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Category: 40 pizzas

  • 40 pizzas / buffalo chicken.

    pizza no. 10 : buffalo chicken. occasion : it's Wednesday (again). crust : our whole wheat usual. I promise I'll be trying out more crusts and different cooking methods at some point turing this pizza adventure! Right now, while things have been so busy, it's made more sense to just use what I know and…

  • 40 pizzas / BBQ chicken.

    pizza no. 9 : bbq chicken. occasion : it's Wednesday. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : bbq sauce. cheese : mozzarella & provolone. toppings : black olives, green onion, chicken & corn. thoughts : this is our go-to and has been for years. Wednesday, we realized we didn't have the ingredients for the…

  • 40 pizzas / pepperoni deep dish.

    pizza no. 8 : pepperoni deep dish. occasion : it's Sunday and we've been talking about building a deep dish pizza for weeks. crust : our whole wheat usual. The first time we made this, shown above, I didn't cut down the recipe enough. We have since tried again and this time and I cut…

  • 40 pizzas / sun dried tomato pesto.

    pizza no. 7 : sun dried tomato pesto. occasion : it's Saturday! crust : our whole wheat usual + a bit extra yeast! sauce : we adapted a recipe from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It's below : 1/2 C sun dried tomatoes packed in olive oil glove of fresh garlic handful of fresh…

  • 40 pizzas / colorful combo.

    pizza no. 6 : colorful combo. occasion : we made this before we went out of town for five days. It was an effort to clear the fridge of some leftover meat (pepperoni & turkey sausage) and green onion. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : for this one, we used a jar of…

  • 40 pizzas / steak & potato.

    pizza no. 5 : steak & potato. occasion : we grilled steak from the farmer's market two Sunday's ago (as part of our summer manifesto) and had leftover for a pizza. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : a garlic cream sauce of Paul's concoction. cheese : yellow cheddar and Dubliner, our favorite aged…

  • 40 pizzas / strawberry balsamic.

    pizza no. 4 : strawberry balsamic. occasion : we hosted Paul's aunt and uncle for dinner. crust : our whole wheat usual – but only about half the recipe and rolled out super thin. sauce : a balsamic reduction of Paul's concoction. Basically we heated about 1/8 C balsamic vinegar & 1/8 C olive oil,…

  • 40 pizzas / bacon & egg.

    pizza no. 3 : bacon & egg. occasion : it's Tuesday. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : a Romanesco red sauce from Paul's favorite cookbook, the Meat Bible. I looked and found something very similar here. cheese : jack & cheddar. toppings : bacon, egg & onion. thoughts : this pizza was supposed to…

  • 40 pizzas / pesto chicken.

    pizza no. 2 : pesto chicken. occasion : the basil plants were due for their first major trim. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : pesto! This time around we had more than enough basil so we skipped the asparagus, but normally we follow this recipe (and love that we get extra green veggies).…

  • 40 pizzas / thai chicken.

    pizza no. 1 : thai chicken. occasion : it's Friday night. crust : our whole wheat usual. sauce : peanut sauce of Paul's concoction (all measurements are approximate) 1/4 C peanut butter juice of half a lime 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar (or similar) 2 tbsp canola oil 1-2 tbsp honey (we use natural peanut…