Grilled Mediterranean Pizza Recipe

CAUTION:  This recipe tastes like an oven-baked pizza, which may endanger your local favorite pizzeria.  Distribute recipe with care.

Basic Pizza Dough Recipe

1 package of dry yeast
1 1/3 hot water (110 degrees)
(The recipe can be made with refrigerator dough
if you need to cut corners and save time.)

Add:

1 Tbs kosher salt
1 Tbs sugar
2 Tbs Olive Oil
3 ¾ c  all-purpose flour
(may need to add more before grilling to both sides of rolled out dough)

Toppings

Olive oil and chopped 4-7 finely chopped garlic cloves in place of traditional sauce
Medium pre-cooked shrimp detailed and seasoned with Bay seasoning, salt, pepper and lemon
½ c fresh basil
½ c toasted pine nuts
4oz Feta crumbled cheese
4oz Grated parmesan cheese
½ a lemon sliced and ready to squeeze over top of pizza just before serving

Mix yeast and water and let stand until yeast foams. Kneed for 12 minutes or until elastic.  Place dough in bowl lightly covered with olive oil and coat dough with a bit. Cover with towel and let rise in a warm place (at least 80 degrees.)   Allow to rise until doubled in size 1 ½- 2 hours. Roll out into circle or square and flour each side until stable and ready for grill.

Heat grill to 500 degrees, turn off one side of gas grill and turn down flames to medium on the one operating side.  Place dough directly on hot side until browned then flip and move to side turned off.  Put olive oil garlic and all toppings on and shut lid so the dough bakes.  If the dough browns before the inside is fully baked, put on a baking sheet and continue to bake on the side turned off.  (This Houdini maneuver prevents your dough from burning before it is cooked all the way through.)

Just before serving pizza squeeze with fresh lemon and enjoy the smells and salty ocean flavor of this non-traditional pizza.

Quick dessert with grandiose style
This is my favorite quick recipe for dessert when time is a factor and company is coming for dinner.  It requires just a little prep and the look on their faces when they receive this tasty treat with coffee for dessert is almost as good as the dessert.  (Just a little note:  these taste better when they have sat in the freezer over night and the cookies start to soften.)

Jumbo square Nestle cookies

Favorite ice cream
(Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia is mine and Schwan’s
Peanut Butter Chocolate is my husband’s favorite.)

Mini-chocolate morsels

Bake cookies according to directions and put slightly melted ice cream onto cookies.  Roll completed cookie in mini-chips and wrap in wax paper for freezer.