My sister-in-law just built a backyard pizza oven. Pretty cool if you ask me...I asked my husband and he said "no way". I didn't expected a "sure honey, do you want me to get started on it today?" answer anyway so I wasn't disappointed. This put me on a mission...to bake pizza outside without the luxury and ambiance of an outdoor wood burning oven. I watched an episode of
BBQ Addiction with Bobby Flay that showed him making flatbread on the BBQ, now why didn't I think of that? I still don't understand the technical difference between flatbread and pizza, but from a culinary standpoint, my flatbread pizza was excellent! I made a traditional pizza dough, hand formed 6 oz dough balls into an oval of sorts, and baked it on the grill for a few minutes on each side. Then once the flatbread pizza's were baked enough to handle, we each made our own individual pizza's with our own choice of toppings. It only took another 5 minutes on the grill for the sauce to warm and the cheeses to melt into this wonderful homemade flatbread pizza. Mine was a beautiful pizza with a white sauce made from a basic bechamel with the addition of mascarpone and parmesan cheese. Fresh spinach, artichoke hearts, zucchini, tomatoes and a combination of mozzarella, fontina, asiago, and parmesan cheeses finished off my first masterpiece. I was very happy with the first trial. How fun is that!
