- Yummy Vegetables From Our Garden Top Our Pizza
Okay everyone loves pizza right? Well let me just say this everyone in my house absolutely loves pizza but even frozen pizza these days are expensive. So with the exception of next Friday night. We are going to have the Lil’ Suburban Homestead Pizza challenge. Can I make a homemade pizza that makes me go mmmmmm or aaaaaaaah. I kicked off the challenge tonight. I made a white pizza and a traditional pizza loaded with toppings and all sorts of goodies. I made the crusts from scratch, had to wait 2 hours for the dough to rise and it was pretty good but not “Great” good which is what I am shooting for so until I reach the pizza heights that I am searching for I will keep “kneading” on….;)
So do you have a favorite recipe you would like to share with me? We have a pizza place near our house that has pizza that is just wonderful and amazing but their pizza is about $20 per pizza. Our pizza right now is running about $4.00 a pizza however I would venture to say that if you purchased the ingredients in bulk you could go lower.
The recipe I followed tonight is on AllRecipes.com you can find it here.
Here is the recipe I used for the white sauce too. Although I did modify the white sauce recipe I added aged balsamic vinegar instead of wine so I guess I made it my own which I always have a tendency to do. As far as the other toppings and sauce I just used Walmart Brand Spaghetti sauce, mushrooms from the grocery store and veggies from our garden!
Who wants to take the Pizza challenge with me? How much money would your homestead save if you did nor order pizza out or buy frozen pizza? How much healthier would homemade pizza be? I am focusing on consuming more whole foods as a family so yes while homemade pizza might be a little labor intensive its worth it to me now if only the kids were home…..instead of playing cards tonight or games my husband and I ate our pizza by oil lamp at our little kitchen table. It was cozy and romantic on this fall evening but this hearty pizza would have gone great with soda and noise too!
Thanks for stopping by!
This Blog Is Part Of The Living Well Blog Hop and also linked to “Fat Tuesday” @ Real Food Forager
Well, I’ll be watching this thread until you get a ‘great’ pizza because I haven’t found anything I’m wowwed over either. Don’t know why it seems so hard. I think I have a pretty good sauce that is easy to make…the house smells wonderful when I use it; but the crust is what gives me fits and blah.
Shelley I agree the crust is the “crux” of the issue….ha ha no pun intended. Although my house smelled wonderful from the fresh dough rising and cooking the crust did not have that crunch on the outside or the flavor that will take my Friday night Pizza’s to new places 😉 If you come up with a new recipe you think I should try let me know too!
Thanks for sharing at FAT Tuesday. Hope to see you next week!
Thanks I will post a link back to you too Jill! and as always thanks for stopping by 🙂
I haven’t found one yet that is’t a lot of work. However, I think if you can find one that can be frozen, you may be on to something. That way you can make a large batch of dough, and be done for the month.
I love the idea of having the freezer stocked with crusts….now to make them taste good 🙂
Those are som really good looking pizza. Now, I want some!
Mely
Thanks Mely! I have been pouring over the internet for the next pizza dough recipe I am going to try……this Friday night we have made other plans but its totally back ON in October. 😉