Gregorino & Kristina's Pizzeria

Mr. G and I have been married for 31 years, come September 1st.  In all of those years, I have done all of the cooking.  And gladly, I love to cook.  But since becoming empty nesters, and finding that we have the time to do so, we have been enjoying cooking together.  It seems like every week, we plan something new to cook together on the weekend.  We shop together for the ingredients, and then scour recipes and cookbooks, and then make a big mess in the kitchen.  Today, we made 5 home made pizzas, on the grill.  We started with our weekly trip to Sam's this morning.  Then made a pit stop at Fresh & Easy.  Finishing up at Bed, Bath & Beyond to purchase pizza crisping pans.  We bought two, and had a shoot out.  Both proved to be very good pans, and delivered a crispy, perfectly cooked crust.

Mr. G. made his home made pizza dough, and left it to rise.

I made two home made sauces.  First a pesto sauce.

And then made a cilantro pesto sauce.  Made basically the same way as a traditional pesto, but no pine nuts.  Just cilantro, garlic, parmesan cheese, salt, pulse in cuisinart, then stream in Olive Oil til right consistency is reached.  Boy, I thought I loved pesto, but this.....was......fantastic!  The flavor was amazing.
The two pizzas with the homemade dough we put onto the new crisper pans.  First dusting them with cornmeal.

Then pressing the dough into the pans.   Then they were each cooked on the grill for 4 min. before we added the toppings.

We also used something called NAAN bread to make two of the smaller pizzas, and a rustic sourdough pizza crust for one of the pizzas.  Five pizzas in all.  On the NAAN bread, we did bbq chicken. 

Wow...were these ever good!!!   There were pizzas coming in, and flying back out to the grill for a good 45 minutes.  Each pizza taking about 10 minutes to cook.

The pizza tasters were busy trying each different type that came in off the grill.  They give it thumbs up!!

Every single one was delicous.  BBQ Chicken, Pesto with chicken, cremini mushrooms, bell peppers, veggie on  rustic sourdough, but the best...the most flavorful, the one that most all of us called the number 1, was the cilantro pizza, on the home made dough, with crumbled goat cheese, roasted red peppers, garlic, onion, and mushrooms.  Wow!  SO good!!  I don't even think I got a picture of that one.  Trust me though, it was good!!!  What fun we had.
I leave you with a couple shots of the sunflowers in my kitchen.

I hope you will try making home made pizza in your own kitchen.
Bon Appetit!