Happy Friday, friends!
Today I thought I would share a favorite of mine and Cowboy's. We both prefer cooking at home over eating out. For me, it's both a matter of saving money and knowing what's in the food I'm eating. Not that we never eat processed foods (the BBQ sauce is, in fact, store-bought and I'm sure nowhere near healthy), but I like keeping those items to a minimum.
One day in February, we had a massive snow storm in the Kansas City area and, when my office closed its doors for the day, I got a full-blown adult snow day. It.was.AWESOME. Since roads were bad and pretty much every business was closed (even Wal-Mart closed!), we needed to make a dinner with what we had. Luckily, I had all of the ingredients for Krissy's from-scratch pizza dough, so I looked to see what else I had. I found mozzarella, BBQ sauce and had a bag of frozen chicken. Hence...a BBQ chicken pizza was born.
I boiled the chicken & shredded it, then layered the BBQ sauce, shredded chicken and mozzarella on top of the already-baked pizza crust. Ten minutes later (once the cheese was melted and golden), we had this beauty!
So maybe this is less a recipe and more a lesson on cooking with what you have when you get stuck inside on a snow day. (Prep for the winter that seems like it will never come, I suppose!)
What kind of foods have you guys made up on the spot?
Looks so wonderful! I love BBQ chicken pizza
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try that dough recipe next. I've never found one that I absolutely fell in love with, and your picture looks yum.my. I luuuuurve BBQ pizza.
ReplyDeleteHave ever tried it with purple onions and cilantro. Nom, nom, nom. Mouth-watering. Okay, must quit. Have a fantastic weekend!
I made some kind of BBQ Chicken Pizza when I was in a nutrition/family living class in highschool, and it was pretty good! This makes me want to dig out that recipe and give it a try! You know what would make this even better?! Grill it! I have yet to try it, but I keep saying I'm going too, sounds so good!
ReplyDeleteI actually use half bread flour and half whole wheat...it makes it fluffy, but gets some whole wheat in there too! And I LOOOOVE purple onions and cilantro on it. Girl, you're speaking my love language when you mention cilantro! (Read this: http://myellowumbrella.blogspot.com/2011/01/otb-chicken-tortilla-soup.html)
ReplyDeleteSo funny story...my friend and I tried to grill pizza last week and he dough totally flopped...as in flopped right through the grate! We're going to make some alterations to the dough and try again!
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