Thursday, July 24, 2008

BBQ Pizza!

We made the BBQ Pizza on Wednesday night. I had it on my Menu Plan Monday to try out this week. It was so easy and I have to say it was probably the best pizza I have ever eaten! The pizza crust was good and so was the sauce and both were quick and easy. We did learn a few things not to do and next time will probably be even better. We started with only two crusts on the BBQ to start. My DH closed the lid and we were going to wait the ten minutes like the video said. Well, the mistake we made was putting the crust right over the hot colds. When he opened the lid just a couple minutes later it was starting to burn! So we moved them to the side and put the toppings on. The next two we placed to the side of the coals.
We added the toppings and then shut the lid for a few more minutes. We kept checking on the progress so we wouldn't have the same problem. It probably only took about eight minutes for them to be done.
This is before the cheese got nice and melted. They looked really good when we were taking them off the grill. And when we ate them they were oh so good!

And the DH of course got to have a cold one while he was doing the hard work of BBQing!
So here are some things that we will do differently next time:
1. Watch the coals so that they are not real hot and don't put crust right over them.
2. I will probably not roll the dough out as thinly as I did.
3. I did add extra herbs to the sauce to give more flavor. I added dried basil, garlic, onion and a little bit of sugar.
4. We will try different toppings and let the kids decided what to put on their own pizza!
If you have never done this before, you gotta try it. I would say from start (making the dough) to finish (eating at the table) only took about 40 minutes. That's only about ten minutes longer than Domino's Pizza guarantees delivery and this was so much better! Give it a try and let me know how you liked it!

4 comments:

Jennifer in TX said...

This looks so good--I love the recipe for the crust--no rising time--that always does me in...my crust has a one hour rising time, though it is tasty!

Trudy said...

Wow - who'd have thought? They look delicious. I appreciate the troubleshooting tips and will take a look at the video. I think everyone would love these!

Busymama Karen said...

It looks delicious and fun!

Anonymous said...

alright let me get this str aight os there is no confusion. there isn't really a thirty minute "guarantee." the guarantee is that "if the cutomer is disatisfied then we will make it right or the pizza is free" or something like that. i guess some delivery driver a while back ran a light and killed some people so this way we get the pizza to the customer as fast and safely as possible.