While we’re on a break from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, we’ve probably got more time on our hand than we would like. Delivery from some of our favorite restaurants is a great way to help support them. At the same time, we’re doing a lot of cooking, and making some of our favorite foods. For example, last night seemed like a great time for pizza. Unfortunately, I didn’t have many of the ingredients that I usually like to have for pizza, such a mozzarella cheese, along with a few other things. I looked in my refrigerator and found a bag a of shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar Cheese. Hardly the kind of the cheese that I would usually put on pizza. Right now, it’s more important that all us look for substitutes than to go out for ingredients. I used the shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar Cheese and to my surprise, the pizza actually turned pretty good.
On our San Francisco Food Tours, the stops e go to usually don’t have to substitute ingredients under normal circumstances. For many of us, when we’re cooking a home, we can think that what we make at home should taste the same way as a restaurant that we’ve been to. Even under the of best circumstances, what we eat at home should taste the way that we like it to taste. And, as long we experience the enjoyment of making the food and enjoying eating something that we made, it’s a great meal.
