Pizza, Pizza, Pizza

[BBQ Vikings]

I really love cooking and eating pizza - and there is nothing better than a pizza cooked on my Primo with a Fredstone!

A couple of months ago I was in a business meeting, and we were offered pizza. GREAT, I thought, until I learned that this was a vegetarian pizza :-(.

However, it was perhaps one of the best pizzas I have ever had (and this comes from a man who LOVES meat). The pizza had thin slices of apple, blue cheese and wallnuts. Escpecially the blue cheese and apples were great together, so I decided to copy the best parts and make it into a "real" pizza with meat (fresh serano ham and fresh basil). :-)

[Barry Friesen]

That's a beauty!

[DWCowles]

Beautiful!

[Troutman]

Nice pie!! I agree sweet apples and savory blue cheese make an awesome combo !!!

[lostclusters]

I really love cooking and eating pizza - and there is nothing better than a pizza cooked on my Primo with a Fredstone!

A couple of months ago I was in a business meeting, and we were offered pizza. GREAT, I thought, until I learned that this was a vegetarian pizza :-(.

However, it was perhaps one of the best pizzas I have ever had (and this comes from a man who LOVES meat). The pizza had thin slices of apple, blue cheese and wallnuts. Escpecially the blue cheese and apples were great together, so I decided to copy the best parts and make it into a "real" pizza with meat (fresh serano ham and fresh basil). :-)

Your sauce or canned, and home made crust or purchased?

[Attjack]

Mine is both. I start with canned whole peeled tomatoes, add sea salt, blend briefly and that's it. That makes an excellent sauce.

[BBQ Vikings]

My sauce in this instance is canned. The crust is home made (resting for 12 hours in the fridge). The recipe is from Fred the Baker (who also created the Fredstone pizza stone used above).

[Skip]

BBQ Vikings that is one fine looking pizza.

[Donw]

Beautiful looking pizza. I just pulled some homemade dough out of the freezer for dinner tomorrow night and I think we will have to try this one. It looks and sounds delicious.

[texastweeter]

Try the Hill Country, got named the best pizza in Texas. Turkey bacon, red onions, candied pecans, olive oil, mozzarella, and feta! Served at West Crust Pizza in Lubbock, TX.

[bbqoaf]

Great pictures, looks delicious!

[BBQ Vikings]

Thank you all. :-)

[tchamp5]

How hot can you make your grill&how do you do it?

[texastweeter]

same. I struggle with regular pizza. It is so hit or miss. I can NAIL Detroit style, and Chicago deep dish, but anything not cooked in a pan of some kind is either fantastic, or call Pizza Hut (ugh....)

[BBQ Vikings]

I can get my grill up to around 670 - 700 F. Typically I cook pizza at 530 F. I use the Fredstone Pizza stone - it is just perfect for pizzas. :-)

[Scott H]

Since you like the apple and blue cheese combo - try pear, goat cheese and sausage on your pizza!

[BBQ Vikings]

Great idea - I will try that for sure. :-)

[JCBBQ]

Duuuuude!!! Looks amazing. I love Pizza, I've got a Primo but what is this Fredstone you speak of?

[Pirate Scott]

Looks great!

[Willy]

Let me once again recommend Forkish's "Elements of Pizza". It's not so much for the pizza recipes per se, although the dough recipes in particular are valuable. It's more for the first half of the book where he addresses foundational information. The recipes for dough are all designed to pizzas cooked at 550°F--easily achievable in most home ovens and most gas grills and certainly any Kamado.

Also recommended is this pizza dough recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/...zza-dough.html I've found that cutting the recipe to 2/3 makes it easier on the food processor. This dough freezes nicely (as do most doughs). Just portion the dough into two equal parts (assuming a 2/3 recipe) and freeze in a ZipLoc.

[Donw]

+1 Good advice. I am amazed at how good the pizzas are coming out just using 550 in the kitchen oven. On our decks remodeling I had plans to put in a brick pizza oven but am now reconsidering it since we are happy with the oven in the kitchen.