Cheat on Quick Pizza and Garlic Sticks
23 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Food, Food Tip Tags: Cheat, Food, Garlic, garlic powder, garlic salt, Oven, Pizza, Square Pizza Stone
Yesterday, was a pizza day. I had made some cupcakes earlier in the day, and decided that since the oven was already hot, I’d be having pizza for supper. I was going to make a pizza dough from scratch, but cheated with with some frozen pre-baked pizza rounds which had been purchased from the grocery store and stuffed into my freezer.
One of the pizza crusts had broken into three pieces while in my freezer. So, I went ahead and made a pizza on another crust.
If you don’t have a pizza stone, I highly recommend it. Get the largest one you can find to fit in your oven. Mine is square. I love my square pizza stone. It fits nicely in my oven, and I don’t have to worry about getting my pizza to be perfectly round, or to land perfectly on the stone. More on my love of the Pizza Stone another time.
I had a round one before (It broke, I thought it could handle the heat of being on the floor of my oven, but I was wrong). It was difficult to manoeuvre a fresh pizza onto a round pizza stone… Especially, if your home-made crust is not exactly round, or too big for said round pizza stone.
Anyway, prepared pizza crusts are the way to go. I was going to make a crust from scratch. However, I did not have an hour to spare to wait for the dough to rise. My time-management is not quite perfected yet, but one of these days… So prepared crust, sauce in a can, and a few toppings, and bada-bing! One pizza.
The Garlic Stick resulted in using the broken crust. Instead of chucking out the pieces, I spread some olive oil on top, sprinkled a healty dose of garlic powder (NOT garlic salt – which is garlic powder mixed with salt) and a few grains of sea salt on top. Baked it all on the pizza stone. It was delicious. However, the crust I refused to garbage was definitely the consistency of cardboard.
So, the take home points are:
- Home made pizza crusts are always best.
- Prepared pizza crusts are handy when short on time.
- Large, square pizza stones are the way to go, forget the round stones.
- While flavourful, the texture of garlic sticks made from using store bought, frozen pizza crust leaves little to be desired.
