mid-week meal share: personal pizzas

When one is grocery shopping whilst hungry one is bound to end up with things not normally found in the shopping cart. My items? Personal pizza fixin's!

I was initially picking out some things to make tacos but the pizza condiments happened to be right next door and I was like, "Oh this sounds so good right meow." The one downside to picking the dough up at random was only selecting toppings that I like. No, I don't like weird shit on my pizza but I'm sure Brendon would have preferred something more tasteful than just pepperoni and sriracha.

Easy to concoct: a toddler could do it!
Cost effective: yes, for my toppings it was $12 (could have made 6 mini zza's).

My list is extremely short because I'm not the most adventurous when it comes to pizza:

pre-made pizza crusts (or if you fancy yourself a recipe from scratch, be my guest)
pizza sauce ("     ")
cheese
pepperoni
sriracha
olive oil
parmesan cheese
garlic
italian herb seasoning


1. Pre-heat your oven to 450°F (or temperature that your crust requires).

2. Brush down crust with olive oil and different flavor enhancers. I used parmesan cheese, garlic, and italian herbs. Totally should have went with grated parm versus shredded because it didn't work out the way I had planned.

3. Top with pizza sauce.

4. Top with cheese.

5. Top with toppings (hardy har). Mine like I said was not on the wild side. Pepperoni and sriracha for this chick.

6. When your pies have reached topping perfection, place them in the oven for the designated cooking time.

7. Enjoy!

I cut Piper's into ridiculously small slices and of course big sis required the same 'treatment'. Hey, whatever it takes to get them to eat sometimes, right? It was a quick and easy dinner and you could pretty much make any type you desire (as long as you plan better than I did).



Kevin McCallister wouldn't have minded only cheese.
Leia

mid-week meal share: pizza ring

So, one of my favorite places to go on the internet is Buzzfeed and when I discovered they had an entire section on food my life only became more awesome. Recently the Buzzfeed Food Facebook page has been sharing amazing recipes that use Pillsbury crescent rolls in non-traditional ways. The temptation finally became TOO MUCH and my friend Adam and I decided to try some out. 

This particular recipe is for a 'Pizza Ring' and combined with instructions from Kiss My Apron we created a delicious masterpiece that everyone was happy with!

Cost effective: yes (~$11 to make with listed 'toppings' and the cheese and sauce could be used multiple times).

Easy to concoct: yes.

Nutritious: depends on what you fill it with.

For a pepperoni pizza ring you will need:

2 rolls of original crescent rolls (they make actual pizza dough, but I went with what was used between both recipes), 1 jar of pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and pepperoni. We also added garlic salt and Italian herb seasoning.

1. Preheat oven to 425°F (I would recommend 375°F if you have a double oven and are using the smaller oven).

2. Unroll crescent rolls, but do not separate into triangles.

3. Place onto wax/parchment paper (would recommend highly; placing on aluminum foil caused slight burning on the bottom of ours) as pictured in video - I cannot find the words to describe the shape it makes. Flower?

4. Place the ingredients of your choosing onto the inner half of the crescent rolls.

5. Fold excess crescent roll over ingredients.

6. Place in oven for 15-18 minutes.

7. Enjoy!

Bad lighting makes this looks entirely burnt but only the bottom was crispy.

The only issue we really experienced was the bottom getting slightly burnt and some of the inner crescents were not was well done from more layers placed in more spots. This recipe was extremely simple and quick to throw together. The next time we try this our goal is to create a breakfast masterpiece.



Yaassss Pillsbury pizza!
Leia