bonnie & jason

Pizza pizza

A few months ago, we decided to finally use our pizza stone, one of the many wedding presents we don’t use often enough.  Since it was our first attempt, we figured it would be a good idea to use a store bought Boboli crust.  It didn’t work out so good… mostly because we used tomato paste for the sauce.  Also, Bonnie likes her pizza with a crispy thin crust whereas the Boboli is a thick and chewy crust.  Despite that so-so experience, we decided to try it again, except this time, we made our own crust.  Also, we used tomato sauce with Bonnie’s own secret spice combination.  A few mushrooms, some pepperoni, and some ground turkey finished the toppings.

They turned out pretty well!  To the point where Bonnie actually wanted to take pictures and post them on the blog.  Ok, so maybe they weren’t exactly “circular.”  (I had some problems transferring the pizza from the cutting board to the pizza stone.)  But the crust was thin and crispy.  And the toppings were tasty.  It was just really messy with all the flour and dough.

In addition to the pizza, we also made some garlic bread with the leftover hot dog buns from our weekend BBQ.  (Jeff, Xiao Yi, and Jay came over for some sirloin and hot links on the grill.)  Benita accused us of being ghetto but she ended up eating more than half of them!  Hot dog buns are good because they’re nice and fluffy and suck up all the buttery garlicky goodness.  Mmm…

On a side note, if you’re wondering about whether or not an All-Clad pizza stone is all that… I would say it works fine.  Although the cookie sheet I used for the second pizza seemed to work just as well.  However, one thing you can do with the pizza stone is cut and serve the pizza right on the stone which is nice and kinda fancy.  Now, if I can only figure out how to make the them round.