I’ve been craving some homemade pizza for awhile now.  Last week I finally made a few different variations.  I have a stunning Kitchen Aid gadget, but I chose to buy my dough.

I have to confess I don’t know how to make dough yet.  I need to spend a day playing with that new toy! I’m determined to learn.  I need someone to come play with me and drink wine, then we’ll have twice as much fun learning together.  I see this activity scheduled on a good cool fall day coming up in October perhaps?

Nevertheless, the pizza’s were amazing and buying the dough saves you lots of time.

I wrote down the ingredients below the photos.  The best part is trying a variety of ingredients.  I have more ideas for my next pizza fiesta night!

2 Sauce Veggie Pizza with Mushrooms, regular Mozzarella cheese, some beautiful soft Buffalo Mozzarella & (Basil Pesto Oil, Tomato Sauce drops)

NOTES: The basil pesto, is really a pistou, no cheese or nuts.  Just oil and basil with salt.  Nice and easy can be used so many ways.

Basil Pesto, Buffalo Mozzarella. (pizza not yet cooked) This is mighty tasty!

Calabrese Pizza with Pesto drops (Tomato Sauce base with mushrooms & onions)

Tomato sauce, Mozzarella, Parmesan, onions, mushrooms, and Calabrese rolled up. (not yet cooked)

• For the pizza dough I bought this from Metro in the counter area under their pizza shop.
• For tomato sauce, I pureed one can of cherry tomatoes (Aurora) and some spaghetti sauce, Garden).  Lots of sauce left over from Garden, so can be used for a pasta sauce or Lasagna?
• For the Pistou, simply use one cup packed with fresh basil, add good Virgin Olive Oil and salt in your food processer.  Also check out this page for Pesto recipes with pasta or vegetables.
• The meat was Calabrese Hot.  Was a bit spicy, but tasty. Hubby loved it.
• The Buffallo Mozarella is extremely delicious and special!  Expensive but worth it.  It reminds me of  my Positano visit in Italy, where a family owned farm made this amazing cheese.

Sauce Base combining one can of tomatoes with 1/4 of the Garden Select jar.

This brand of soft Buffalo Mozzarella is good. I purchased it at Foodland in Whitby.