Eating on Jitneys

I spent the beginning of the BBQ season bragging that I was going to invent BBQ’d pizza. Then I realized that that would not be an invention as lots of people apparently already BBQ pizza. Then I thought I would be super innovative and BBQ a pizza without a pizza stone. This is also done, as can be seen in the multile recipes for “BBQ Pizza.” On Sunday I had lots of free time, a BBQ, and as usual I oddly enough had all of the ingredients necessary to make the perfect BBQ’d pizza.

The recipe said…I SWEAR it said…place the pizza dough directly on the grill. They even said charcoal grills were better than gas. I don’t know what I did wrong but the middle burnt, the edges sunk into the grill and started to catch fire, and the cheese did not melt at all. I was able to get the stupid pizza off of the grill and into a 400 degree oven where the middle became even more burnt and the edges got only semi-cooked.

As much of a failure this was, it actually ended up tasting OK. I think Frank even said, “It tastes awesome.” The toppings were definitely awesome. I sauteed crimini mushrooms, garlic, red onions, and spinach in olive oil before putting them onto the pizza. This was very important. I plan on trying to make the ultimate pizza again soon because pizza is so good all of the time no matter what. Unless it is BBQ’d. Hint: Trader Joe’s sells bags of pizza dough for a dollar and it tastes great.

Here are the shameful pictures:  The first looks so hopeful.