Grilled Pizza

I was looking for something fun to make for lunch online one morning. I came across a lady who made pizza on the grill. I instantly wanted to try this out! So after work I ran out to Jones farm and picked up some ingredients. I wanted to make my own sauce because I knew my mom didn’t have any and I didn’t want to go to wal-mart, since it was only me eating I didn’t want to make too much. I knew I had an onion, garlic, and fresh basil/pesto that my mom and I had made, so I only needed a tomato for the sauce and a green pepper for my toppings.I had bought some shredded cheese from when I made my eggplant(post coming soon), so I already had that as well.

I knew I didn’t want to make the crust because I wanted to eat it for lunch and didn’t have make it, then wait an hour before I could use it. But, my sister lives in St. Louis so I go up often, and there is a Trader Joe’s there and they have frozen pizza crust in a bag for $1.99, that’s cheap! I get the wheat crust and it is so easy! You just get it out and let it sit for 20 minutes at room temperature and then it is ready to go!

When I got home I went and got the crust out of the freezer so that could start to de thaw as I started on my sauce. I also went and started the grill (for the first time by myself btw) because when I read how the other lady did it, she said it worked the best when the grill was at its max heat. To make my sauce I started by cutting the onion. Again, since it was only for me I used ¼ of a medium onion. I put a pot on the stove and put a little olive oil in the bottom and started browning my onion. I got one clove of garlic and used my garlic press to get the garlic in small pieces straight into the pan with the onions that are still browning. Then I peeled the tomato and used my pampered chef food chopper to cut it into small pieces. Then turned the stove up to medium heat and added the tomato and pesto that was already chopped and kept in my fridge, I didn’t really measure my pesto, I added probably close to one tablespoon though, maybe a little more. Then I let it simmer on medium heat for about 15 minutes.

While the sauce was simmering I rolled out the dough. I knew I was going to use my vegetable grilling basket to make the pizza, but didn’t want to put it on the heat directly because it would burn the bottom too quick. So I put a cookie sheet on grill upside down that way I could just set the basket on that instead of straight on the grill. I set the cookie sheet in the grill that was 550 degrees by this time. I came back inside and finished rolling out my dough, greased the basket, stretch the dough out on the basket, spooned the sauce onto the dough, it was a little chunky but I didn’t mind I had to spoon it though so that the extra juice from the tomato didn’t make the dough soggy. Lastly, I added the shredded cheese and green pepper to the top, then I put the pizza on the grill! I checked it after 5 minutes and the cheese was melted but I wanted the crust a little harder so I wanted 2 more minutes and it was finished! …in 7 minutes!!

Hope all this makes sense! It is one of my longer ones since I kind of made it up by myself! Hope I didn’t lose you! Here are some pictures of how it turned out! Enjoy!!

Hope you all have a great day!

Erin

Weekly line-up

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day and enjoyed their long weekend, I know I did! I thought since I did vegetables all summer, I would start by posting all of those dishes. I have been thinking about how I wanted to lay this blog out to fit everything in and making sure it is organized, since it is for a grade ;) I have decided to dedicate two weeks to each food group with at least two recipes a week and more in some categories. Here is the categories I have decided to cover(they are not listed in any certain order):

Vegetables
Chicken
Pork
Lamb
Beef
Eggs
Dessert
then the last two weeks I will do a wrap-up, talk about the cookbook, condiments, and changes that have been made at the farm since I started this blog!

I hope you all enjoy all the different types of recipes and try something new out of this because I know I will be!

Have a good day! First recipe post coming soon!
Erin

What the farm looks like!

I thought that this first week I should show you more about the farm. I have been out there almost once a week since the begining of summer to see what new vegetables they have and to see all the new updates. It seeems like everytime I went there were new improvements made over the summer!

Here are a few a lot of pictures I have taken when I have visited!

The front of the building

The front of the building from the side

A note on their freezer

The Milk Case

Condiment Shelves

Front display case/ cashier

Bonfire!

Free range chickens :)

The pond in the back

Lamb

Part of the garden

Another free range chicken

The sign located at the entrance

I know that was a lot of pictures, but I just could not choose! I am sure I will have a lot more to come throughout this blog!

Have a great day!

What is this blog about anyway?

Hi, my name is Erin and I am a senior at Southeast Missouri State University. For one of my classes my friend Sara and I are making a food blog and cookbook. When we told our teacher, who I will refer to as Dreshfield throughout this blog, that we would like to make this blog we did not really know what we were getting ourselves into. We did not know which way to go with this blog and were thinking of a million ideas. We knew we wanted to make recipes and write posts about them, and eventually make a cookbook through the University press. Dreshfield wanted us to focus on local markets and stores to get the majority of our products. We have a new market in our town called Jones Heritage Farm, they "are a family-owned farm using old fashioned farming methods to produce the tastiest and healthiest food you can buy. Their old fashioned methods eschew modern industrial agricultural practices such as animal confinement, the feeding of animal byproducts and the use of antibiotics and growth hormones because they are more concerned about healthy, happy animals and great tasting food than maximizing production. All of their animals are raised outdoors and fed an all natural diet of grass and grain. The end result is better tasting food that is better for you and for the environment." What better place than this to get all of our goods. They have graciously allowed us to do this blog and write about their products(which are great!!). They have a variety of meats, vegetables, dairy products, and specialty condiments. You can also go out and eat breakfast, lunch or dinner there and try our their delicious food!

Their location is:
5739 State Highway W
Jackson, MO 63755

Their hours of operation are:
Monday- Thursday 10am-6pm
Fridays 10am-9pm
Saturdays from 7am-9pm

Their dining hours are:
Breakfast: Saturday 7am-noon
Lunch: Monday-Friday 11am-2pm
Dinner: Friday and Saturday 4-9pm

I am going to do more of the posting on the blog, and Sara is going to be taking all the recipes we make and put them into a cookbook that will eventually be printed and sold out at the farm! We are going to do a variety of recipes from each category of meat and vegetables, and there will also a few fun post along the way with pictures of the farm and their food from when I went out and enjoyed it myself! Please follow us on this journey of cooking and blogging as seniors in college! Wish us luck!