Thursday, June 2, 2011

Home made pizzas

So... last month I experimented with pizza crust.... trying to make food more interesting, even if there's some different ways to prepare the same thing-just helps change it up.

I made 2 different pizzas in the same night.

Buffalo Ranch Chicken pizza, and a BBQ pizza
both turned out interesting-but not as good as left overs
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Buffalo Ranch Chicken Pizza
1 12in batch of pizza crust (so many recipes/ready mixes find the one you like best)
1 large chicken breast-cut into fairly small pieces
ranch dressing
hand full of blue cheese crumbles
2 carrots
1 piece of celery
couple hand fulls of mozzarella (or Monterrey jack)
wing sauce (the most popular is franks-mmm)

if you have a 'magic bullet' this comes in handy while mixing ranch dressing with blue cheese crumbles-it gives you an evenly blended paste like sauce perfect for spreading on pizza crust
if not, use a mixer, or do it by hand.
-mix blue cheese and ranch evenly together, then
let chill in the fridge while your doing the next steps

-prepare your dough-cover with a cloth towel that is lightly floured so it doesn't stick

-dice your chicken into
small pieces and place into a skillet and add the franks-be generous.
cover with a lid and cook on a low medium (cooking chicken too high will make it rubbery)

-wash hands and work with dough. stretching it onto your pan. (don't forget to remove your rings too... dough can be pesky)

-spread sauce liberally but evenly

-add cheese-and once chicken is done cooking,
add chicken

-on the very top add your veggies and bake for 12-15m until crust is golden brown (or other wise directed on your crust directions)

beer serves well as an addition to the pizza (wings....pizza.....beer...) so pick the beer you like best to go with wings or pizza!!

**for a vegetarian twist you may be able to use finely cut tofu... or use a chicken substitute just make sure to toss it in franks sauce**


BBQ pizza

bbq sauce (use your fave!)
fresh corn-2 cobs-corn cut from cob
cheddar cheese
mozzarella cheese

prepare crust
cook chicken on low medium-you can actually grill this chicken-yum!!
and follow the previous directions to put this pizza together.

I'm not quite sure what would be a yummy vegetarian twist for the bbq pizza-so if you have one, please let me know and ill update this!

Like i said, these pizzas were yummy fresh out of the oven-but not the next day. so make sure your hungry!!!
















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