Jan 17 2009
Frigid Fridays Or How I Learned To Stuffed A Deep Dish Pizza & Eat It All
It's cold in Nashville. Before I move on, I don't wanna hear anything about "it's cold in Michigan, waaaaaah..." Bottom line is that it's 14ºF as I type this with the high temp for the last 24 hours being 19ºF and the low 4ºF. I know that's a little warmer than Nashville's record -17ºF low (which I remember), but I don't care who you are that is cold. So cold that instead of going out to have Mexican food with Dan we decided to just stay in, make sure we don't end up with dogcicles and make this awesome pizza wonderfulness.
A week or so ago Larry posted this link to a recipe for stuffed deep dish pizza and it sounded so good that I immediately told Megan that we had to have it soon. Megan got all the ingredients that I would need to make the pizza today and when I got home from work I got to prepping. Megan left to go get her hair trimmed and when she got back I was just slipping my wonderful creation into the oven. The filling that they used in the original recipe sounded alright but I wanted AWESOME. And let me tell you, AWESOMEness was achieved!
Instead of making dough from scratch Megan found whole wheat pizza dough at Trader Joe's which was awesome and a huge time saver. I started with that and filled it with fresh garlic, fresh broccoli, cremini mushrooms, artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, bacon, fresh spinach, pesto and three layers of mozzarella, shaved Parmesan and goat cheese. The top layer was covered in tomato basil marinara, and more mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.
We enjoyed this deliciousness while watching Ed Harris' Appaloosa. I enjoyed it quite a lot. First of all it's a Western, but the cinematography was really nice and the dialog was fantastic. Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons, along with Harris, delivered fine performances that more than made up for Renée Zellweger's inclusion in the film. All around a good night with my Meggo. But, seriously, the pizza was AWESOME. Just take a look:
For breakfast tomorrow morning I plan on making blueberry chocolate pancakes. Hopefully that will happen because Ive wanted to for a while.