Cranberry Turkey Pizza

Remember that cranberry sauce you made for Thanksgiving ages ago and didn't eat all of it?  Oh, you ate it all?  Well we had some and I thought it would make a delicious barbecue sauce.  My recipes almost always have destiny.  This particular recipe is destined for a turkey and cheese pizza.  Yep I was reinventing Thanksgiving dinner as a pizza.  Anyway, you don't have to try my idea, but if you do, I think you'll like this new spin on a Thanksgiving pizza.  

Pizza is our Friday tradition, and this was a great addition to our traditional pepperoni. 

Cranberry barbecue sauce, the secret sauce of the delicous cranberry turkey pizza.

Cranberry Barbecue Sauce Ingredients:

1 cup Cranberry Sauce
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Orange Juice
1 tablespoon Spicy Brown Mustard
1 tablespoon Worcesthershire Sauce

Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

Pour sauce into small saucepan and boil over medium heat and reduce heat to low
and simmer until thickened about 10 minutes.

Remove sauce from sauce pan and pour into lidded container, I used a pint sized Mason Jar.

Refrigerate remaining unused sauce.

Cranberry Turkey Pizza Ingredients:

Cranberry Barbecue Sauce
4 Slices Turkey Breast (sliced into strips)
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese (grated)
Pizza Dough

Preheat oven to 500 Farhenheit for atleast a half hour after the oven has reached temperature.

Roll out pizza dough to 12 inch wide thin circle.  Spread a thin layer of sauce.

Add all the cheese, then the turkey and finally drizzle some more sauce on the pizza.

Bake pizza on the bottom of the oven for 5-8 minutes, until golden brown around the edges
and underneath.  Rest for three minutes before slicing, this allows the cheese to cool
enough to cut and become slightly solid.

Enjoy!

Cranberry Turkey Pizza

Cranberry Barbecue Sauce Ingredients:

1 cup Cranberry Sauce
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Orange Juice
1 tablespoon Spicy Brown Mustard
1 tablespoon Worcesthershire Sauce

Process:

Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

Pour sauce into small saucepan and boil over medium heat and reduce heat to low and simmer until thickened about 10 minutes.

Remove sauce from sauce pana and pour into lidded container, I used a pint sized Mason Jar.

Refrigerate remaining unused sauce.

Cranberry Turkey Pizza Ingredients:

Cranberry Barbecue Sauce
4 Slices Turkey Breast (sliced into strips)
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese (grated)
Pizza Dough

Process:

Preheat oven to 500 Farhenheit for atleast a half hour after the oven has reached temperature.

Roll out pizza dough to 12 inch wide thin circle.  Spread a thin layer of sauce.

Add all the cheese, then the turkey and finally drizzle some more sauce on the pizza.

Bake pizza on the bottom of the oven for 5-8 minutes, until golden brown around the edges and underneath.  Rest for three minutes before slicing, this allows the cheese to cool enough to cut and become slightly solid.

Enjoy!

Pan de Jamon

My husband's co-worker Fernando is Chinese and grew up in Venezuela (I think that is so cool). Fernando requested Pan de Jamon, a traditional Venezuelan Christmas bread.  It is similar to an Italian Stromboli but with ham instead.  This was a request worth trying since, 1. I am not from Venezuela, 2. I love trying anything different, and 3. I enjoy making food when someone else decides what food I should make.  You now know my secret.   I am completely open to suggestions about what I cook.  My favorite way of determining the recipe I will make, is thinking about a food that someone I know would choose.  

Pan de Jamon when translated to English means Ham Bread.  Gustavo Ramella, owner of a bakery in Caracas created this bread in December 1905.  The original Pan de Jamon was only filled with ham.  In 1920, other bakeries began adding almonds, olives, nuts and capers. 

When researching this bread, every photograph I saw showed it having ham, bacon, roasted red peppers, Spanish pimento filled olives, and raisins rolled in dough.

 In your best Spanish accent (Think Spanish Buzz from Toy Story 3) say Pan de Jamon making
sure you pronounce the J like an H.  Fun to say huh, especially with an accent.

Preheat oven to 375 Fahrenheit

 Ingredients for this recipe are: 1 ball of pizza dough that has risen once (I used homemade, recipe
 found here), 1/4 cup raisins, 2 roasted red peppers, 1/2 cup Spanish pimento filled olives, 1 lb. sliced ham, and 1/4 lb. bacon (cooked, but still soft).

 Roll pizza dough on floured board or parchment as I have done.  Make a large rectangle,
1/4 inch thick.

 Place ham in a row, then cooked bacon, olives, roasted red bell peppers, repeat and spread
roasted red bell peppers and raisins over the whole smorgasbord.  Try to leave the far edge
 uncovered so you can seal the loaf together.  I love the colors and textures of this, don't you?

 Roll, similar to rolling cinnamon rolls.

 If you have made your loaf on parchment paper, move loaf and paper to cookie sheet, otherwise
you need to spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray. Brush egg wash on loaf (eggwash= 1egg
yolk, 1 tablespoon cold water).

Bake in oven for 30-45 minutes.

 This yummy bread is ready to be cut.

 I love the layers, it looks very festive.

Enjoy!

Something Good Bread

If, well really I should say when, when you make pizza tarts and you want to use that second half of the dough you should follow my family's tradition and make Something Good Bread for breakfast the next morning.  This bread came about as just an idea for using leftover pizza dough and making a sweet bread.  My children chose the name for this recipe, in case you were wondering.

Yummy, Something Good Bread.

 Ingredients for this recipe are: 1/2 pizza dough (recipe found here), 1 stick of butter, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1 cup turbinado sugar (brown sugar can be substituted).

 Place cinnamon and sugar in small bowl.

 Stir with fork.

Butter a bundt pan.  Try saying that three times fast.

 Create quarter size dough balls.   Roll in cinnamon and sugar...

 ...and place in buttered bundt pan.  I love the name bundt pan.   I always think of a great scene in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," you should watch it just for the bundt pan scene.  Allow to rest in a warm place until doubled in size.

Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit

 Cut butter into 1/4 in slices and melt in a small sauce pan.

 Add turbinado or brown sugar, cook over a medium low flame.

 It will begin to look like this, bubbling away.  Stir with a wooden spoon.

 When it looks like this, a beautiful caramel color and smell, you are done.  Not quite
soft ball stage (235-245 Fahrenheit).

 Pour sauce over dough balls,  place pan on middle rack in oven and bake for 20-30 minutes.

 Remove pan when golden brown on top, look at that shiny beautiful bread.

Place bundt pan on large plate and flip over to remove the Something Good Bread for eating.  It was really Something Good...Bread.

Enjoy!

Pizza Tarts

A couple years ago, I made some pizza dough, and having some left over, decided to make up a new meal for my picky eaters, I mean my children.  My children dubbed them pizza tarts.  The recipe for the dough isn't the same as my previous post about pizza, just so you know.  Also my children only like pepperoni and cheese, but you may add your own flare and change the stuff inside these pocket pizzas. In fact, if you do decide to try other inside goodness please share I would love to hear about what you are eating.

Pizza tarts, a new pizza sensation.

Ingredients for the pizza dough recipe are: 2 3/4 cup warm water (warm in microwave for 30 

seconds), 1 1/2 tablespoons active dry yeast, 1 1/2 tablespoons coarse salt (or Kosher salt), 

1 tablespoon turbinado sugar (or white sugar), 1/4 cup olive oil, and 7 cups all purpose flour.

 Pour water, yeast, sugar, salt, and olive oil into mixing bowl.  Let rest for 10 minutes.

 Look how happy and foamy it got?

 Add flour, mix on stir setting with dough hook until combined.  Increase speed to 3 and mix
 for 10 minutes.

 

Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil large 6 quart lidded container, put dough in oil and rub oil 

all over the dough.  Let rest in warm place until doubled.

Preheat oven to 450 Fahrenheit

 Ingredients for pizza tarts recipe: 1/2 of dough(refrigerate the other half for up to two weeks), a bag of Boars Head Turkey Pepperoni (I like the flavor the best, but you may use whatever pepperoni you want), and shredded mozzarella.

Roll dough out with a little dusting of flour (the dough needs to be a little wet, not dry) into a big
1/8 inch thick rectangle.  I rolled mine out on parchment paper on my kitchen table since
 my counter space is limited (New York apartment spaces are small).

 With my trusty large rolling pin I made straight cuts using a pizza cutter.  I cut into fourths
in both directions.  I created squares about 3 1/2 inches. 

 Look at those pretty squares?  Place three pepperoni on each one.

 Sprinkle 1 tablespoon shredded mozzarella on each stack.  I have also cut cheese sticks into
1 inch lengths when my shredded cheese was all gone.

  Fold in half, think triangle shape.  Press edges together.  If you leave the dough a little wet,
then the dough will easily stick to itself and seal properly. 

 Place pizza tarts on a cookie sheet brushed with olive oil.

 Brush pizza tarts with olive oil and sprinkle with more mozzarella cheese.
Poke tarts with knife once.

Bake Pizza Tarts in oven for 15 minutes.  Remove from oven and pan. Serve with marinara sauce,
we ate ours with homemade sauce (recipe found here).

Enjoy!