Some Pizza Ideas With BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella and a New Link

We like making pizza at home fairly occasionally.  We enjoy the ownership of making our own food, the flavor, the fun of cooking and the value.  Sure, we get takeout pizza also, but making our own pizza is something we value and frankly do very well.

I have blogged previously that our preferred pizza dough is from Tyler Florence at the Food Network.        It is a great tasting dough with good texture and it is really reliable. This is important because having the basic components of a dish be of good quality is important.  Another important fundamental item for pizza is cheese.  While we have made pizza without mozzarella, it goes on most of our pizza.  Our preferred choice for mozzarella is BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella from Costco.

It is a very high quality cheese and at $6.99 for two pounds of it, the price is really right at Costco.  We also like the convenience of it.  It comes in two separate one pound packages which makes it handy to use.  Finally, it is sliced and that saves some hassle and timel.  All in all a great product at a great price.

Recently, we made a couple of pizzas using some homemade marinara sauce (which we will cover in another post) and some various toppings.

One pizza was topped with marinara, pineapple, ham and finally with cheese.  The other was a triple meat of pepperoni, ham and bacon topped with cheese, although my side of it had mushrooms and olives which are not to my lovely wife's liking.

We really enjoyed both of these pizzas.  The Hawaiian style pizza had a sweeter, brighter taste with the glazed ham and the pineapple.  The triple meat pizza was very hearty and also really hit the spot.

Yes, it is sometimes nice to get pizza from your local place, a chain or Costco but there are also the times when making a killer pizza at home is delicious and satisfying to the heart and the wallet.  And as I write this, we are still dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic and this sort of food and cooking does bring me a sense of accomplishment that helps me to deal with the world.

So make some dough, save some dough and have a delicious pizza.  And for more ideas on what to do with BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella, visit their recipe page that I have added to the link sections.

Take care and be well!

Pizza with Foster Farms Chicken Strips, Dole Pineapple, Sweet Onion and Barbecue Sauce

I saw some lovely Dole Pineapples at Costco recently and I thought a chicken pizza with some barbecue sauce would be a great use of this fruit. My wife agreed and while I was at work, she made the following pizza using:

• 1- 12 inch pizza crust
• 1/4 of a Fresh Golden Dole Pineapple, diced
• 1/2 large Vidalia Onion cut into thirds and thingly sliced
• 1 cup Foster Farms Chicken strips, cut into chunks
• Barbecue sauce to lightly coat the pizza

Below is a photo of the pizza before it went into the oven.

And here it is, cooked and delicious! It was in the oven for about 15 minutes at 425-450 degrees.

As you can see from the photo below, for a pizza, it has a variety of colors and textures going on, plus a very pleasing range of flavors.

Originally, I suggested that we put mozzarella on it, but my lovely wife thought that was not the best idea and I am glad she omitted it.  The final pizza is definitely  much better off without the cheese in this case. This dish has a lot of bright, sweet and tangy flavors and cheese would have muddled that combination.

This meal was a huge success and it will be repeated.  I highly recommend picking up a pineapple at Costco now and then. They are fun, tasty and easy to work with in a wide variety of applications.