The Best Pizza

Pizza is everybody's favorite. My recommendation for the best pizza in the Metro Detroit area is Aubree's.I have been to this restaurant several times and each time have been extremely happy. The pizza has everything that makes a pizza great - it is the crunchiness of the crust, the flavored crust - my favorite is garlic butter, and the quality of the ingredients. When everything comes together it makes this pizza the best.

In addition to the pizza, they have a great selection of other foods including pasta dishes and fish and chips. I have tried several things on the menu and will do another post about those items.

During my last visit, I shared the Dinner for two with my friend Peggy. You will have enough to take home.

Dinner For Two
Medium 1-topping pizza
Garden or Greek Salad
Aubree’s Bread 19.95

  

We added extra topping to our pizza, one half is feta and pepperoni,
the other half is spinach and feta. Just delicious! 

The greek salad is delicious with calamata olives, red onions, tomatoes, and beets, the greek dressing is very tasty.                  



The breadsticks are simply delicious, seriously, I could just eat these and be fine. Mouthwatering, chewy, garlic butter flavored! Yummy.









Aubree's Pizzeria & Tavern

20420 Haggerty Rd
Northville, MI 48167

http://www.aubrees.com/

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings

This is a comfort food that I enjoy on a cold day. One of the reasons I like this recipe is because I know I always have these ingredients available. I keep a package of chicken in the freezer and of course flour and butter are always on hand at my house.  I have made this recipe for my husband, my sister and my niece and they have all enjoyed. I hope you enjoy as well!

Ingredients
Chicken Thighs or Chicken Legs (2 1/2 - 3 pounds)

1/4 cup chopped white onion
1/2 cup chopped carrots
Salt
Pepper

Garlic Powder

Seasoning Salt

Poultry Seasoning

2 Tablespoons Oil

Dumpling Ingredients

2 cups flour

1 pinch salt
1/2 cup milk

2 Tablespoons butter

(Add more or less milk, enough to make dough)

Directions

Heat oil in Large Pan
Place seasoned raw chicken and chopped onions and carrots in the pan and cook completely (about 20 minutes, test chicken).

Meanwhile:

Mix flour and salt. Work in the butter with fingertips. Gradually add the milk. Mix together.

Dust hands and cutting board with flour. Roll and flatten the dough to 1/2 inch thickness, cut in 1 inch squares.

Take chicken out of pan, remove meat from bone, return chicken meat to pot and add 4-6 cups water to make broth, season broth with more seasoning salt, garlic, pepper (season to taste). Heat to a boil.

Drop flour dumplings carefully into the hot broth and simmer the chicken and dumplings 10 minutes longer, making sure to ladle broth over the dumplings to submerge them as they cook.

Top off with a few sprinkles or sprigs of parsley or chopped green onions.

Delicious!

Best Sushi

I remember tasting Sushi for the first time several years ago. I didn't want "raw" fish, so I started with the California Roll, which is made from avocado, imitation crab meat, sushi rice and sesame seeds.

Since then, sushi is one of my ultimate favorites.  I have been to several restaurants where the sushi is not properly rolled and it ends up falling apart. When I eat sushi, I don't want the rice to overpower the sushi roll, the sushi shouldn't be too large and easily handled with chopsticks.

Out of all the restaurants that I have tried in the Metropolitan Area, I have three favorites that have the best sushi. Crave, Oslo, and Yotsuba would have to be my recommendations.
I rated them on freshness, the "sushi" experience, and taste.

Crave Lounge
22075 Michigan Avenue
Dearborn, MI 48124-2352
http://www.cravelounge.com/

Oslo
1456 Woodward
Detroit, MI 48226
http://www.oslodetroit.com/

Yotsuba
7365 Orchard Lake Road
West Bloomfield Township, MI 48322
http://www.yotsuba-restaurant.com/