Our Hot Hawai'ian Pizza (796 calories per half pizza)

As I've said before, I love pizza.  As I've also said before, the Carryout and Take-&-Bake are practically salt licks.  They taste delicious, often, but, they will make you spend the rest of the night guzzling water.  The ONLY way around this is to make your own, so you can control everything that goes into it.

Out here, in the Fresno, California area, we have a pretty good, if not grammatically challenged, local chain, called, "Me 'N Eds."  They make tasty pizza, for the most part, though overly salty, IMHO.  One of our favorites, is their "Hot Hawai'ian" pizza.  It has chicken, pineapple, cheese, ranch, and BBQ sauce, to name a few.  It is, frankly, delicious.  Kasi and I decided to make our own.

First, place a pizza stone in your oven, or on your grill, and preheat the oven or grill to 400 degrees.

Using the Olive Oil Dough we wrote about here, we rolled our pizza dough out on a floured surface, to a rough 16" round.

We then transfered it to our pizza peel, covered in cornmeal (to enable it to slide onto our pizza stone easier), and rolled up the edges to create a nice crust edge to hold on to, and give a border to any sauce used.  In this case we laid out a layer of Light Buttermilk Ranch Dressing as a sauce.

On top of the sauce we distributed, evenly, sliced mushrooms and red onions.

Some cooked and diced boneless chicken breast.

Then added shredded mozzarella cheese.

A smattering of pineapple chunks and jalapeno slices.

Crisscrossed the top with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce.

And then placed it directly on the preheated pizza stone, and baked it for 14 minutes.

I just love the way this pizza crust crisps up, and how the edges rise and bubble, and get crisp.  The pizza itself was delicious.  Sweet and tangy, with the bight of the jalapenos on every piece.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 portion Olive Oil Bread Recipe

2 Tbs Light Buttermilk Ranch dressing

5 button mushrooms thinly sliced

1/3 cup red onion, thinly sliced

1/2 cup diced cooked chicken breast meat

1/2 cup diced pineapple chunks

1/4 cup pickled and sliced jalapenos

1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

1/4 cup Sweet Baby Rays BBQ Sauce

One pizza feeds two people @ 796 calories for each half of a pizza.