Little Italy in Minneapolis

Last night we turned the apartment into our own Little Italy and became pizzaiolo. I have been on a “make it your own” binge lately with cooking, so on our agenda was pizza making. I have a very basic taste when it comes to pizza, more of a three cheese style than anything eccentric. We decided to make two pizzas, best of both worlds.

On mine (ate it too quickly for there to be pictures) I chose to venture out and make it Hawaiian style. I picked to do a thin crust dough as well. I pan fried sliced pieces of Canadian bacon, I only placed three pieces on the whole pizza, you can add as many as you see fit, then I added chunks of sliced pineapple, making sure every piece had at least two pineapples, my love for the fruit is outrageous. I finished the pizza was putting a little mixture of three different cheeses, shredded Gouda, shredded Parmesan and large chopped pieces of fresh Mozzarella.

For his, (again ate too quickly to take pictures) there was an assortment of ingredients. Better known as the “kitchen sink” of pizzas. It was a thick crust pizza dough which included toppings of pepperoni, Canadian bacon, shitake mushrooms (which were sautéed in a pan with chopped onion), three cheeses and sliced jalapeños'. 

Both pizzas were big hits, however I think the Hawaiian beat the Kitchen Sink by a tad on the pizza scale.

I recommend this as a fun date idea, if you want to venture out in cooking skills, or if you are looking for something to do on a week night or weekend!

Bon Appetite my fellow students