I posted last week about our chevre mushroom pizza and wanted to follow up since we made pizza again today for lunch. This time I snapped a couple pictures with my phone so I could upload them. I rarely make a recipe unless I see a picture of it (I know that other people feel similarly). My goal is to get better about taking pictures of what I bake/cook. This will probably be easier in a couple weeks when my new phone gets in. For now, I'm working with a very limiting camera phone and my own very limiting creativity.
More information on the dough: This week I made the dough on Saturday night and put it into an oiled zip-lock bag which was then put into the refrigerator (this step takes the place of letting it rise the first time). This morning before we left for Church, I pulled the dough out of the fridge and transferred it from the zip-lock to a mixing bowl. The bowl was then covered and the dough rose while we were gone. It worked out well because when we got home from Church, lunch was already halfway prepared. :)
We're trying to set a pattern of being ready to host guests after Church. Of course, we just moved here and we're just getting to know people at our Church, but we'd like to have our home/meal prepared so that we could invite people over after Church if the opportunity arises. It creates an interesting challenge for me to find a meal that could easily be "expanded" if we had guests and need to stretch the food. But at the same time, we don't want to be wasteful and prepare food that will go uneaten. This is where the pizza dough came in!
Since it was just Caleb and I only used about 2/3 of the dough that was prepared for our pizza (we really could have used 1/2 of it). The remaining dough was put back into the zip-lock and I plan on using it to make breadsticks later this week. That way nothing was wasted and we'll have homemade breadsticks without the hassle of making them right before dinner. I'll probably pair the breadsticks with homemade soup or salad (depending on the weather).
From the pictures it clear that we did one side white bread and one side with a marinara sauce. I whipped up the sauce when we got home because we didn't have any pizza sauce on hand.
Before the oven
Ready to eat!
