Enough said, yes?
Tonight's pizza: 1/2 cheese and garlic, 1/2 pepperoni and sausage on a whole wheat crust.
Tonight's pizza: messy, imperfect, wicked awesome.
Start things out with the base of every good pizza, the crust. I simply modified this recipe to my liking. I also halved it since the recipe linked makes two crusts.
I used whole wheat flour instead of all purpose and added in some parsley and garlic powder. Do whatever you wish with the ingredients, but follow the same basic directions listed.
For the sauce I did something similar. Because I'm, like, soooo gourmet, I started out with this:
But then I redeemed my canned sauce using self by adding all of this:
Garlic powder, parsley, oregano, and white pepper for just the slightest kick.
While you are letting the spices mingle with the sauce you should probably decide what toppings you would like on your pizza. I wanted cheese and garlic, and for Chris I threw on some pepperoni and sausage. Commence preparing the toppings.
Then comes the fun part - or the hellish part if you're me. Rolling out the crust. Try as I might, I cannot get a crust looking like I want it to just by using my hands. So, I bastardized the homemade pizza making process by rolling it out with a rolling pin.
Except that I can't work a rolling pin correctly to save my life, so my crust was still a bit imperfect.
Finally, a fun part; building the pizza. Everyone is going to have a different way of doing this, and everyone is going to think their way is the right way. I started with the sauce, then added the garlic (on my side) and the sausage (on Chris's side).
Because I was hungry, distracted, eating pepperoni and mozzarella slices, or one of a million other excuses I could give, I stopped taking pictures of the prep process there. So, I added freshly grated parmesan cheese to my side, covered the entire thing in fresh mozzarella slices, added more sausage and some pepperoni on the 'Chris side', and sprinkled the whole thing with more parmesan.
In the 450 degree oven it went for 15 minutes.
This is what came out:
Will it win the award for prettiest pizza of all time? No. Is it a tad lopsided? Yes. Is it overflowing with mozzarella? Yes...oh, wait, that's not a bad thing at all!
I can say this much, it tasted damn good. I haven't tried a slice from Chris's side. Honestly, with as much as I ate from my side, I don't need it. But I am curious about his side came out.
Oh pizza. So simple. So quick. So amazingly good.
Though, admittedly, not so good for you.
At least it had a wheat crust, right?
The end.
