Gourmet Pizzas

Remember how I said that my family would be happy if only I fed them pizza 4 days a week? Well, I don't mind pizza so much as long as it's not pepperoni. Actually my favorite pizza combo is pineapples and black beans or kidney beans. Mmmmmm!
But, if we are going to have pizza so often I am going to experiment with my options. I really like the Papa Murphey's chicken garlic alfredo pizza or whatever it's called. So this week I made an Alfredo pizza using my regular Alfredo sauce recipe and adding broccoli and chicken chunks. Here is the sauce recipe:

Alfredo Sauce

2 Tbs Butter
2 Tbs flour
(melt the butter and wisk in the flour)
Slowly add:
1 cup water and 1 tsp bouillon (I really like the vegetable broth powder on the simple healthy tasty website)
1/2 cup milk
Keep stirring as it thickens
Add:
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese (Use freshly shredded. DO NOT buy the already shredded stuff. Gross!)

So that's the basic recipe. You could also add mushrooms, pepper, parsley, garlic, whatever you want.

So I made that recipe and I added in some chopped steamed broccoli, chopped green onion and half a can of chicken chunks (If I had had some tomatoes I would have chopped those up and added them too). I spread it on my pizza crust and then sprinkled garlic salt and parsley over the top and baked it at 400 for about 12 min.

The consensus:  If I were to rate this recipe I would give it 2 out of 5 stars. It was ok. Wayne said it has potential. It was a bit too soupy for a pizza sauce, but we still ate and finished the pizza, so it was fine. HOWEVER! The Alfredo sauce recipe is 5 out of 5 stars on noodles, served with freshly made bread sticks. I'll just have to work on the gourmet pizza recipe.

Fast and Easy Pizza Sauce

I made some pizza tonight and after getting the crust into the oven I realized I was out of Hunt's spaghetti sauce which is what I always use for my pizza sauce. Being out of it reminded me of how irritated I am with Hunt's right now. You see I wouldn't have been out because I meant to buy some recently but then saw that they have shrunken their can size by almost 1/3 and kept the price the same. I hate when company's do that! Anyway, it led me to do a quick online search for "easy pizza sauce" and this is what I found. But I didn't have all the ingredients so I tweaked it like this:

Josie's easy pizza sauce:

1 can Italian style tomatoes (14.5 oz, un-drained)

1 (6oz) can tomato paste

Oregano

Garlic salt

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp sugar

Put all the ingredients in the blender, blend them up and then spread on your pizza crust. For the garlic salt and the oregano I just sprinkled in some, so you can decide how much you want.

It turned out really good, I thought, and Audrey ate three pieces of pizza, so that say's a lot.