BBQ Pizza: A Good-Sounding Bad Idea
August 23, 2007 at 10:46 pm | In bbq, pizza | 1 CommentI 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.
Yard Sale
July 24, 2007 at 12:44 pm | In baked goods, muffins, pizza, scones | No Comments
On Saturday I had a yard sale. I made a total of $11 all day, and spent over $20 on ingredients for baked goods at the sale. Classic. It was an exciting day, though. Ellen, Lindsay and LB and I sat on the front porch reading celebrity gossip and catching up on the lives of Brit-Brit and Lil’ Lohan. Have you ever seen Britney Spears stoned?? Priceless!
Oh, back to food. Ok. I made three things: Almond Lemon Scones, Blueberry Muffin Tops and Fresh Fruit Pizza. The scones are kind of my staple by now. So easy to make and so delicious. The Fresh Fruit Pizza was also not new. I made it for a BBQ at Lindsay’s once, but it was much better then. I tried making it in a pie dish this time which caused the crust to be way too thick and the egg, sugar, butter sauce on top to be way too thick and runny. Not very appealing, although it looked beautiful with the plum around the edge.
The Blueberry Muffin tops were new and, honestly, nothing that exciting either. I ran out of sugar going into this one and had to substitute a mixture of brown and powdered. This never really works but I always make myself believe that it will. They weren’t bad by any means, just nothing special. Which is too bad because the blueberries were AMAZINGLY good.
I’ll be making the fruit pizza again, as well as the scones. But next time I have blueberries I’m trying something else. So long Muffin Tops!
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