Pizza dough from scratch is ridiculously easy to make, but pizza dough you buy in the deli is even easier. One bag, which cost me $2.31, made two freeform pies. I had homemade marinara sauce on hand, so I used that. I sliced half an eggplant very thin and fried the slices in hot oil, sprinkling them with salt as they cooked to wilt them faster. Then I sautéed some sliced mushrooms in the same pan. I distributed the eggplant, the mushrooms, and a few marinated artichokes over the pizza, threw some shredded mozzarella over everything, and baked in a hot oven--around 450 degrees. I greased the pan with olive oil and dusted it with stoneground yellow cornmeal before I placed the dough on it. The crunchy bottom crust was the best part of this pizza.Tuesday, October 14, 2008
What I Had for Lunch Today: Eggplant, Artichoke and Mushroom Pizza
Pizza dough from scratch is ridiculously easy to make, but pizza dough you buy in the deli is even easier. One bag, which cost me $2.31, made two freeform pies. I had homemade marinara sauce on hand, so I used that. I sliced half an eggplant very thin and fried the slices in hot oil, sprinkling them with salt as they cooked to wilt them faster. Then I sautéed some sliced mushrooms in the same pan. I distributed the eggplant, the mushrooms, and a few marinated artichokes over the pizza, threw some shredded mozzarella over everything, and baked in a hot oven--around 450 degrees. I greased the pan with olive oil and dusted it with stoneground yellow cornmeal before I placed the dough on it. The crunchy bottom crust was the best part of this pizza.
How surprising of you to 'buy' something so cheap and easy to make from scratch!!! Are we becoming lazy in our old age, or just more practical????
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What can I say? I was walking by the deli and saw these beautiful, puffy pillows of dough, straining to get out of their plastic straitjackets. I just had to rescue at least one....
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