Tasty Thursday: Thai pizza

My husband asked for a Thai pizza this week. He loves Thai food, I don't. The poor man only gets Thai food once or twice a year so I was happy to oblige him.

Now not liking Thai I am not the best when it comes to flavors so I asked and did some research...I guess I didn't do enough. Still the pizza was pretty good and we ate it all, which is more than we did with the taco pizza last week. 

So here is the recipe.

Pizza Dough (Bobby Flay)

Thai chili sauce

medium zucchini, chopped

shallot

mozzarella cheese

peanuts (we didn't have any so I had to use cashews)

So roll out your dough and then spread some of the chili sauce over it. You decide how much you want but hold out some for the top. 

Spread the other toppings throughout the pizza, topping with cheese. 

Bake at 375 until the crust and cheese are golden brown. 

Let pizza sit for five minutes and top with some chili sauce.  

Tasty Thursday- Taco Pizza

So I have been thinking that Pizza Palooza is a hit, we didn't have it last week due to the holiday and a neighborhood BBQ we went too and Matty kept asking for it all week long and was very disappointed when there was no Pizza palooza. 

So this week we decided to try the Taco Pizza that James has been asking for. 

So when we made the nacho pizza the sauce was a bit too runny so this time I cooked the salsa down with the meat and made a meat sauce. 

The problem was it was too hot so I had to temper it with some sour cream. Even then it had a nice kick.

Okay so here is the recipe:
Bobby Flay's pizza dough
1 lb ground beef
2-3 cups of salsa (you decide how spicy you want it to be)
3/4 cups sour cream
can of sliced olives
Cheese
Tomatoes
chopped lettuce
Guacamole (optional)

Cook your beef in with your salsa to create a meat sauce, if you want you can temper it with the sour cream. Your choice.

While that is cooking preheat your oven to 375 and then cook your pizza dough for about eight minutes.

When that is done top it with the meat sauce, olives, and cheese and cook for about 15 minutes.

Let it sit for two or three minutes then top with tomatoes, lettuce, and guacamole.

The kids declared this was the best pizza yet, beating out the nacho pizza the previous winner.

Tasty Thursday: BBQ chicken pizza

It is another Pizza Palooza day which means it was time for another crazy pizza creation. Eve keeps asking me where I come up with these ideas. In all honesty I just look on Pinterest then make up my own recipe.

So this week we thought we would try something crazy with BBQ sauce and chicken.

Here's what you need:
Pizza crust, again I went with the Bobby Flay crust, so easy and so yummy.
BBQ sauce, enough to cover the bottom of the pizza and to cook down the chicken and veggies in so about a bottle or so
Red pepper, diced
half onion, diced
Mozzarella cheese

So I made my pizza dough and actually stuffed the crust with cheese, this was a good idea in theory but it will take a few more tries to get it right. It tasted delicious but the cheese broke through the crust and a lot of it ended up on the bottom of my oven.

Anyway I cooked the crust for about ten minutes then pulled it out and mixed in my toppings.

While that is cooking, Add your BBQ sauce, chicken, and veggies to a sauce pan and cook down the sauce. I didn't do this and it lead to a very messy, runny pizza.

Top your crust with the sauce mixture and then sprinkle some cheese on top. Cook until the cheese is golden brown.

Let this pizza sit for five to ten minutes too to help the sauce congeal a bit more.

This pizza was good not our favorite. Still a tasty treat and the kids are already looking forward to next week.

Tasty Thursday: Chicken Alfredo Pizza

Ah Wednesday is quickly becoming the family favorite around this house and last night we were all ready to try another great pizza- Chicken Alfredo pizza.


This is another simple and easy recipe-


Bobby Flay pizza dough- I added a bit of garlic seasoning to the dough on this one.

Half a can of alfredo sauce
red pepper
Spinach (I used about a cup)
Chicken, cooked and diced
Mozzerella
Garlic seasoning (garlic salt is fine but I prefer alternatives)
if you can find it garlic white cheddar cheese is a great addition to the pizza


Okay I didn't precook my dough but I think that the recipe would benefit from the dough being cooked for 5-7 minutes before the toppings are put on.

Heat your oven to 375 and  the put the sauce on. I layered the rest of the toppings on then the cheese. Cook for 20 minutes or until the cheese is golden brown.

This was a fabulous pizza, so yummy.

Tasty Thursday: Cheeseburger Pizza

When the kids asked for cheese burger pizza this week I went to work. I went through the recipes that I could find and then decided just to make up my own. It was a cheeseburger so what do you put on it...cheese, burger, pickles, and tomatoes right?  Well in my house you use bacon as well. 

Here is the recipe I used:

Nat's Cheeseburger Pizza (makes 2 14 inch round pizza)

Bobby Flay's Pizza dough 

2 cups ketchup

1 cup mustard

1.5 lbs of ground beef

10-12 strips of bacon

 1 onion, chopped

2 tomatoes

pickles

cheese

Heat oven to 375, I used a pizza stone for this particular pizza but you can use what you have. While the oven is heating brown the ground beef with your chopped onion, and bacon, and slice your tomatoes. Mix the ketchup and mustard together, this will become your "pizza" sauce.

Then it is time to build your pizza. I topped my dough with the sauce and then a sprinkling of cheese and the tomatoes. Half your beef mixture should go on the top and then top with cheese. We added pickles on half of the pizza which seemed to work.

The verdict- it was liked but not as much as the Nacho Pizza from last week. That said everyone ate it and said how it tasted just like a cheese burger. So I figure it was a success.

Tasty Thursday: Nacho Pizza

Okay I have neglected this poor blog too long. Not sure the start of Summer Vacation is the best time for a busy mom of four to start blogging on a personal blog but what the heck, let's throw caution to the wind and jump in with both feet. Since I want to keep this blog going I spoke with the my dear friend and she helped me come up with some snazzy titles and topics I can talk about each day.

Today it is Tasty Thursday. As the title suggests Thursdays will be where the recipes are housed (as a side note, I can never spell recipes correct. Thank heavens for spell check.)

Today's tasty treat is Nacho Pizza.

It all started the Saturday before Memorial Day. We had just visited some graves and decided to visit our favorite pizza joint for dinner on the way home. While we were waiting the waitress, being smart and heading off trouble, brought over crayons, color pages, and a pizza cookbook. The kids began flipping through this book and found so many pizzas that they looked at with shock and wonder. Cheeseburger pizza with ketchup and mustard sauce, Enchilada pizza, pizza with grilled veggies, pizza that you grilled. They were enthralled and I must admit I was too. So we decided that one night a week this summer we would devote to new pizzas. We affectionately have titled this new tradition- Pizza Palooza.

Last night was our first book and after careful deliberations (a vote in the car) we settled on trying Nacho Pizza first.

I scoured Pinterest and the internet for a good recipe (there is that word again) to try and ended up combing three our four ideas into our tasty treat.

I start with my trusty pizza dough recipe. I wish I could claim this recipe but alas it is Bobby Flay's and you can find it here.  It is a fabulous recipe and I have never had it go wrong. I usually add fresh herbs to make this even better but since we were going nacho style I added some chipotle spice, cheese, and some green chilies.

After the crust is ready roll it out on your chosen pizza cooking surface and then put it in the oven at 425. I cooked it for 8 minutes or until the crust started to turn a golden brown, I think that you can cook it all the way through though and that it wouldn't make a difference.

While that was cooking I made the sauce- 1/2 cup of sour cream and 1 cup of the chunkiest thickest salsa you can find. This is important. The sauce is going to be runny so the less runny you can make it the better.

I also cut my veggies and got my other toppings ready. The toppings are up to you. I used a can of black beans, half of an onion chopped, a tomato chopped, can of olives sliced, and some grilled chicken. Oh and cheese of course. Since it is a nacho pizza I figure you can use whatever toppings that you love on nachos. Want to put on jalapenos great. Prefer steak or beef perfect. This is great to adjust to your preference.

When the crust came out of the oven I spread my sauce on the top...it was delicious.

Once the sauce was on I spread out my other toppings. Since I am not a huge fan of cooked tomatoes I left them off until the last stage of cooking...more on that in a second.

In no time I was ready to put it back in the oven for about 7 minutes or until your cheese has melted all the way through.

I pulled it out yet again and topped it with crushed tortilla chips a bit more cheese and my chopped tomato. Back in the oven it went for about five minutes and then it was ready.

I was really nervous to try this. When asking for ideas earlier James had said he just wanted cheese pizza, this was  a bit more than that but the kids loved it. It was voted really really good by the whole table and even Matty ate all his slice.

So there you go. A yummy new twist on pizza dinner night.

What are your favorite nacho toppings? What would you have added? Oh and what great pizza ideas do you have?