Pats Delicious Semi Homemade Italian Pizza Food

SEMI-HOMEMADE GOURMET PIZZA

Steps:

• Spread out pillsbury pizza crust & flatten as much as you can. They tend to rise quite a bit.
• Spread both sides with olive oil.
• Sprinkle both sides generously with italian or pizza seasoning.
• Bake at 350 for 12 minutes and remove from oven.
• While baking crust, begin preparing ingredients. Chop and saute sausage until browned.
• Remove from pan & spoon into separate bowl.
• Add onion, basil, mushrooms and tomato slices into saute pan and add dash of olive oil (my husband didn't care for the tomatoes, but they were easily removed after cooking).
• Cook veggies until onions are translucent and remove from heat.
• Flip crust over so that crusty side is facing up and spoon sauce onto crust.
• Sprinkle sausage and veggie mixture over sauce.
• Sprinkle mozzarella cheese evenly onto pizza and top with colby jack cheese.
• Bake pizza at 350 for 15 minutes.
• Cool for a few minutes and slice into 8 pieces.

PAT'S DELICIOUS SEMI-HOMEMADE ITALIAN PIZZA

Steps:

• Pour the two packets of pizza dough mix into a large mixing bowl. Add the water and mix with a fork until a ball forms. Ignore the package directions and do the following: cover with a damp towel and set in a warm place for 15 minutes, allowing the dough to rise a bit.
• Preheat the oven to 450-degrees F.
• After the dough his risen, spray a 16-inch (or 18-inch) pizza pan with the cooking spray (I use an olive oil spray) and place the dough ball in the center. Wash your hands and rub the 1 teaspoon of olive oil on them -- work the pizza dough out toward the edges. TAKE YOUR TIME! When this is accomplished, place the pizza dough in the preheated oven for 8-9 minutes until there is some VERY SLIGHT BROWNING here and there on the dough. Remove it from the oven and allow it to cool for 3-4 minutes so you can work the sauce on to it without burning your hands.
• Once you have the sauce on the pizza, sprinkle on the sliced olives and any other toppings you wish, (such as cooked sausage, banana peppers, etc., but NOT the pepperoni). Then, cover the pizza evenly with the cheeses. Cover the pizza with the pepperoni slices and sprinkle the basil all over the pizza.
• Return the pizza to the 450-degree F. oven, on the rack just below the center, for about 10 more minutes, until you just get some slight browning on the cheese. Remove from the oven and slice with a pizza cutter. Wait 2 minutes before plating up the pizza.
• NOTE: This makes a super covered dish if you get the pizza ready for the final baking and then do the final baking on-site. Cut it into 2-inch squares for this. I like to take 2 or 3 pizzas along for this as you'll see that it disappears much faster then the entree dish!