One of my favorite parts of Football Sundays (or Mondays or Thursdays...) is that you have an excuse to cook whatever junk food your heart desires. Usually, I make sure to pick up some supplies at the grocery store or even better, the farmers market, before the big day. Alas, this rainy Sunday morning found us without any special ingredients on hand! I had to come up with something with what we had in the fridge, and fast- we were halfway through the one o'clock games, and we were hungry!
We had a bag of pizza dough from Trader Joe's sitting in the fridge, but frankly, it was whole wheat and the calzones we'd made with it a few nights ago weren't very good. We would need to really doctor this up...
We came up with...drum roll please.... buffalo cheddar chicken sausage pizza!
First I rolled out the dough on some cornmeal. Then I brushed it with olive oil and liberally sprinkled it with Kosher salt. (This particular dough was pretty tasteless last time). I layered on sliced red onions and very thinly sliced fresh tomatoes. I liberally applied some Cholula hot sauce, and sprinkled the whole thing with some garlic powder, red pepper flakes, and oregano. I threw that puppy into the oven to get started cooking. One trick I've found with homemade pizza is, if you layer on too many toppings all at once, it comes out soggy. So to try to avoid such a fate, I cooked the pizza in stages. Once it seemed to be about halfway done, I added some thinly sliced smoked chicken sausage, cheddar cheese and green onions. The whole thing went back into the oven for another few minutes until the cheese was bubbly and the sausage was heated through.
We dipped it in some ranch dressing and decided that we were geniuses! The crust was crisp and just a bit salty, the cholula was spicy, the sausage was smoky, and the onions gave a nice bite to the whole thing. Happy First Football Sunday!!!
-S
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