Surviving Rookie Mistakes

Tonight I made a classic rookie cooking mistake. Ugh. Thanks to my snacking habits it wasn't a total disaster.

I love Boboli. If you have not discovered this amazing ready made pizza shell I suggest you get acquainted.

These are the typical ingredients - A package of 2 individual size crusts, shredded cheese & sauce. I grew up on jar sauce, can't help it, so I get 'fancy' and buy Ragu's pizza sauce.

It's a great easy & interactive dinner. Typically Husband is home and we make together but tonight I was on my own to start out.

This is what a pizza is supposed to look like when all the elements come together. However, tonight things did not go as planned.

Midway through applying the sauce to my crust I realized I hadn't checked on the cheese. Did we have any? Was it any good? Of course it will be!!

WRONG. Half a bag of unedible cheese. Awesome. What the heck am I going to do with sauce on a crust?

*cue mission impossible music*

Enter - the string cheese! aka my saviour!

How great is string cheese - I could eat an entire block of mozzarella so the portion control here is key for me. My favorite snack. Kids love it too as do my fellow kids at heart.

2 string cheese later...ta-da! Pizza about to get cooked in the toaster oven.

I'm really happy about tonight's kitchen adventures for a few reasons

1 - I used what I had in the kitchen. Always a fan of that. Hate making special trips. OK I lie, I love to shop but not last minute on a Monday night!

2 - I thought on my feet. A "make it work" moment for the kitchen if you will.

3 - No freaking out. No tears. No burns. And no phone calls to mommy asking what to do or to Husband asking him to bring home take-out

Go me!

xo,

Michelle

How do you spell disaster?

P-I-Z-Z-A    D-O-U-G-H

Seriously? What was I thinking? 

Reasons why homemade pizza was not a good idea...

1. Deciding at 4:30pm on a Saturday that making anything that involves yeast = not eating till at least 8pm

2. Aside from English Muffin Pizza & Pre-Made Crusts, I've never made this before

3. Apparently I can't read a recipe, and put in 3C of water not 1C (helloo cake batter!)

4. Dough can rise during cooking. News flash to me...

Darling Husband swears it came out ok, tho he did say it was more like a calzone than a pizza. Oh well. When I realized what I had done with the water, I added more flour so now I have enough pizza dough to start my own restaurant. My second and third tries have been better, so I can't beat myself up about it too much but still. LOL

The recipe I used is from here, Fabulous Food Finds. Why? BC I got this brilliant idea to make pizza while on the subway, used my phone to google & this is what came up first. 

Pizza Pics are here, on Flickr.