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Pumpkin cheesecake

(Actually, looks more like 5%, if the pic is accurate!!)

I'd love to see a set of Ricotta cheesecakes done - they are very hard to find compared to NY Style, but I grew up with my dad (Cuban) making a bunch of these as Christmas gifts for friends from a recipe a very generous Italian neighbor gave him.

The friends always raved, and when I made one myself about a year ago for a family gathering of my wife's relatives, by the time I got around to trying a slice... I actually never got a slice - it was all gone! :)

I think I eat pizza 1-2 times weekly. Been a while since I've fallen off the horse.

Regarding Alfonso's: I too have partaken in the Alfonso’s Pizza Experience. I eat almost weekly at Alfonso’s in Somerville (a few miles North on 202 - same apparent ownership; same sign design… I’ve eaten at both, but I like the Somerville incarnation better). I like this restaurant very much.

My wife and I often order the same things: A personal pizza for an appetizer (note: well done, and extra thin. This is the way I like the pizza here – otherwise the crust is a little heavy and soft for my taste.)

I'm kind of basic in pizza tastes, unlike most of the readers here, but I know what I like.

Try the extra thin/well done trick next time. I haven't been disappointed in the 2 years since I figured it out. :)

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Forgive my snobbery, but I stopped watching Food Channel about 18 months ago. Whenever they replaced/second-fiddled the real pros like Mario Batali, Emeril, and Sara Moulton with those overproduced yuckfests with the soft filters, the cheesy music, and the lack of live cooking. (Of course, I do watch Good Eats; Alton talks about COOKING, and it’s not OVERproduced)

EEW: Sandra Lee, Rachel Ray (because she just annoys me), Giada de Laurentis, Ina Garten, Tyler Florence (I like the last 2 a little more than the others).

I would like to see cooking, and learn about why things work the way they do in the kitchen, not learn how to set a pretty table or entertain my guests. It seems to me that would be better suited to a different channel. Now I watch America’s Test Kitchen on PBS, and that replaces the *entire* Food Network for me.