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One of my favorite ways to make pizza is on the grill. Yes, we grilled again tonight! It is summer, after all... I can buy pre-made pizza dough at a couple of my regular grocery stores. Trader Joe's even regularly stocks a whole wheat version, so that's what we started with tonight. I follow the basic directions from Allrecipes.com found here. It's really quite fast and easy - the hardest part is stretching and managing the dough before it goes on the grill, but I've found if I put the stretched dough on some cornmeal, it really helps avoid some disasters.
Instead of sauce, I used canned diced tomatoes. And for toppings tonight, I made a sort of Hawaiian pizza with ham and pineapple. I also added some green peppers for extra veggies.
The picture above already has the pizza cut up and ready to go. We've been bringing these quick, homemade pizzas to the Concerts on the Common. If there was one thing I could change for the "table" version, it would be to figure out a way to cook the toppings a little more - it cooks so fast on the grill that the toppings don't have much of a chance to get all crispy.
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I was totally excited to make a blenderized version of this recipe for my little guy's g-tube. When Morty was eating easily by mouth, pizza was one of his favorite meals. Yes, I fed my little guy pizza.
I saved about 1/3 of the dough for the blend, spread it out, and basically just cooked it on the grill with the other pizzas.
The test for this blend is how well the mozzarella cheese would blend. I'm keeping the volume to 2 tablespoons to see how it goes... I'm worried it will be soft when I blend it up, but then it will get solid and thicken everything up in the fridge. I don't mind pushing a thick blend through a syringe, but the potential for blow-outs is higher.
| Whole Milk | 1 cup |
| flavored Kefir - 1% milkfat | 1/2 cup |
| Welch's Grape Juice | 1/2 cup |
| Whole wheat pizza dough | 5 g |
| banana | 1/2 small |
| pineapple tidbits | 1/2 cup |
| Italian style diced tomatoes | 1/2 cup |
| green pepper | 4 oz |
| ham | 2 oz |
| part-skim mozzarella cheese | 2 T |
| olive oil | 2 T |
| Children's Multivitamin | 1/2 tablet |
| calcium chews supplement | 1/2 chew |
| Volume (oz) | 36 |
| Cal/oz | 31.3 |
| Cal/cc | 1.0 |
| % Fat | 15% |
| % Carbohydrates | 66% |
| % Protein | 19% |
Great blog! I'm a mom to 2 tubies and have just started experimenting with blending. I make grilled pizza all the time in the summer....my trick to getting the toppings just right....I saute the peppers and onions until about halfway done on the stove and then throw the ham and pineapple in the skillet to heat it through, then top the pizza, add the cheese and grilled until melty :)
ReplyDeleteThanks LDK - good advice! I've also done the trick where you stick it in the oven at the end to cook it a little more...
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