I made a strange no-knead bread with pumpkin seeds and 10-grain cereal. I left it all day while I was at work and baked it off as soon as I got home with the kids. It was so heavy and the fizzle of the yeast was long gone by then. It didn’t budge. It didn’t puff. However, the interior was soft and full of the flavour of the grains and bite of the emerald seeds. The crust wasn’t pretty but had a lovely golden hue. I named it a flat bread and called it a night.
Now I’m stuck with this flat toad of a loaf until we eat it all. I’m not making more bread until this sucker is finished off.
Some digging through the fridge produced deli ham and cheese, plus a red onion. (I had bought the deli foods thinking I was going to bake bread this week to make sandwiches for lunch.) Pizza was my first thought. Split the loaf open and top with some tomato sauce, meat, onion, then cheese.
A quick stint under the broiler was all it took to “bake” my pizza. What I should have done was broil the bread first and then top it, just like the Welsh Rabbit. That would have given the pizza crust some stability once completed. In other words, it was a little soggy, but not so much that it fell apart.
I want to eat this right now!!
Sorry if I made you hungry 😛 I would mail you some but the postal worker probaly would have eaten it!
Look at that pizza!! It looks great. Pizza is the perfect meal to save left overs too (I ate pizza leftovers tonight) 🙂
I often use up roasted chicken as a pizza topping, either homemade or added to a pre-made one.
A bachelor pizza is basically bread sauce meat and cheese baked in a toaster oven or regular oven for several minutes. The ingredients for a basic bachelor pizza are simple..Bread white wheat or rye .Butter Optional .Cheese American Swiss or Mozerella work well .Sauce Pizza Marinara Spaghetti sauce or even Catsup .Garlic Powder.Salt optional .Pepper optional .. While the bread is toasting if you are working with catsup you may want to add some Italian spices to it to give it a bit of zest.
Looks good! My husband and I make a pizza on Friday nights, and the last time we ran out of pizza sauce. My sister told us to mix heavy cream, Parmesan and minced garlic in a saucepan. So good! Do you have a pizza sauce recipe using fresh garden tomatoes?
With fresh tomatoes you seem to need more than you think for a sauce. I haven’t made a pizza sauce from scratch but here’s how I would do it:
– split open a good amount of tomatoes, seed them and dry them (by sun or low oven or food dehydrator)
– fire roast another bunch of tomatoes, peel off the charred skin (I know this sounds time consuming, but I would do it!)
– blend the sun dried and roasted tomatoes until smooth
– pour the blended tomatoes into a sauce pot and simmer for a while to thicken
– taste for salt, add oregano, basil, thyme… what ever you like, even some roasted garlic and parmesan cheese!
– simmer until the sauce is to the consistency you like for pizza
You may end up with extra sauce, I don’t know the ratio of input to output in cups. Just freeze extra sauce or use it for pasta 🙂 If I actually get a good tomato garden next year, I will have to test this theory 😛