Are you loving the $10 meals?

I had such a great time creating them for Sweetbay Supermarket. All the recipes needed to be tasty, easy, family friendly AND $10 or under. And this Beef and Flatbread Pizza is no exception.
Don’t get sucked into the freezer department to pick up a frozen pizza. Those are so boring.
I love using Naan Flatbread as my pizza crust base. There is no messing around with pizza dough, it tastes delicious and it gets nice and crunch on the bottom. It’s a win win situation.
If you ask me, pasta is the perfect side for pizza. My tomato garlic pasta is not only easy but it is packed with flavor.
Are you sensing a theme here?
Easy and delicious!

Sweetbay Supermarkets Butchers have a tip to cut out some of the fat from ground beef….
“Cook without seasoning. Rinse briefly with hot water in a colander and blot dry. Return to the pan for a minute and add the seasonings to taste.”

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Pizza dough is for the birds. Don’t get me wrong, I make pizza all the time for my kids using fresh pizza dough,but it’s a pain, and all they want on the pizza is cheese. So they get plain ol boring cheese pizza with leftovers for their lunch.
For the hubby and I, I make Naan pizza. You get 2 pieces in a package, so thats one for me and one for him. I love it because I can make my own personal “pizza” with all the toppings I want and then a personalized one for the hubs.

Have you not seen Naan in your stores. Mine keeps it by the deli.
Stonefire is my favorite, it has perfect texture and it somes in 3 different flavors, Original,Garlic and Whole grain. Pick up some Naan next time you are at the store. You will be pleasantly surprised at the delicious-ness and the million things you can do with it!
I have been buying their brand for a while now, but they did send me some for free!! Wahhooo, the perks of being a food blogger.

There is not much of a recipe, just throw what you like on your Naan. And throw it in a 400 degree oven until the cheese melts. Below is the recipe for my Naan Pizza

Below is what happened when I tried to transfer my nice round pre baked pizza from the back of the heavily corn mealed cookie sheet. Everything went everywhere and ended up all piled up on top of itself.

These little charred pieces of who knows what that flew off the pizza during the transfer nightmare, is what almost caught my house on fire. The smoke was billowing out of the stove, quickly filling up my house. Still laughing and yelling a few choice words running around my house opening all the doors and windows before the smoke alarms went off!!!

This pizza is Classic red sauce, chicken, caramelized onions and bacon.

Below consists of Classic red sauce, ricotta cheese, caramelized onion,basil and provolone cheese

And last but not least…..the STAR of the show
BLUEBERRY w/ brown sugar marscapone cheese, crumb topping..oh no, its missing something!!

Ahhhhh, here we go
the HOMEMADE DUCLE DE LECHE drizzle

What is the picture below you might ask???I slid the Blueberry pizza off the pizza stone on to my cutting board. My sister was sitting on one side of my island and me on the other. Without even putting the pizza on a plate, we both took a bite. The Ohhhh’s and ahhhhh’s started and continued with EACH bite! I think this was the best thing I have ever tasted!! I told my husband he better get some if he wanted any. my sister and I continued to eat and eat and eat! We couldn’t stop, we were like crack addicts! My husband came into the kitchen about 5 minutes later to eat some and there was only a TINY little square left! He said, “GOOD LORD, you guys ate it all”. Yes I must admit I ate a half of a pizza. It was a VERY VERY small pizza, but still! Who does that?? Who eats a half a pizza? Yours truly here..the will power issue Queen!!!

And let me tell you what a pain in the ass it was to clean my massive BOOS Block cutting board that was completely stained with blueberry juice!!! But boy was it worth it!

A special thanks to Rosa at Rosa’s Yummy Yums for hosting this delicious challenge. She did it solo because on of our Daring Bakers, Sherry, passed away tragically just prior to hosting this challenge with Rosa.

BASIC PIZZA DOUGH

~Original recipe taken from “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice” by Peter Reinhart

Makes 6 pizza crusts (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter).

Ingredients:

4 1/2 Cups (20 1/4 ounces/607.5 g) Unbleached high-gluten (%14) bread flour or all purpose flour, chilled

1 3/4 Tsp Salt

1 Tsp Instant yeast

1/4 Cup (2 ounces/60g) Olive oil or vegetable oil (both optional, but it’s better with)

1 3/4 Cups (14 ounces/420g or 420ml) Water, ice cold (40° F/4.5° C)

1 Tb sugar

Cornmeal for dusting

DAY ONE

1. Mix together the flour, salt and instant yeast in a big bowl (or in the bowl of your stand mixer)

2. Add the oil, sugar and cold water and mix well (with the help of a large wooden spoon or with the paddle attachment, on low speed) in order to form a sticky ball of dough. On a clean surface, knead for about 5-7 minutes, until the dough is smooth and the ingredients are homogeneously distributed. If it is too wet, add a little flour (not too much, though) and if it is too dry add 1 or 2 teaspoons extra water

NOTE: If you are using an electric mixer, switch to the dough hook and mix on medium speed for the same amount of time.The dough should clear the sides of the bowl but stick to the bottom of the bowl. If the dough is too wet, sprinkle in a little more flour, so that it clears the sides. If, on the contrary, it clears the bottom of the bowl, dribble in a teaspoon or two of cold water.The finished dough should be springy, elastic, and sticky, not just tacky, and register 50°-55° F/10°-13° C

3. Flour a work surface or counter. Line a jelly pan with baking paper/parchment. Lightly oil the paper

4. With the help of a metal or plastic dough scraper, cut the dough into 6 equal pieces (or larger if you want to make larger pizzas).

5. Sprinkle some flour over the dough. Make sure your hands are dry and then flour them. Gently round each piece into a ball

6. Transfer the dough balls to the lined jelly pan and mist them generously with spray oil. Slip the pan into plastic bag or enclose in plastic food wrap

7. Put the pan into the refrigerator and let the dough rest overnight or for up to thee days.

NOTE: You can store the dough balls in a zippered freezer bag if you want to save some of the dough for any future baking. In that case, pour some oil(a few tablespooons only) in a medium bowl and dip each dough ball into the oil, so that it is completely covered in oil. Then put each ball into a separate bag. Store the bags in the freezer for no longer than 3 months. The day before you plan to make pizza, remember to transfer the dough balls from the freezer to the refrigerator

DAY TWO

8. On the day you plan to eat pizza, exactly 2 hours before you make it, remove the desired number of dough balls from the refrigerator. Dust the counter with flour and spray lightly with oil. Place the dough balls on a floured surface and sprinkle them with flour. Dust your hands with flour and delicately press the dough into disks about 1/2 inch/1.3 cm thick and 5 inches/12.7 cm in diameter. Sprinkle with flour and mist with oil. Loosely cover the dough rounds with plastic wrap and then allow to rest for 2 hours

9. At least 45 minutes before making the pizza, place a baking stone on the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven as hot as possible (500° F/260° C).

NOTE: If you do not have a baking stone, then use the back of a jelly pan. Do not preheat the pan

10. Generously sprinkle the back of a jelly pan with semolina/durum flour or cornmeal. Flour your hands (palms, backs and knuckles). Take 1 piece of dough by lifting it with a pastry scraper. Lay the dough across your fists in a very delicate way and carefully stretch it by bouncing it in a circular motion on your hands, and by giving it a little stretch with each bounce. Once the dough has expanded outward, move to a full toss

NOTE: Make only one pizza at a time.During the tossing process, if the dough tends to stick to your hands, lay it down on the floured counter and reflour your hands, then continue the tossing and shaping. In case you would be having trouble tossing the dough or if the dough never wants to expand and always springs back, let it rest for approximately 5-20 minutes in order for the gluten to relax fully,then try again.You can also resort to using a rolling pin, although it isn’t as effective as the toss method.

11. When the dough has the shape you want (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter – for a 6 ounces/180g piece of dough), place it on the back of the jelly pan, making sure there is enough semolina/durum flour or cornmeal to allow it to slide and not stick to the pan

12. Lightly top it with sweet or savory toppings of your choice.

13. Slide the garnished pizza onto the stone in the oven or bake directly on the jelly pan. Close the door and bake for abour 5-8 minutes