Weekend Plans Post: Making a Frozen Pizza into Something Almost not Depressing

There are the circumstances under which you want to make a truly decadent pizza. Maybe you even go out of your way to get a pizza stone and make an even better one.

But, you know, sometimes you just don’t want to put a whole lot of effort in. I mean, you want to put *SOME*. This is food, after all. You’re going to be eating it.

But you’re not so bad off to be in a “just get some of the Stouffer’s French Bread Pizzas and throw them in there” mood. You’re better off than that, if only barely.

Well, for that, I recommend getting a frozen pizza and treating it as if it were a pre-made crust and then turn it into a stuffed pizza. Behold.

Get your ingredients together:

Here’s a somewhat better look:

The Screamin’ Sicilian “Bessie’s Revenge” cheese pizza is the base. Then pepperoni, bacon, onions, peppers, jalapeño peppers, sliced mushrooms (canned), Italian cheese blend, and pizza spices.

Begin by turning on the broiler. You want to get the pizza stone nice and hot while you’re doing this.

Next thing: Bust out your pizza and begin by putting some of the Italian spices from your Italian Spice Grinder on it.

That’s the base. Then apply toppings to taste:

Once everything is on the pizza, sprinkle the cheese on it and then apply a few more of the spices:

Then it’s ready for the stone. The box says 16-18 minutes at 425. We’re not going to do that. We are, instead, going to do 25 minutes at 400. Turn the oven to 400 and put it in there:

25 minutes later:

Here, let’s look at it up close:

Get it on your rack and apply parmesan and red pepper flake and let it sit and cool for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, it’s ready to be cut into sixths and you’ve got yourself 3 meals. And, seriously, look at this after the first cut:

It was pretty good. I don’t want to say that it wasn’t depressing at all… I mean, it’s a frozen pizza. But it was still pretty dang good.

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend! The first of the three gates of summer. I will wander through it doing very little. Laundry, groceries, the usual. Maribou is visiting her bestie in Seattle (hence the frozen pizza) and so there’s an opportunity for mischief such as “seeing a movie” but, to be honest, I will probably not. Get a jog in, maybe go to the gym, explore the joys of a new computer game… but mostly enjoy a three-dayer.

So… what’s on your docket?

(Featured image is Pike’s Peak about a week after it got nailed by the snowstorm that dumped almost a foot on my deck. Photo taken by the author.)