Valentines Pizza

Here's a fun way to serve your pizza on valentines day.


Pizza dough
Pizza Sauce
Mozzarella cheese
pepperoni
ham


I just rolled out my pizza dough, placed it on my pizza stone and then just scored with a knife a heart shape.  I didn't have much dough that I cut off, but you could always use the extra to make a mini pizza.


Spread your sauce over the dough, add your cheese, then comes the fun part... decorating your heart.  I chose pepperoni and ham because of it's color.  It would also be fun to use lots of red veggies, like tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes, red pepper, and red onion.  A bbq chicken pizza with those additions would be great too.  This one was intended to be kid friendly.


The final product...

Winter Pizza

Looking for a unique pizza?  This is it!  We love butternut squash at our house, especially roasted.  So one day I thought, why not try it on Pizza?

1 pizza crust (store bought, or home made here)

1 butternut squash

pesto sauce (In winter I often use a jarred natural one from meijer or costco)

1 large sweet onion

Sun dried tomatoes

1 head of garlic

2 Tbs olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

1 bag of mozzarella cheese or italian blend

Preheat the oven to 425.  Peel and cut your squash into 1 inch pieces.  Slice your onion into 1 inch wedges.  Peel your garlic cloves and slice in half if they are large, otherwise just leave them whole.  Toss your squash, onions, and garlic with the olive oil and salt and pepper in a large bowl.  Make sure they are coated well.  Place them on a rimmed baking sheet and roast in the oven for 15 minutes.  Remove and stir, then put back in the oven for another 10 minutes.

Spread the pesto sauce on your pizza dough, add the cheese (I like to reserve a little for the top too).  Place your sun dried tomatoes and your squash mixture on top.  Place in a 425 degree oven for about 10-15 minutes.  My squash was room temp when I made my pizza, so it needed the full time.

Slice and enjoy!  Goes great with a salad.

pizza dough

I love home made pizza dough.  I just use my bread maker.  Here is the recipe:


1 cup plus 1 Tbs water
2 TBS olive oil
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp regular active dry yeast


Put all ingredients in your bread maker in the order listed and set it for dough cycle.  2 hours later you have dough ready to go!
It makes 2 pizza crusts.

BBQ Chicken Pizza

1 Onion sliced

1-2 TBS butter

BBQ sauce

2 pizza crusts (home made or store bought)

2 cups chicken in bite size pieces. (left over chicken is a great option)

1 bell pepper sliced (color of your choice)

mozzerella and colby jack cheese

1 tomato chopped

1. Preheat oven to 450

2. Carmelize onions in butter over medium heat. (saute' until carmel color)

3. spread bbq sauce over pizza crusts

4. place a thin layer of mozzerella cheese, followed by chicken, carmelized onions, peppers, and more cheese. Top with tomato.

5. Bake for 6-9 minutes