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Crescent Roll Pizza
Posted by Thomas in alternative pizza, cheese pizza, cresent pizza, pepperoni and ham pizza, pizza recipe on May 11, 2009
This one is actually one of my mom’s recipes. Apparently when I went off to college she started trying out all kinds of new recipes, this being one of them. I had no intentions to cook this today, but my mom really wanted to make it, so that’s what we did.
The reason this pizza is unique is mainly because of the crust. Instead of a traditional pizza crust, my mom opted for a crescent roll crust. I am a huge fan of crescent rolls, so as soon as she showed me that was what she was planning on using as the crust I got excited. Also, since I’m trying to watch what I eat we decided to use turkey pepperoni and fat free cubed ham. I didn’t notice any lack in taste and I actually enjoyed it more so than a typical pizza because it wasn’t anywhere near as greasy.
Anyways, remember that this is a very general alternative pizza recipe, you can use just about anything you want to throw on this pizza. My girlfriend’s parents like to make pizza at home as well and they tend to use an already made pizza crust and they grill some bacon and vegetables and throw that on top of the pizza. So again, this is just one of the many options you have with this pizza recipe.
Ingredients:
2 Cans of Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations
1/2 Jar of Bertolli Vineyard Marinara (8oz)
John Morrel Diced Ham (8oz)
Turkey Pepperoni (6oz)
Shredded Cheese (8oz)
IngredientsOptional Ingredients:
Any meat
Any cheese
Any vegetables
Step 1: Unroll both sheets of the Crescent roll onto a cookie sheet, overlapping them slightly. Bake them in the oven as the instructions on the can indicate.
Two sheets of crescent rollStep 2: Once the crust is done baking, take the sauce and pour it in the center of the sheet of crust. Take a spoon and spread it around evenly, leaving about half an inch border around the crescent crust, this allows the crust to get a little crispy on the edges.
Step 3: Spread all but about a handful of cheese over the sauce evenly.
Cheese and Sauce
Step 4: Throw the diced ham and pepperoni on top of the cheese spreading it evenly. If you’d like any other toppings, throw them on as well. If the toppings require cooking before hand, do so. You probably don’t want to throw any raw toppings on top unless they are meant to be raw.
Step 5: Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top of the toppings.
Pizza with all the toppings on it. The ham is under the pepperoni.Step 6: Put the pizza back in the oven at the same temperature you used to cook the crescent roll. Leave it in for about 15 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the toppings are cooked.
Done! Enjoy your pizza. This was my first time having this and I actually liked it more with every piece I had. It’s much lighter than a normal pizza, and the pasta sauce is a nice change to the normal pizza sauce. There are tons of options with this pizza, or with any pizza really. Just try different ingredients and you can easily use this recipe over and over again.
Spaghetti with Sausage
-1/2 lb of spaghetti
-your favorite Ragu Pasta Sauce
-fresh Italian sausage
-salt and pepper
(makes one hefty or two normal servings)
My recommendations for ingredients:
-1/2 lb of whole wheat spaghetti
-Ragu Robusto Parmesan & Romano Pasta Sauce
-fresh Hot Italian Sausage
Step 1: Take your 1/2 lbs of spaghetti put them in a tupperware dish. Cover them completely with water and set in the microwave. I always either put a paper plate or paper towels underneath the tupperware because the water does tend to boil over the top from time to time. For 1/2 lbs of pasta I usually set the microwave to 14 minutes on high.
Step 2: For some reason it seems that everytime I cook pasta in the microwave I end up with the tupperware being covered in some kind of sticky substance. I’m not really sure what it is, but I’m thinking its some weird by product of the starch being cooked by the microwave. Don’t worry though, I usually just run water over the pasta and put it either in a new tupperware dish or a microwavable bowl.
Step 3: Take one or two links of sausage from your package and take a fork o
r knife to poke holes in the casing of each sausage. This will allow a lot of the grease to come out when cooking. Throw them on the already heated George Foreman grill and allow to cook thoroughly for around 8-10 minutes. Your sausage might be a little crispy on the sides that are touching the grill, so if you have the time you can grill them for probably around 20 minutes or so without putting the top of the grill down. I really don’t mind the crispiness though and I usually just go for the quicker route.
Alternative Step 3: If you don’t have a George Foreman grill you can always get precooked sausage instead. I don’t mean hot dogs either, look at a package of any kind of sausage and if it is precooked then it will state it on the label. This just means that the sausage is already cooked and it really only needs to be heated up in order to eat. So all you have to do for step three is take out a link or two of sausage and pop it in the microwave for 3-4 minutes. I would definitely poke holes in the sausage here as well. I know a microwave cooks things from the inside out, so you don’t want any exploding sausages on your hands.
Step 4: Once the sausage is done grilling I usually take it out and cut it up into quarter inch pieces and throw it on top of the pasta. I then put about a cup of the pasta sauce and pour that on top of the spaghetti and sausage.
Step 5: Stir everything up together and put it back in the microwave for about a minute. This will allow the sauce to heat up and also pick up some flavor for the sausage.
Step 6: You can cover with some Parmesan cheese if you have any, though it’s not necessary.
Enjoy!