Pizza with the Works

Pizza with the works, or the Canadianism "all-dressed" usually means mushrooms, pepperoni and bell  pepper but this one takes it up a notch! Make it your cheat meal this week!

Ingredients:

Pizza dough for 1 medium pizza

1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella 

More mozzarella cut in sticks or cheese sticks for the crust

1/3 lb bacon, cooked and chopped

Reserved bacon drippings 

4-5 tbsps pizza sauce

Sliced mushrooms, bell peppers and red onion

Pepperoni

Fresh pineapple tidbits 

I used a frozen pizza dough ball for this one and here's a handy tip. Usually I defrost the dough overnight rolled in vegetable oil in a ziplock bag then during the day I leave it out on the counter to come to room temperature. I forgot to leave it out of the fridge but was able to speed up the process by putting the bag of dough in the microwave with a bowl of hot water. Don't turn on the microwave! The heat of the water will bring the dough to a nice workable temp. in about an hour.

Once you have the dough stretched to fit your pan, pull the edges over sticks of cheese and seal well. This is just an option but more cheese is always the better choice😋

Next spread the sauce over the crust. I like a scant amount of sauce but feel free to increase the sauce if you like.

Then pile on the shredded mozzarella, mushrooms, bell peppers, onion, bacon, pepperoni and pineapple (don't knock it 'til you've tried it!!)

Give everything a good drizzle of reserved bacon drippings. 

And onto a preheated pizza stone in a 510°F oven (or convection oven) for 10-12 minutes.

Beauty!

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