Pizza Types

One of the best cuisines that you can have on a Friday night or a Saturday night out with friends would be pizza. But in terms of what kind of pizza should you order, think about this. Depending on your desire for type of dough there is thin-crust pizza ….. [Read more...]

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John Talks About Pizza

You know I make a shrimp and avocado pizza sometimes or  …. I don’t usually use tomato sauce on the pizza unless I’m making a tomato-y pizza, you know something very specific that way. But I like using veggies on the pizzas. Broccoli is a real favorite, sliced tomato, the fresh ….. [Read more...]

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John’s Favorite Pizza

Well, when you’re from Detroit, you have to love pizza or you’re going to starve because this is truly a pizza town with all the sports groups that we have and teams and stuff and we’ve got a number of national chains that are based here.

But my favorite pizza is the kind that I make in my own kitchen. And I love to make ….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 6

At the end of the day I had taken a couple cans. One or two of them were from the dollar store, some simple spices. They were what were sitting on the shelf and I made a delicious dish. It was one that was healthy. All the ingredients I could read. You know they say if there’s ….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 5

Well the house was starting to smell pretty good and I thought, all right, I better go get myself a little taste, so I grabbed a little Japanese teacup and a teaspoon, and I put some of it into the little teacup, and I let it cool down so I wasn’t just tasting the hot food but really the spices and all. It turns out the potatoes had softened and thickened ….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 4

I’m going to grate. I decided I had three red-skinned potatoes sitting there sprouting eyes. I cleaned those up and I grated them. And I put them in a skillet with some olive oil and a little bit of water on a hot fire to cook to coat the pan. I drained the white beans and I ….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 3

So I got home tonight and thought, “What should I fix?” I’ve got to get this pilot put together and I’ve got to sit down at the computer, so I sat down and I started to thaw out a container of roast turkey and brown rice that I had ….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 2

As the story goes, I’m from a big old family and one of the things that we have is a lot of love. And something else that we had a lot of was a lot of good food. So here I am today looking all around me and thinking I have a lot of joy when I cook and that’s for good reason….. [Read more...]

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Cooking With John – Part 1

This was a piece that I had done from my Toastmasters group and it was called ‘Pitching a Pilot – Cooking With Uncle John.’ Excuse me.

Now I’m a lot of different people from a lot of different places to a lot of different folks, but to thirty-six nieces and nephews I’m known as Uncle John. So that’s where my story my story starts. You see, I’m the ….. [Read more...]

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Jim Makes Pizza

Denise, glad to have you in my house. Lori and I love having you here.

I want to talk about real pizza. Real pizza comes from Chicago. That’s where I’m from, all right? I’m going to plug the company, Aurelio’s. They make some of the best pizza you’ll ever [Read more...]

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