Chicken Kabob Pizza

Husband and I are a match made in pizza heaven. In high school he made his own dough and sauce from scratch and sold it to his classmates. During college, I spent summers working at the super-delicious Gourmet Pizza Shoppe. So home-made pizza is a dinner time favorite around here. If you have a baking stone it cooks the crust perfectly evenly, its awesome, I highly recommend them.

Last night we put together one of my favorites, the chicken kabob pizza. It's like BBQ chicken and a luau had a baby made of pizza. That makes sense, right?

Enjoy!

Chicken Kabob Pizza

1 batch of pizza dough
drizzle of olive oil
sprinkle of corn meal
1/2 cup-ish BBQ sauce, I use Sweet Baby Ray's
1 cup-ish Grilled chicken
half a green bell pepper, sliced thin
2/3 can of pineapple chunks
two thin sliced rings of red onion
1/3 of a tomato, sliced thin
bacon bits, to your hearts content
1 cup to 3 cups mozzarella cheese, depending on your cheesiness tolerance.

1. Preheat oven to 425, with the baking stone inside if you have one. Once hot, remove the stone from the oven, or prepare the cold cookie sheet. drizzle with olive oil and spread the oil evenly across the surface, sprinkle the surface evenly with a dusting of cornmeal. No need to go crazy with the cornmeal, you want just enough to help the pizza keep from sticking so that it will slide off easily later.

2. Stretch the dough to desired size and thickness and lay out on the baking surface. Spread the BBQ sauce evenly across the dough, top with remaining toppings. I recommend putting the cheese on last, because it holds the toppings on, and you have a lot going on here that could easily fall off if unconstrained.

3. Put the pizza in the oven, bake for 10 min, turn the pizza 180 degrees, bake for an additional 8-10 minutes, until the crust is done on the underside. I usually take a long knife or spatula to life up the edge of the pizza and check underneath.

Strawberry Pizza

Listen to this quirky pizza idea: “An experiment that exceeded all expectations! This is soon to be one of our classics. Tomato sauce, mozzarella, Salumi coppa, organic strawberries, Laura Chenel goat cheese, and chopped walnuts. Spicy and sweet and incredible.”

Husband, we may have to try this one.

Tony's Pizza Napoletana

If you do nothing else the next time you are in San Francisco, do the world a favor and get the Cal Italia pizza from Tony's Pizza Napoletana.

Asiago, Mozzarella, Imported Italian Gorgonzola, Sweet Fig preserve from Croatia, Prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano, Balsamic Vinegar drizzle.

UNbelievable.

Me too

{image via GoldRush}

Fancy Pear Pizza

We had some dough sitting in the fridge, so I invented a pizza last night. It was inspired by my memories of the Pear and Gorgonzola pizza at CPK.

It was delicious.

Fancy Pear Pizza

Pizza dough

Olive oil

1 can of pears

1/4 - 1/3 c. hazlenut pieces

1/2 of a yellow onion, sliced thin

1/3- 1/2 c. gorgonzola cheese, grated

1/3 c. mozzarella cheese, grated
Drizzle of honey

1. Preheat your oven to 425. Stretch out your pizza dough on a  cookie sheet and drizzle a bit of olive oil on the surface and then brush it around so that it is a light even coating.

2. Toss your onions in a small pan with another light drizzle of olive oil and stir around over medium heat until they are soft and mostly transparent. While the onions are cooking, open your can of pears and cut the pear halves into thin slices, then spread the pear slices out on the pizza dough. When your onions are ready, remove them from the pan and spread them evenly over the pizza as well.

3. Toss your hazlenut pieces into the pan where you cooked the onion and stir them around over medium heat for a minute or two. Don't let them sit for too long or leave the heat up too high or they'll burn. When they start to brown a little and smell fragrant, remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle the hazzlenuts over the pizza as well.

4. Sprinkle the mozzarell and gorgonzola cheeses over the top of the pizza. The gorgonzola has a strong taste, so you'll have to play with the proportions to find out what your preference is.

5. Drizzle some honey across the top of it all and then into the oven it goes. After 10 minutes, give the pan a 180 so that the pizza cooks evenly. Give it 8-10 minutes more and then pull it out a serve with salad.

Mmm.

Pizza Extraordinaire

Whole wheat pizza with figs, brie, grilled eggplant, honey and sea salt...

Right?

Father's Day

For Father's Day yesterday, IKF and I made pizza for my family. IKF makes goooood pizza.

Dad loved his Star Wars Pancake Molds and proceeded to converse with us in his Darth Vader or Yoda voice for the rest of the dinner. Love that man.

Happy Father's Day Dad. You're the man. We love you.

NY Pizza

I miss NY Pizza. Big, giant, fold-it-in-half slices of delicious NY pizza.

Mmmm.

The best pizza in the city can be found at the place on the corner of Columbus and 110th St if you're uptown... Or at Bleeker Street Pizza in the West Village.

May the force be wedge shaped and covered in cheese

Yes, that is Yoda on a Pizza.