15 Mar BBQ chicken pizza {74/365}

Husband turned me onto this BBQ chicken pizza a few months back.  The first one was to die for.  Loved it.  Then we ordered again, and it was pretty saucy and ick, but still relatively good (even if you did sorta have to search for the actual CHICKEN, cheapskate pizza place).

And then he told me how much one pizza cost.

And I almost fainted.  heh.

So I thought to myself, I can make that (‘course I did, I have issues) and tonight I gave it a shot.

Now, I don’t know the first thing about pizza dough and I wasn’t willing to jump in with both feet here, so I bought a bag of dough from the local grocery and figured I was fine.

OMG!!!  Somebody should’ve warned me how HARD this stuff is to work with!!!

No lie, it took me about a half hour to get that ball of dough onto the pan, resembling a bit of a pizza shape.  A strange pizza shape, but whatever.  I totally should’ve taken a shot of that.  Or a shot of myself wrestling with the damn thing.

I was sweating.  Honestly.  yeeesh.

Anyways …

No recipe, but here’s what I did.

ready to go in the oven

I smeared on some BBQ sauce – my beloved Diana’s Chicken & Rib and her Smoked one too.  I kept it pretty light because you can always dip it in some sauce if you haven’t put enough, but you can’t fix having too much on there.  And I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, so yeah.  Then some mozzarella.  Then the bbq chicken that I’d already made the husband cook earlier today and some red onion slices (I don’t like to actually eat the onion, but I love the taste and without it on this, it’s just, well, not as good).  I drizzled a bit more bbq sauce over that (the sauce that was bbq’d with the chicken – yummy!) and threw on the mushrooms and tomatoes (neither of which you need but I wanted them on there) and then some more cheese, just because.

The dough said 425 for around 20 mins so that’s what I did.  And it was pretty damn close.  I think I went 25 mins.  But my dough was pretty thick because, again, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

And then this …

Followed by this …

(honestly, he does take that sweater off sometimes)
(oh! and I honest to god did NOT make him pose … he’s a little bit … happy)

followed by this …

I think he liked it! *grin*

All said and done (sweating and stressing aside) this was pretty easy!  And nobody was more shocked than I that this turned out so flippin’ delicious.  Seriously.  It kicked ass.  It kicked the cheapskate pizza place’s ass.  It kicked my husband’s ass because he pretty much went into some strange trance-like state eating it.  Incoherent.  It was kinda funny.

I’m sure there’s some gourmet version (or twenty) out there.  Throw some fancy-ass cheese on it or something.

I may not know what the hell I’m doing, but this was delicious :)

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