TWO POSTS ONE DAY!
My creative juices must be on heavy flow today...
French Bread Pizzas from Costco are always disappointing, unless you're really fucked up and hungry and its 2am with no one to drive to J-BO. You pull em out of the freezer, have to re-arrange all the pepperoni's that have fallen off in transit, you microwave them and the outsides are dried out and over cooked, and the middle is deceivingly cold after burning the roof of your mouth on the cheese....I took a line from Wayne Tucker, and decided: "I can do better."
What you need:
2x french breads from the grocery store
1 pack of pepperoni (optional)
1 pack of Farmer John pork sausage (optional)
1/2 cup diced onions (optional)
1 pack of shredded mixed Italian cheese
1 jar of pizza sauce (I used Classico)
Italian seasoning (optional)
Red pepper flakes (optional)
Reggiano cheese (optional)
350˚ pre-heated oven
What to do:
Cut and brown the sausage in a pan, and let dry on a paper towel. Split the loaves in half the long way and lay open side up. Shake up the jar, and sauce the bread to the edges, sprinkle the cheese giving a nice covering to just barely tell there is red below. I added the pepperoni first, sausage second then sprinkled the
diced onions. I added a very light shake of shredded reggiano cheese over the top, sprinkled some red pepper flakes and Italian seasoning, then went into the oven straight onto the rack. A pan can be used if you desire a less crusty crust.
Please note that if you only want to do smaller portions, a done bread will most certainly hold in the fridge, and possibly freeze if you seal it right.
Before:
After:
A generous portion would be one third of a half, so one loaf serves about 6, serve with beer.
Cheers!
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