I am proud of my Italian heritage. In someways I am very Italian in others, not so much. I love pasta. I talk with my hands. I have an overwhelming desire to feed and mother everyone I come across.
On the other hand, I don't drink coffee of any kind (latte, espresso, cappuccino me no likey). My cousins called me the hairless Ginny and....
I am not a big fan of pizza per say. It is a little too bready for me and I never seem to get a take out pizza that has enough sauce on it for my taste. (I like a very saucy pizza!) Often I am expecting one thing and receive a version I would not have anticipated. Burned broccoli on a white pizza. Sausage that looks more like rabbit pellets than sausage. Crust burned on the bottom. These are things that will ruin my night.
This being said. I do enjoy making my own pizzas at home. I can control the ingredients and the sauce content. I like a thin crispy crust but not burnt. I also like to fool around with non traditional pizza ingredients on my pies. BBQ chicken, Chicken Satay, Ruben, BLT....
One of my favorites is BBQ Chicken Pizza. I love Sandra Lee's concept of semi homemade. Ingredients prepped for you by the store that you can then pull together to make your own dinner.
On a recent trip to Florida I stocked up on Curly's Sauceless Pulled Chicken. I am not sure why but they stopped selling it up here by me. I love to make myself little White BBQ pulled chicken sliders on King's Hawaiian Sweet rolls. But I digress. I realized I had room in my cooler for more of the sauceless pulled chickens and sent my wonderful husband to Publix to get more. HE came back with Curly's Pulled Barbecue Chicken. (I guess the universe was saying 9 packs of pulled sauceless chicken was enough!) No worries, I can use that too! One of the things I can do with it is my yummy Almost Homemade BBQ Chicken Pizza. It is a favorite in our house. A little bit pizza, a little bit bbq summer.
1/2 cup BBQ Sauce
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup shredded cheese pizza blend
1 container Curly's Pulled BBQ chicken
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Open Pizza crust and spread onto pizza stone or greased sheet pan. Bake crust for 5-7 minutes until top is firm but not golden. Remove from oven and spread BBQ sauce onto crust. Next evenly spread BBQ Chicken onto crust in thin layer. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese and then shredded pizza blend. Return to oven for another 10-15 minutes watching so cheese does not form a hard crust but remains melty and bubbly.
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