Bill's Pizza Kitchen

I will openly admit that I am a huge cheap ass. I try to spend as little as possible every chance I can. Now that I no longer live with my parents and pay for everything myself this has taken my cheapness to new heights. One area where I save the most money is food. I don't eat much as it is but what I do eat doesn't cost much. One thing we splurged on a few times was pizza. There is a place near us that sells a extra large pizza for only $6 during the week. That is a good deal, but not good enough for me. So I decided we should make our own pizza. This may just be the best idea I ever had, because we did it, and it turned out good, really good. For the crust we used Kroger brand "Just Add Water" pizza dough mix. Sauce we just used Kroger brand pizza sauce, the cheese was Kroger brand pizza cheese, and the pepperonis were obviously Kroger brand as well. The best part is that is only costs like $2 to make a big pizza. It really wasn't too hard to make. But a tip, make sure to put some oil on the dough after you mix it and on your hands when you shape it in the pan or else it will stick to your hands like crazy. Here is a picture of our first attempt.

If it looks a little orange thats mainly due to the ligthing in our kitchen as well as my cameraphone, well that and it all the pepperoni make it a bit greasy. But that was only our first attempt and I think it looks really good considering. And more importantly it also tasted very good. After that we got confident and the ideas starting flooding in, different toppings etc. So we decided to make our own stuffed crust pizza. We doubled the dough to have enough for a crust to wrap around the cheese. And for the cheese in the crust we just put mozarella cheese sticks in it. We also opted to put the toppings below the cheese. Here is a picture of that.

To be honest, it didn't work that well. I still tasted good, but the stuffed crust was a total failure, you couldn't taste the cheese in it and it was dry. Live and learn. We also used our pizza pan this time, which has holes in the bottom to make it crispier, but the dough also started to go through those holes when forming it, so its tricky business.
I think we are just gonna do another round of pepperoni before trying something different, but I think the next specialty pizza well be a barbecue chicken. If you have never made your own pizza before, give it a try. Its easy to do, and even if you screw it up, it will only cost you a few dollars and 25 minutes.
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