Trader Pizza

When I got home from work today I made a pizza. It wasn't quite from scratch, I used some dough I bought at Trader Joe's the other day.

This is what it looked like when it was done. There's just something about a lot of melted cheese on top of red sauce that looks so damn inviting.

The pictures below kinda show what I did to make dinner. I started out by rolling out the dough on a lightly floured board with a small glass bottle. Sounds odd but it works pretty well.

Then I tossed the dough in a rectangular baking pan and baked at 350f for 8 minutes to get the crust a little crusty. After that I pulled out the pan---the dough had a lot of bubbles in it but I don't know if that's obvious in the picture below---and added pizza sauce plus a bunch of Italian seasoning herbs.

Then the cheese. Mozzarella on the bottom, a mix of provolone, asiago, fontina and Parmesan above that and then some feta on top. Yum.

I baked the pizza at 350 again for another 8 minutes and then ate it. Half, anyway. I'll tell you, I don't like the whole wheat pizza dough nearly as much as the regular flavor. Other than that it was pretty darn good.






Comments

Naquillity said…
looks really good. i've already eaten and you've succeeded in making me hungry again. have a great night.
8:50 PM
Unknown said…
I thought you said you'd stopped blogging every day because you were on Facebook...

If you put a rolling pin on your Christmas gift list Ibet someone would buy it for you.
3:06 PM
utenzi said…
I doubt it, GG. Nobody likes me. Besides, I already have a traditional wood rolling pin. It's a little too big for this pizza though---and the dough sticks less to glass than wood.
3:09 PM
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