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Many people list pizza as one of their favorite foods. All across the country, you’ll find signatures like New York’s thin crust, Chicago’s deep dish, Detroit’s Sicilian, and California’s gourmet style with nontraditional ingredients. Thinner crusts fired in a wood-burning brick oven are most popular here on the east coast, though. No matter which toppings you prefer, brick ovens are undoubtedly one of the best methods to make the perfect pizza, and Tuscan Bistro is the best place to go for brick oven pizza in Toms River NJ. Archaeology provides evidence that many ancient civilizations utilized brick ovens to cook their food. The kitchens of today may be radically different than those of centuries ago, but the brick oven has endured. After all, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” Cook in a Fraction of the Time Brick ovens are so named because, obviously, they’re made of brick. The heat from the flame inside spreads and warms the bricks as well, which means that these ovens can reach temperatures up to 800ºF. By comparison, most conventional home ovens max out at 500ºF. The intense heat from the brick oven drastically reduces the time it takes to cook the pizza. Where it may take you 8-10 minutes to heat a pizza in a conventional oven, a brick oven produces a crispy…
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We’re approaching a busy time of year for parties and special events. Between Halloween parties, Thanksgiving get-togethers, holiday office parties, and New Year’s events, there’s tons of celebrations to go around. Even the most dedicated party host can grow tired during this season. Between the food preparations, decorations, and clean up, it’s possible to spend almost as much time working as you do celebrating. This year, take some of the work off your hands and consider holiday catering in Toms River. Enjoy Less Stress There’s no doubt that holiday catering offers a less stressful solution to hosting a party. You don’t have to worry about preparing food for an army of people, which leaves a lot more time for planning decorations and entertainment. Indeed, most of the stress that accompanies holiday parties revolves around the food. You have to think about storing it, preparing it, cooking it, and making sure everything is ready when it needs to be. Then, when all is said and done, you have endless dishes to attend to. By employing holiday catering, all the food preparation and cooking is taken off your plate. You can either pick up the food the day of the event or have it delivered to you. Remove this major source of stress, and you can spend your time more efficiently before…
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Most people go out to eat over the weekend. It makes sense because the weekend is when we have the most time to sit back, relax, and spend time with family and friends. However, dining out doesn’t have to be reserved solely for Saturdays and Sundays. In fact, it might possibly make more sense to go out to eat during the week. In our quest for quick and easy weekday meals, dining out is an option that’s often overlooked. Making Dinner Can Be a Hassle You’ve got a lot to do in one day. You wake up early, maybe get a morning workout in, get yourself ready, and then head off to work. After a long and grueling day, does anyone really feel like making dinner? You’ve got to prep the food, actually cook it, and then clean up the mess. After a day on your feet, or sitting in front of a computer screen, all you really want to do is relax and spend time with your friends and family. Dining out during the week makes a lot of sense, especially for that night where you might work especially late, or maybe your child has a late soccer practice. Normally you would have to run home, scramble to get the ingredients prepared, and wait for it all to cook while…
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Football season is almost upon us. Sundays are about to become even holier than they were before. There a variety of places people watch their football games – at home, on their phone, live, or at a bar. Seeing a football game live is a unique experience, often with memories that last a lifetime. However, it seems like ticket prices get higher with every passing year, and one can spend a lifetime on a season ticket waiting list. Watching the big game at your favorite bar can offer an equal, if not better quality experience. Here are a few reasons why Tuscan Bistro should be your new favorite football bar. The View Ticket prices are surging. With the advent of services like StubHub and TicketExchange, many fans finance their season ticket expense by selling tickets to games they have no interest in for way above face value. In order to get a decent view, you could find yourself forking over a small fortune. No matter what traditionalists may say, the view at the live game can’t compare to the one you’ll have in one of our bar seats. Sit comfortably and watch every pass, rush, sack, and touchdown in HD. That certainly beats watching the game on your smartphone screen at home while you’re pretending to rake the leaves. Miss…
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One of the most traditional, even ancient ways of coming together is over a shared meal. It’s human nature. However, these days, kids schedules can be just as complicated as the ones for adults. After school activities, sports, meetings, and so on make it hard for everyone to stay on the same meal schedule. Extracurriculars aside, upon arriving home kids are often immediately consumed by a screen, whether they’re watching TV, playing video games, or on their phones. With all of that going on it can be hard for parents to figure out a way to work in a family dinner. If each member functions as an independent unit, connecting as a family becomes difficult. Dining out is a good way to bring your family together. It forces everyone out of their element and into a setting of social interaction. Enjoy Less Distraction When Dining Out Mealtime is family time. It may be hard to prevent your children from tuning out when eating at home, but when you’re dining out it becomes easier to set a technology boundary. Choose a restaurant without video games and avoid televisions. Set a limit on the use of cellphones or tablets for when the meal is completed, or exclude them entirely. By ensuring the limited distractions, you’re provided with a solid chunk of time…
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In today’s health conscious society, going out to eat has been getting a bad wrap. It is true that in the past, eating out usually wasn’t a healthy choice. Now most restaurants and even some fast food joints are offering healthier options and there are ways to eat out and still stick to a healthy diet. So go out to eat – healthy dining is possible. Healthy Dining Menus Many restaurants have added health conscious selections to their regular menus or have a healthy dining menu. The options usually include salads, low-fat options, grilled foods instead of fried and in some cases, smaller portions. Some restaurants have gone one step further, offering clean eating and gluten free options. The main objective of any eating establishment is to serve a delicious meal that everyone can enjoy. With so many people watching what they eat and following a healthy diet, adding calorie-conscious options and healthy dining menus make for guilt-free dining out. Create Your Own Healthy Dining Out When you go out to eat, if the restaurant doesn’t have a healthy dining menu, that doesn’t mean you can make healthy choices. There are still ways you can enjoy a health conscious meal. Portion Control One of the biggest challenges when dining out is not to over eat. Too often just telling yourself…
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It doesn’t matter if you’re in need of a date night or an outing to catch up with family and friends, an evening of dining and entertainment is a great way to make it happen. Date Night Dining together is the perfect time to reconnect and stay involved in the day to day events of each other’s lives. It’s a fairly well-established fact that mealtime is the perfect opportunity for this, but why go out? Why not do it at home? You can, but a night out makes it special and gives you something to look forward to. Don’t you want date night to be more than just take out food and a movie on Netflix? A night out of dining and entertainment can help keep the spark in your relationship. You’ll get out of your sweatpants and take a little extra effort in your appearance. Neither of you will be stuck over a hot stove after a long day at work and there won’t be any dispute about what’s for dinner. You can each order whatever you want. Date night should also be more than going out, grabbing a bite to eat and heading back home. Dining and entertainment are a great combination for date night. Going to a restaurant that offers entertainment will make for a complete night…
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Whenever you are planning any type of event, social or business, there is always so much to do. Of course you will want to participate in your event as well as plan it, but that can be difficult if you spend most of it overseeing the all the details. Any task you can let someone else handle will free you up to enjoy your event. It is best to hire a catering service and leave the food preparation to the experts. Choosing the Menu This task can be almost as difficult as preparing all the food when hosting a large group. You will want to plan a menu that will appeal to everyone. A restaurant or service with catering expertise can help you create a selection of menu choices that will make it almost impossible for your guest not to find something they like. Most catering services will also be able to tailor some of their menu options to accommodate guests who may have special dietary needs, such as gluten free options. How Much Food Will You Need? How many people will be attending your event? 30 guests? 50 guests or more? When was the last time you cooked for that many people? You probably never have, right? This is another reason catering is the best option when it comes…
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Who doesn’t love the convenience of take out food? We’ve all done it, some of us do it more often than others and we all have our own reasons for ordering take out. No matter what your reasons are, a large part of the food not prepared at home is take out. So why do we like to order out so much? Don’t Have to Cook This is probably the most common reason for ordering take out food. Nobody feels like cooking. You just got home, it’s been a long day and the last thing you feel like doing is spending an hour in the kitchen preparing a meal. It only take a few minutes to order out. Then you can spend your time relaxing, enjoying your meal and spending time with family or friends. Can’t Stand The Heat It’s not just a quaint saying especially in the heat of the summer. Turning on the stove, especially the oven, will contribute to heating up the house. No matter how much you crank up the air conditioning, you’ll still feel the heat. Very Little Clean Up Clean up is almost non-existent when you order take out food. Depending on what type of food you order, there maybe a plate or two and a few utensils, but other than that, all you…
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Everyone likes to go out to eat, right? Dining out is becoming increasingly popular these days. There are so many benefits to dining out beyond the obvious chore of cooking and cleaning up. Be Spontaneous Who hasn’t waited until the last minute to decide on what to make for dinner? Then, you realize you don’t have all the ingredients or the meat is still frozen. There’s not enough time for the meat to thaw or to run to the grocery store…..well….you might as well just go out to eat. There is a lot of prep and planning when it comes to making dinner at home. The planning actually begins with grocery shopping, with more planning and prep the day you are going to cook the meal. Some of us are not great planners, or when it comes time to make the meal we aren’t in the mood for what we’ve planned. Some people just can’t plan that far ahead, not deciding what they want for dinner until ten minutes before it’s time to eat. In that case, you’ll probably end up looking for an interesting restaurant rather than a recipe. Be Social When you dine out, eating becomes a social event. A meal is more enjoyable when shared with family and friends. With our busy schedules, it’s the perfect way…
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