless you have a wood-burning oven in your home, or have jimmied your self-cleaning oven to allow extremely high […]

We’re starting a heat wave! Well, compared to last week and this past weekend, anyway. Over the weekend, I had to turn my heat on a few times, to take the chill out of the air. Yesterday when I got up, it was a whopping 29F/-2C. Brr! Sure, in a couple of months, that will […]

Where I live, there aren’t many more opportunities to grill outdoors yet this year. Days are shorter and cooler, and though we like to pretend that snow isn’t just around the corner, it tends to sneak up on us all too quickly. So we grill while we can. Grilling a whole chicken is a nice […]