Pizza night

We usually get pizza once a week and have found a great local place that prepares everything for you, and you take it home to bake. It's become our preferred take out pizza. Occassionally I do make our own using the Pillsbury dough that you roll out, I'll put some olive oil on, pre-bake it a little bit, then finish it off with the toppings. Usually it's a bbq chicken w/ red onion. We really like it.

I recently found a couple ingredients that are a little better than what I'm used to or would have normally chosen for my pizzas. I try to find products with the least amount of ingredients in them and least processed in general. So at my last grocery trip I opted for 100% whole wheat Boboli crust instead of the white refrigerated Pillsbury dough. You'd either find it near the bread or in the pasta aisle. I liked the small size of them, so I got two.

Here's the rest:

Baked each at 450 for 8-10 mins. on a parchment lined baking sheet.

Pizza #1
1 package of Jimmy Dean all natural pork sausage
2 Tbs olive oil
1-2 cups shredded part-skim mozz (monterey jack also melts and binds well, or a shredded Italian mix of cheese would be even better!)
12 oz of the generic pizza sauce

I broke up and cooked the sausage in olive oil and drained it. Add the sauce to the crust, little bit of cheese, sausage and the rest of the cheese; however you like it. Bake 8-10 mins.

(I was also going to add some left over tomatoes from our salad last night, but the girls ate them all while I was cooking the meat). :)

Pizza #2
1 package of chicken tenders
1 Tbs olive oil
Baby spinach leaves*
Shredded Italian blend or part-skim mozz
Sprinkling of olive oil and parmesan for the crust
(I didn't do this, but sun-dried tomatoes would have been really good with this too)

Season uncooked chicken with salt and pepper. I used the same pan from the sausage and kept some of the oil. You can either empty that out and add another 2 Tbs oil, or leave it (which I did for the flavor) and add an extra 1 Tbs oil. Cook over med/high. Sprinkle the second crust with some olive oil and parm and bake for 2 minutes to absorb it and melt the cheese a little bit. Take it out, add the chicken, then spinach and top with your shredded cheese. Bake 8-10 mins.

*Note: For the spinach leaves, I just used some that were left in the pre-packaged bag that we had with dinner last night. I never feel like having salad two days in a row, and it usually goes bad. I'm glad I could use it for something.

Lance and the kids really liked the sausage pizza, I had one piece, and I'm having my second of the chicken one while Ava is running in and out of the kitchen asking for pieces of it.

Easy, successful, everyone ate and in a timely manner :) My kind of dinner.