Darek + Stacie

OK, so arguably maybe this isn’t really a New recipe, since we’ve made pizza before – but never quite like this.

We’re trying to eat healthier this year. We don’t eat out much and we don’t eat a whole lot of bad stuff, but our weakness is definitely pizza. We’ve recently started using an online financial service called Mint (.com) that tracks our spending, and I nearly keeled over looking at the total amount spent on pizza.

Also, that Little Caesar’s and Papa John’s crap is just bad for you. Gross. Once in a while, maybe it’s ok, but every week…yuck. Plus, after a while it just tastes like crap.

My awesome friend Martha recently sent us a bread-maker (THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES!!) So we can easily make our own wheat pizza crust.

We’re working our way up to True Whole Wheat pizza crust, but in the meantime use this half wheat/half white recipe that’s very good: Amazing Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

We recently learned that it’s yummy to mix some herbs/spices and minced garlic with olive oil to spread on the dough before adding the other ingredients. Maybe this is common knowledge, but it’s changed our lives.

We also cook the crust on the baking stone for about 8 minutes before adding the toppings so it’s a crispier crust. And we halve the dough for a thin crust (and save the other half for pizza the next night….win-win-win).

We usually don’t put sauce on our pizza. This particular pizza was topped with mozzarella, parmesan, cooked chicken, broccoli, and sliced tomatoes.

And it was freaking amazing.

One of the best pizzas I’ve ever had.

And I’ve had a lot of pizzas.

Some of the ingredients:

And the finished product:

It’s on the menu for this Wednesday and Thursday.