Thursday, March 22, 2012

The pizza that didn't coaporate but we still made it work!

So I had Pillsbury pizza dough that I needed to use up and I also noticed that I had leftover pasta sauce from a previous go to poor man's meal, spaghetti :) I WAS going to make a frozen pizza but decided to go the extra mile and make a homemade pizza because it just always better. With refrigerated dough and my ever-present cupboard item, pasta sauce, I was ready to go!

Unroll the dough, top it off with whatever you got hanging around in the fridge which in this was not a whole heck of a lot.....so cheese pizza it was going to be! Unfortunately this poor girl has only one hand grater on hand and it's a smaller grade so grating enough cheese for an ENTIRE pizza is difficult. But it's much cheaper to buy block cheese then pre-grated so grate by hand I did! Quite a workout. Me and mozzarella were not friends that night. I grated my little heart out and after I spread the sauce mixed with a fresh garlic clove ;) (must have item!) and sprinkled it with some basil and oregano I realized.....I STILL didn't have enough cheese to make it the way I liked it! BUT....I threw it in the oven anyways because I knew with the garlic and herbs it was still going to be good. Consider it a healthier version of your usual pizza!

It was a decent pizza. Still much better then frozen but gosh, I love me some cheese! So if you got it put it on!!!!

Recipe:
1 can refrigerated pizza dough
1 3/4 c. pasta sauce (whatever you have on hand)
1 Tbsp. dried basil
1/2 Tbsp. dried oregano
1 8 oz block Mozzarella cheese (or whatever you have on hand)
garlic clove

Preheat oven to 450. Slide dough in oven for a 6 min bake to get it starting to brown. Mix the pasta sauce with one clove garlic. Take the crust out of the oven and top with pasta sauce, basil, oregano, and mozzarella cheese and bake to your delight! Or for an additional 10 min :) If your oven is crappy like mine finish it off by broiling it for 1 min! Here is how it turned out! Sorry my photo skills are lacking.


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