Last night I made my very first pizza. And I say it's "semi-homemade" simply because I didn't make the crust from scratch. I've been dying to make a margherita pizza at home for quite some time; it's becoming a pizza flavor I really like. And I figured it would be super simple to make, and it was.
I bought some roma tomatoes (Schnucks has a whole display of organic and heirloom tomatoes, who knew?), the pizza crust, and black olives. Jarrod and I agreed on a half tomato/basil, half olive/basil pizza since he doesn't like sliced tomatoes. The rest of the ingredients I had at home, plus a bunch of fresh basil leaves from his brother (apparently he has basil out the wazzoo.)
I sprayed olive oil over all of the crust, spread a light layer of marinara sauce, then started piling on the cheese, tomatoes, olives, and basil. I baked it for 7 minutes and the result was a light, delicious pizza. It was sooooo good, and I didn't feel gross afterwards like sometimes you do with pizza (you know, because it's so loaded with stuff.) Bonus with making your own: you can control the amount of sauce you have on there. Jarrod said he liked it partially because "it doesn't have an ungodly amount of sauce on it!"
So it was a successful dinner! Not cost effective, versus a store bought frozen pizza, but worth the small effort.
Man, I am on a roll this week. Still planning on the bread Saturday.
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