I also maintain a family blog www.farmerfamilyscoop.blogspot.com to mostly post pictures and anecdotes about my kids and I rushed to put up pictures Saturday night. I’m so excited about this pizza I made Saturday night, I’m going to do something I don’t normally do and double post about it here as well.
I’ve been on a mission to make a successful homemade pizza for awhile now, with little success. Every time I’ve attempted to make pizza a’la Mindy, the results have not justified the time, effort, and money spent. I’ve used prepared crusts, jiffy crusts, and various dough recipes, all to no avail.
I did a little blog hopping this week, starting at Happily Domestic and linking to Menu Plan Monday at http://orgjunkie.com/“. Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie had a bread machine pizza dough recipe on her site and I decided to try it and then top it with my own selection of ingredients.
I used this delicious dough recipe: Bread Maker Pizza Dough and my bread machine did all of the work. I pulled it out of the bread machine and can’t tell you how relived I was when it had the perfect elasticity and was not sticky (the usual results of my previous attempts). Then I simply rolled it into a circle slightly larger than my pizza pan, put the pan over it, flipped everything over, crimped up the sides to create a crust, then lightly brushed some olive oil over the raised crusts.
Then, I added the following:
Ranch Dressing (Maybe 1/2 Cup – spread as you would pizza sauce)
Red Onion and Mushrooms (cooked in oil on stovetop for about 5 minutes)
Canned Artichokes (cut into small pieces)
2 Chicken Breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces (cooked in olive oil on stovetop with Italian Seasoning until cooked through and browned)
I cooked it in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes and got this:
Sounds yum! My favorite pizza? Cheeseburger pizza. Saute onions until translucent, and add ground chuck. Cook and drain. Prepare bagged pizza crust (the store brand is great…you just add water!) and roll out. Bake five minutes, and remove from oven. Slather the par-baked crust with mustard, add the meat and onions, and top with sliced dill pickles (trust me). Cover in mozzarella cheese and bake ten more minutes (or until cheese is as brown as you desire. Mmm. Delicious! It tastes like a tiny Krystal burger, only more delicious. It’s even good the next day!
Oh, I bake my crust at 475. It’s perfect!
homemade pizza is the best! Although when I’m feeling lazy I use french bread instead of pizza dough.
We love making homemade pizza in our house–it’s my son’s favorite!