Summer Grilled Pizza

So, today's Food Section of the Deseret News reminded me to do this post.

On Sunday we had pizza cooked on the grill.

Last year I attended a local Williams-Sonoma, Saturday-morning cooking class and they gave us (as typical) instructions on how to make the food item of the class and here an easy pizza dough in the food processor and then build several pizza variations. We made a couple of these last summer when it was hot and again last Sunday we had another. In addition to making this outside on the grill, another fun thing was using the basil and cherry tomatoes from our own garden. (I've realized that most of my recipes using basil are for heavy, Italian foods; and hence more applicable for cold weather when my garden basil will be frozen. So it was good to use the basil now.)


I had bought this pizza stone last year, which came with a paddle to hold the pizza while making it and also a rack to hold the stone, but it occurred to me that when the pizza was finished cooking and leaving it on the stone would cause it to over cook; doesn't make sense. But maybe I'm just dense . . .

I thought about going out and milk a buffalo and make my own "buffalo's-milk mozzarella" cheese also, but couldn't find a buffalo nearby. I didn't want to drive to Antelope Island and wrestle a beast. I don't think I could even milk a cow as my mother used to do when she was growing up.

This is a woman's pizza since it doesn't have any meat on it but only veggies. (I think every man loves an all meat pizza, why is that.) Still it was fun for a hot, Sunday afternoon. Plus Sparky liked it! That's always a bonus. I discovered later that we have some pepperoni, so I could have added that to one half, but . . .

This is called a Margarita pizza in Italy. Sparky and I actually had the same thing there one time in Florence except that it also had an egg cooked in the middle, Fun!

But, back to the Deseret News. The food section had a number of articles on building your own pizza, either from scratch or preferably by just enhancing a store-bought one.

A fun, cooking idea that the kids could get into and make their own.