Chicken Bacon Pizza

A different spin on pizza - quick and easy to make at home.  Start with fresh pizza dough, we buy ours pre-made locally, and a ball the size of a grapefruit covers a large cookie sheet.  heating your oven as high as it will go, in our case 500 degrees celsius, produces a crust with a crisp bottom and delicious chewy texture.  Chicken and basil are an interesting spin on a classic.

Four Meat Pizza - Pizza for Men!!

Using the pre made fresh pizza dough from De Luca's makes making home made pizza a cinch.  Simply spread out your dough and layer on your toppings.  We found the cutest heart-shaped salami this week and knew just what to do with it.  Pizza!  

I find heating the oven as hot as it will go yields the best results - for me that's 500 degrees (though I have my suspicions it actually gets that hot).  The pizza cooks in about 15 minutes this way with a nice chewy crust, crisp on the bottom and soft and chewy in the middle and the cheese perfectly browned on the top - nothing better!

Chicken Pizza with Basil and Onions

This is so fast and easy I'm not sure I'll ever order delivery again!!! I buy pizza dough by the bag at De Luca's. They sell whole wheat and regular in a bag...a dough ball is just about the size of a grapefruit and is large enough to cover a standard cookie sheet! They sell the dough for $2.50 per bag and you can toss it in the freezer for when you need it. Then, when I want to make pizza I take it out, defrost in the fridge and I'm good to go!