Yesterday afternoon we got home from a trip to New York and I suddenly wanted to make pizza. Rafael was very nice and walked with me to the grocery store to get ingredients. Then I started my pizza adventure! I made two kinds of pizza - grilled and in the oven.
This was my first time eating grilled pizza, but I had seen it and I wanted to try it. The grilling was really fun! I don't have a real grill so I used this cast iron
stove top grill that Mom gave me for Christmas. It worked great! I just rolled out the dough and put it on the grill.
I liked how it got so bubbly! I put some olive oil on top and flipped it over. I didn't get a picture because I wanted to put the toppings on right away so the cheese would melt. The grill marks look cool and they taste
delish.
I put on fresh
mozzarella, regular
mozzarella, tomato sauce, tomatoes, and basil. It came out light and crispy. Next time I think I'll put grilled veggies on the cheese instead of sauce. Maybe I'll add some goat cheese too. Raf and I both really liked it!
I also made pizza in the oven. I had made pizza before on a cookie sheet but I thought that the bottom got too hard so I decided to try something different. If I had a pizza stone I would have used that, but I thought a casserole dish would be similar. I didn't really know how it would turn out but it ended up being sort of like a deep dish pizza, but not so deep and without so much sauce and cheese. I rolled out the dough, put it in the dish, and added tomato sauce, chicken sausage, fresh
mozzarella, and regular
mozzarella and put it in the oven.
Then I realized I forgot the tomatoes and basil so I took it back out of the oven and added them.
This one took a lot longer to cook than the grilled pizza, but I think we liked it better. The crust had a really nice texture and tasted great with the toppings. I'll definitely make a pizza like this again.
I really liked my pizza making adventure! Thank you Rafael for being my loyal taste tester!
We bought our crust at the grocery store but I want to try making my own sometime. Our pizza had chicken sausage, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, and fresh pineapple. Raf's favorite kind of pizza is sausage and pineapple, and my favorite has ricotta so it was a compromise. :)
It was beautiful and delicious! I might have used a little too much sauce. And it had a really big bubble! Here is a close-up:
Thanks Mommy for the pizza set! In other news, the sun came out! I can't believe it. :)
