Shrimp Pizza

Welcome back to the Tiny Ass Kitchen, I hope you've been having as much fun cooking in this Christmas Season as I have.



If you have been following the blog or have been reading any of my past posts you'll know I made some pizza dough in November and I have finally had time to take some of that dough and do something with it!

To begin this whole thing you'll want to defrost your pizza dough, normally I take it out the night before so it's ready the next night for dinner time. Since it should be defrosted, I'll move past that.



Take a can of chopped tomatoes and drain them out.



You can then add the drained tomatoes to a mini chopper or a large food processers if you don't have a mini one, otherwise I don't have a large one, I don't need it and I don't need all that to do the small things I do with mine. Anyway. In this add not only the tomatoes but about 2 cloves of garlic along with some spices like oregano, basil, salt, pepper and whatever else you feel. Pulse it a few times until you get this nice tomato sauce that ::gasp:: isn't from a jar!



Since that is done clean off your counter top and put down some flour because you're going to press out your dough.



Then you're going to put some flour on both sides of the dough and on your hands. Then you can begin to press it out by using the heel of your hand. Don't do it to rough because then you'll rip the dough. You can use a rolling pin, but my mom has it and I was to lazy to go over there and get it, I also make my dough to thin when I use the pin, and when I need a thicker crust I just use my hands.

Oh and don't kill yourself trying to make a circular pizza, leave that to the professionals (but not to Papa Johns or crap like that)



When you get it to the right thickness, then you need to put it in a greased cookie sheet. (doesn't it look a little like Australia?)



Then you can start spooning on your sauce to the dough and spread it around so it's nice and even in all places.



Gracie and Danny were there to supervise this...



Then you can take some shredded mozzarella cheese and spread it all around the pizza. We like a lot of cheese, so yeah. Also note I have some shrimp defrosting on the stove, you can put whatever you want on this pizza, I like shrimp, but you can do tomatoes, broccoli, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, whatever. Just make it your own and enjoy it.



Then go ahead and add whatever topping you want (notice my husband placing his shrimp - he decided to help that night)



Then you can place the pizza in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes.

You can make a side salad in this time too so you can have something additional to your pizza.



When it's done, I have to say, not only does it look good, but it tastes even better. The whole wheat dough is so tasty, it's not gritty and really makes you enjoy the pizza without feeling horribly guilty. The smell in the house is wonderful too, but what's even better is you save lots of money doing it at home so you can enjoy your pizza a little more often.

Happy cooking!