Buffalo Chicken Pizza

Focaccia Recipe as follows will be your crust
https://whats4dinnerbymarie.blogspot.com/2011/11/focaccia-bread.html

2 cups flour
1 T yeast
1 1/4 cup hot water from tap
1 T olive oil
1/4 t salt

Toppings:
1lb chicken, boneless, cut up into bite-sized pieces (I prefer thigh meat, it doesn't get dry)
Louisiana Hot Sauce (or use your fave!), Alfredo sauce (bottled or fresh)

Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Chopped or crushed fresh garlic
Parsley

Optional:
Blue Cheese dressing

Directions:
Start browning your chicken first thing. Once it is browned, drain fat, allow to cool a bit and drench in hot sauce. Allow to cool.

Preheat oven to 425*

While chicken is cooking, start your dough. Run tap until very hot water comes out. Measure out flour, yeast, and salt. Mix in a large mixing bowl, with a fork. Make a well in the center, pour in the 1 Tablespoon of olive oil, don't mix in. Add the 1 1/4 cup hot water, all at once the olive oil in the center of the flour. Stir with the form, slowly incorporating the flour as it falls into the water in the center of the bowl. Once all the flour is incorporated, turn dough out onto well floured surface. Knead, pulling up flour, until dough is soft and elastic, not sticky, not crumbly. This comes with practice, but it's not hard to know when it's done.

When your dough is ready, move ball of dough onto a lightly oiled pizza pan or stone. I prefer the stone. Pat or roll out dough to the pan edge. Precook dough in oven for ten minutes. Remove from oven to add toppings.

For sauce, I made a simple Alfredo sauce. You can make your own, or use bottled. Spread over dough.

Evenly distribute cooked and sauced chicken to the dough. Cover with mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle garlic over the top, topped with a sprinkle of parsley for color.

Feel free to add any other ingredients that strike your fancy. Adjust cooking time accordingly.

Bake in oven, middle rack for 15 minutes, or until cheese is nicely browned to center of pizza. Slice and enjoy!

 Sauce and chicken on the dough. Next time, I'll shred the chicken smaller. 

 Mozzarella over the top. 

 Chopped garlic. I used three huge cloves. We do like garlic! :)

 Parsley on top for some added color. 

Into the oven for 15 minutes. Watch it closely after 10, to make sure you don't overcook. 

Can you believe there is no final product photo? Well, I took it out, cut it up, called everyone for dinner and the next thing I knew, it was GONE! Sorry folks. I'll add one next time. But believe me, it was scrumptious!

Bacon Chicken Alfredo

Bacon Chicken Alfredo

A meal made with whatever jumped out at me this evening! And it turned out QUITE delicious!!

Gather your ingredients, bacon, chicken, pasta, Alfredo sauce. I also added some leftover broccoli and some sliced scallions. 

Cut up your bacon and add to large frying pan. 

Cook until well done and starting to get crispy.

There, that's ready. If your chicken is cut up, go ahead. Otherwise, turn off the heat for a few minutes. Scoop out that golden nectar of bacon fat for another use and store in the refrigerator. 

Cut your chicken into bite-sized pieces. 

Add raw chicken to cooked bacon and continue frying until chicken is fully cooked.

I added some sliced scallions. Feel free to add other veggies, perhaps bell peppers and mushrooms.

I also prepared some cooked leftover broccoli. I did not add it with the onions because it was already cooked. I did not want to overcook it, just warm it up. So, I sliced it up a bit and had it at the ready. 

This is a quickie meal, so I used jarred sauce. If you have time, make your own, if you'd like. 

Once the sauce was heated through, I added the cooked broccoli and folded it gently into the sauce. 

Served here over linguine. Use what you like. :) It was delicious!!