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September 15, 2007
Personal Pizzas...
They're not perfect, but one of the neat things that using Boboli's mini crusts as a base makes doing quick pizzas very easy. It also makes it easy to experiment, since, if the experiment goes awry, it's not like you've got a lot invested in the project. Plus, it's easy to let the kids help, since the main task is assembly. It was just Kev and I at home for dinner, so we made two pizzas, one a classic pepperoni, the other a variaion on a muffeletta pizza.
For the pepperoni pizza, we started with the pizza crusts, Ragu sauce, shredded cheese, and pepperoni:
For the muff pizza, we went a bit different. Same crusts, but instead of regular tomato-based sauce, we used olive salad from Progress Grocery. Progress Grocery was located just a few doors down from Central Grocery, on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. They moved out of the Quarter in the 1990s, opening up a commercial (no retail) facility in Metairie to sell and distribute their product. I think their olive salad has been superior to Central Grocery's since I was in college. In addition, we used a three-cheese crumble from Kraft, parmesan, provolone, and feta. I originally was going to make this a veggie pizza, but when we saw that there was enough pepperoni for both, we put some on this one as well.
Assembly was quick. Here's the pepperoni pizza:
And here's the muff:
We tossed them both into a 350F oven for about half an hour, and here's the finished products:
Posted by YatPundit at September 15, 2007 4:33 PM