If you live near Wegman's and love pizza

[disneysteve]

Thursday night is pizza night at our house. We buy a ready-made crust and add all the toppings and bake. Over the years, we've gone through a variety of brands of ready-made crusts, some brand name, some store brand. Most recently, we've been using Boboli brand.

Yesterday, though, my wife and I were at Wegman's to buy pizza fixings and she spotted Wegman's brand pizza dough in one of the refrigerated cases. This was a fresh dough ball that just needed to be shaped, topped and baked. We bought two, one white, one whole wheat.

I made DD's pizza the usual way with pizza sauce, cheese and veggies (green pepper, mushroom, spinach, olives). For DW and I, we had decided we wanted something a little different (prior to trying the new crust). Instead of pizza sauce, I lightly coated the crust with pesto, then topped with cheese, red and green pepper, onion, spinach, mushroom and some shredded chicken breast.

Anyway, the point of the post is that the dough was incredible. It was light and delicious. In fact, it expanded quite a bit resulting in pizza that was about an inch thick. As soon as I started eating it, I started coming up with ideas of other things we could do with those dough balls, like dinner rolls, breadsticks, sandwich rolls, etc. Best of all, it makes a bigger pizza than the Boboli and is cheaper. I'm having leftovers for lunch today and probably again tomorrow. Yum.

[Jazzmint98]

Thanks for the tip. We will have to try that. I have always been buying the pre-made crust for homemade pizza. Your pizza sounds delicious!

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Yep, bread doughs are versatile. When I make pizza (as opposed to loaf bread) I do not even measure my ingredients, so it is true that the dough will vary from pizza to pizza. But in doing that I have become very confident in the dependability and versatility of bread dough. I could flatten it and pan fry the same dough, I could do as you say and make it into rolls. I could incorporate shredded cheese into the dough, I could add garlic and spices to make seasoned rolls. I could make that same dough into a small loaf, shaped free-hand or put into a small loaf pan. I could roll and twist it into bread sticks....I would encourage experimenting with store bought dough, too.

[irmanator]

thanks

[jIM_Ohio]

wegmans rocks
it has not expanded to midwest yet, but when I go home, stopping there is a must...

[disneysteve]

To add to the story, my daughter, spoiled as she is, generally refuses to reheat leftover pizza, mine or store-bought, doesn't matter. Over the weekend, she reheated this pizza 2 different times when she needed something to eat and said it was just as good reheated as it was fresh. She and I have both agreed that it may be the best pizza we've ever had.