October 31
Quite Spooky
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- Vampire Pizza [View Recipe]
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Ingredients
- .5 pound dough
- flour
- 1 cup spicy greens (<howto label="salad"/>)
- 2 cloves garlic
- salt
- .25 cup oil
- 1 tablespoon cheese (freshly grated)
- .25 cup cheese (freshly grated)
- .5 tablespoon rosemary (cleaned and chopped)
- red pepper flakes
Instructions
We preheat our gas grill to medium high heat.
Meanwhile, we divide the dough into 2 portions and stretch to make a thin crust, adding additional flour so that it is not too sticky when we put it on a wax paper lined plate.
We coarsely chop the greens and mince the garlic with a pinch of coarse salt. We get the oil ready in a ramekin and put it on a platter with a pastry brush, a prep bowl of coarse salt, the greens, garlic, cheeses and rosemary. We bring the platter out to the preheated grill along with the pizza dough.
For each little pizza, we coat one side of the dough with oil and place oil-side down on one side of the hot grill. We cook for a few minutes until browned. We spread some more oil on the top and sprinkle with salt. We turn with tongs, still keeping the pizzas on just one side of the grill. We add a little more oil and the toppings of the greens, cheeses, garlic, and rosemary. On the unused (other) side of the grill, we now turn off the heat and then move the pizzas to this cooler part of the grill. We want to melt the cheese and finish cooking the pizzas through.
We serve the pizzas sprinkled with red pepper flakes.
- Regular Grilled Pizza
Both our daughter and our son get credit for assisting with dinner preparation. Pizza is one of their favorite meals because it provides the opportunity for practical application of their excellent dough skills. Giving them control over the preparation seems to be conducive to getting them to eat, which makes the adults happy. They had a plain pizza—similar to that from our earlier recipe.
After waffling on their choice of costumes, the kids left the house tonight as a vampire (our daughter) and a fireman (our son). Trick-or-treating began at Aunt Erin's house. Her neighborhood is well known throughout the area as being big into Halloween. It lived up to its reputation tonight. People-sized blow-up spiders, fog machines, spider webs everywhere—it was something. Before returning to our own neighborhood, we made quick stops at Grammy and Boppy's and then Mrs. Fava's (our daughter's pre-school teacher).
Back in our neighborhood, the kids had themselves a blast. Earlier in the day, Mr. Barry had let it be known that he would be stingy with the candy if the Ravens lost. Well, the Ravens lost, but he apparently could not resist the kids.
Yep, it was a pretty good Halloween. And the pizza must have worked—no vampires. Except for our daughter!