Think about it, doesn’t your mouth salivate when you see a big red, ripe tomato, sending Pavlovian signals to your brain to indicate spring is here. Perhaps you enjoy fresh, juicy summer strawberries, or the inside of a road stand watermelon. Whatever you’re eating, red usually signals delicious.
So then, what to write about? Well, for me it broke down like this:
1. Red = Love
2. Love is Amore
3. “When the moon hits your eye, like a big-a pizza pie, that’s amore…”
Quite obviously, I had to talk about pizza. Last week, I ordered a large pizza from a national chain, and after the tip, it cost me $24.00. A pizza costs the delivery chain roughly five dollars to make, so paying nearly five times that amount is ridiculous.
With that in mind, I am starting a “stop ordering pizza” campaign. Here is a recipe for pizza sauce that can be made ahead of time and refrigerated several days. Buy a premade pizza crust, whatever veggies and meats your family likes, and turn your kitchen into a pizzeria.
Quick Tip: I usually double the recipe, and use the extra to make mini pizza-dillas, or add some chopped veggies and put it over whole-wheat pasta later in the week for a really easy meal.
Once you have made the sauce, lay out your premade pizza crust on a cookie sheet or piece of foil, and top it however you would like. Here is how I like mine:
You can make your own crust, but with so many great premade options it’s not worth the extra work. Pick out your favorite style of crust and toppings. Get the kids to help you make it, then eat it in front of a movie with your family and I promise it will be delicious.
As always,
Stay hungry my friends.
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pizza pizza – love a slice and some extra sauce!
pve
I will agree with you, home-made pizza tastes great and is fun to make with your loved ones!
One of my family’s favorite options for homemade pizza is what we call pizz burgers. You get a lot of different toppings and a pizza sauce of your choice then you lighlty taost a bunch of Enclish muffins and everyone gets to design their own pizzas. The best part is that if you want four of them you can make them all different.
YUM
Interesting that the sauce has romano cheese in it- I’ll have to try that. It’s making me so hungry for pizza now!!
yum!!!
Love your content about gourmet pizza and the way that you write. Makes me want to order pizza hee
Okay, yum. Thanks for the pizza sauce recipe…going to have to add a few of those ingredients to my shopping list.
We usually make a pizza once every week or two… we use our bread machine to make the dough, use spaghetti sauce, costco bag of frozen mozzarella, and whatever other meat/veggies are in the fridge at the time. The best part is that we grill it using our smoker setting on the grill–gives the crust excellent crunch and flavor!
Travis love the pizza burgers. Last night we had spaghetti hotdogs for dinner.
Audrey the pizza on the grill is a great way to do it. I am of the opinion that grilling anything makes it better. Except soup.
Great article! On a family vacation (we usually rent a house somewhere so we have a kitchen) we had “make your own pizza night” with our 6 grandchildren. That was 2 years ago and they still talk about it! These are the kind of fun family things that make happy healthy children.
Thanks Martin for sharing your sauce, sage and money saving tips with us.
Yum! Your pizza sounds great! My husband makes our dough from scratch. Next we are going to learn to make the perfect sauce from scratch. We shall try your recipe!
I love pizza and I heard on a tv cooking show that you can get a cheap pizza stone by using unglazed saltillo tiles that you can buy at Lowe’s or Home Depot for 99 cents.
So I tried it and it works great. I even tried it on the grill.
Looks soo good! I’m going to have to try this recipe!