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Grilled bacon & mashed potato pizza

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Makes 1 pizza Servings
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Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoon garlic oil (page 43)
  • 1 tablespoon ball pizza dough
  • 5 1/2 cup cooked mashed potatoes
  • 1 cup large clove garlic, minced
  • 2 ounce “ready bacon,” diced and cooked until crispy
  • 1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
Garlic oil
  • 2 tablespoon garlic oil (page 43)
  • 1 tablespoon ball pizza dough
  • 5 1/2 cup cooked mashed potatoes
  • 1 cup large clove garlic, minced
  • 2 ounce “ready bacon,” diced and cooked until crispy
  • 1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
  • 1 head garlic, cloves peeled
  • 1 cup olive oil

Preparation

Baking Directions:

An amazingly stupid-sounding but fantastic combo.

And I figured since we were on the topic of bacon .

works well with a store-bought crust (see BTW if you do).

Lightly oil a baking sheet and spread the dough until it’s about  1/4- to 1/3-inch thick.

It doesn’t need to be a perfect circle (in fact, it rarely is).

Warm the potatoes in a small pot on the stove.

Heat the grill to medium.

Follow the directions below for grilling pizza, and when you get to step 6, brush the top with the garlic oil, then spread with the mashed potatoes and bacon, and sprinkle with the cheese.

Close the grill lid and let cook until the cheese melts, about 3 or 4 more minutes.

Remove, slice, and eat — but that was obvious, right?

BTW For a store-bought ready crust, brush the top with garlic oil, then add the potatoes, bacon, and cheese and bake in a 425º F oven for about 12 minutes.

Pizza: I love using the raw store-bought pizza dough you can get these days.

But how the pizza people can take it and make it round is beyond me.

I mean, it should be easy because it starts out as a round ball.

But then .

something just happens when I get my hands on it.

Look at the the picture — do you see anything round here?

I don’t.

And now that I think about it, why the hell are pizza boxes square and the pizzas round?

What’s up with that?

It’s like they had me in mind.”

Pizza on a grill is a glorious thing.

Making the dough is not — or at least for me it isn’t.

So I have no intention on giving you a recipe for pizza dough.

I buy raw dough already made from a store or get it from a pizza place.

The smaller pizza restaurants are usually happy to sell you dough for you to deal with.

The key to cooking a pizza using raw dough is simple: 1. Remove the dough from the fridge about 30 minutes before using.

2.

Spread some flour on a work surface in an area larger than your pizza will be.

3.

Gently stretch out the dough into a circle until it’s about  1/4-inch thick — I say circle, but more often than not mine end up in some weird and bizarrely unrecognizable shape.

4.

Brush the top lightly with oil and put it oil side down on a medium-hot grill.

5.

Once the bottom has browned with those great grill marks, oil the top and flip it over.

6.

Turn the grill down (or move the pizza to a less hot part of the grill), brush the now browned top with oil once again, and put on whatever topping you plan to use.

Close the lid.

7.

Now just wait for the magic — you’re probably only 5 to 7 minutes from being done.

Supplemental garlic oil recipe: Makes 1 cup.

Keeps in the fridge about a week and is so, so good on so, so many things.

Put the garlic cloves and oil in a small pot — bring to a simmer.

Reduce the heat to low and cook until the garlic becomes light golden brown, about 15 minutes, but don’t let it burn.

Let cool, strain the cloves from the oil, and put the oil into a squeeze bottle.

Store in the fridge.

“The grilling world is filled with ridiculous bravado, as in, “My stuff is better than your stuff.”

As in, “That ain’t no sauce — this is a sauce.”

As in, “There seem to be more grilling and BBQ-ing competitions than with pretty much any other kind of cooking.

And it’s all about the trophies and bragging rights.”

Why must it be like this?

Why is everything a secret?

Why can’t you share your Uncle Billy-Bob’s recipe for Tuscaloosa Chicken?

Why can’t we all just get along?

Why, why?”

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