Posted in Simple and Frugal Living
If you have kids, and most of you have kids, grandkids, or both hanging around, you know about the pizza syndrome. Want to satisfy any child (and most adults)? Give them pizza. A while back I posted the cost benefits of making homemade pizza, from a variety of different methods, and hands down it is FAR more frugal than buying pre-made/pre-cooked pizza. But there is more I'd like to share with you on the subject. Specialty pizza can be a big pull for kids (of all ages) to want to eat at a chain or a local pizza joint. However, those of us on the path to frugality, must fight back, and continue working on pizza clones in our kitchens!
My children love Pizza Hut's stuffed crust pizza. Just look at it!
All that extra mozzerella cheese oozing out of the crust. Heavenly crust, I say. To counter the call for this delicious speciatly pizza at its specialty price of $15/per pie, I designed the homemade stuffed crust.
It's fairly simple. When you roll out your crust, roll 1" larger than the size you want, all the way around. If you are using a pizza pan for your size gauge, simply roll th ecrust 1" larger than the pan. Using cheese sticks (you know the kind they call string cheese), place one at the edge of the crust and begin to roll it in. Turn crust (if possible) and place another cheese stick next to it, and roll the dough round it. You should roll the dough, just enough to cover the cheese completely, and seam into the main crust. Continue to go around the perimeter of the pie. Depending on the size of the pie, you may opt to split the cheese sticks in half and roll them in.
Eating this pizza out is expensive. Making it in, is not. Have fun, and let the kids help, or surprise them with your own specialty pizza!
These are my thoughts.
Leslie Valeska
~Contributing Writer~
