chicken and pineapple pizza |
We LOVE pizza in our house. LOVE. Especially from this one place a few towns over, it’s so good that we find excuses to go at least twice a month even though it’s almost half an hour away. At one point we would easily go through one or two large pies a week. Not cheap, that’s for sure. And probably not that healthy with all of that cheese… but we’ll ignore that point.
To try and cut costs we cut down on our pizza consumption. I thought hubby wasn’t going to make it, the withdrawal was pretty bad. I knew there had to be a way to make a decent pizza at home. I’d tried making pizza at home several times before, but it’s not the same. The crust always sucks – if I make it myself it doesn’t taste right or rises too much or something else is wrong. If I buy one of those DIY kits, the dough tastes like toast (I love me some toast, just not as pizza).
Then, I got probably the third best cooking tip ever: buy dough from the pizzeria.
Really? You can do that? Why yes, you can! For a couple of dollars you can buy raw pizza dough (a large dough at our favorite place is $2.50) and do the rest at home! Pizza dough freezes really well too, just let it come up to room temperature before stretching.
ready for baking |
Cost Breakdown: (for a large cheese pizza)
Dough: $2.50
Sauce: $.50 plus a few cents for spices
Cheese: $1-3 depending on where you buy it, and if you get it in bulk
Total: Between $4 and $6 – waaay better than $16! (Yeah, pizza is expensive here)
Our favorite pizza is chicken and pineapple – shared below!
Chicken and Pineapple Pizza
1 large or medium dough (if you like thinner crust, use a medium dough and stretch it to the large size)
1 8oz can tomato sauce
¼ tsp dried basil
¼ tsp dried minced garlic
Pinch dried oregano
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
½ cup drained diced pineapple
1-2 chicken tenders, cooked and cut into ½ inch pieces
blot that pineapple! |
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