Mini Pizzas

I don't know how it happened, but somehow in my later life, I became one lucky chick

You can see I'm here in our backyard, and I'm just enjoying this beautiful sunny day

And you know, sometimes you don't want your meals to be this huge production

You want to just have real casual food. So today is all about quick mini meals

Now, I'm going to start by making some mini pizzas, and I've got my pot heating here

I'm going to put a little oil in there, and I'm going to saute quickly some bell peppers

and some mushrooms. You can see I had my pot hot. And I think for this pizza, I want to make like a Mexican pizza

Instead of using a pizza sauce, I'm using a jarred salsa. and I'm going to be using one of the store-bought pizza crust

These are wonderful. Now, I'm going to take a large biscuit cutter

and you could put anything in here that you wanted to. You could use zucchini

You could use onions. What I've chosen today, though, is the mushrooms and the bell pepper

And do you all know what I'm using as a table today? Michael has had this thing around the house or around in the yard for years It a trough that holds water for horses

Michael and his daughter Michelle and Anthony are just huge horse lovers

They love to ride horses. All right, now I've got our pizza cut out for our crust and now I'm going to take just

a jarred salsa, and you can use any one that happens to be your favorite. And I'm just

going to put a little bit of that on each one, just like that. The children in my family

love Mexican. Kari and Michelle could eat it four times a week easily. I think our vegetables

are sautéed enough. I don't want to over sauté them. I don't want them to be like mushy

Okay, now I'm going to put a little salt and pepper in the veggies and toss those around

And then I'm going to put these on each of our pizzas

This is also fun to do after everybody gets to your house

Everybody can make their own pizza and put anything you want. You can have a variety of everything

Some people love black olives on their pizza All right now I going to put these in the oven and I going to bake them for a few minutes and then I gonna come back and I gonna cheese them But right now look at the boat Hey I can tell from this far who that is but

I know I know them. Now I'm gonna pull out our pizzas. Now you can do this any

way you want to. Oops. But I think that I'm gonna top these with cheese

Oh, and you can see they're steaming because it's a little nippy outside

All right, and I've got some cooked ham here, and you could use bacon or beef or chicken

anything you wanted to. And I'm going to run these back in the oven and just let that ham and cheese melt

Now, our cheese is melted. Those are piping hot. Now, I'm going to take one of these out for you and put right there

Now, I think I'm going to finish this off almost like a taco since I've used the salsa as a base

And I'm going to put some lettuce on it and sour cream

And ooh I wish I had some green onions some green onion tops But look how good that is and I think you can have too much cheese All right I can hardly wait to dig in but before I do that I got to finish getting everything in our chili pot

Now I'm adding the red kidney beans, and I'm adding a can of Mexican-style tomatoes

So they've got some seasoning in them, too. So we're just going to put that in there and let this simmer

I'm going to give it a quick stir. Oh, doesn't that look good? And I've got a full pot. Oh

great time of day. That looks so good. I think I'm going to sit that plate on top of it so it

can get hot quick. Oh, and now I'm ready to taste. You know, I'm weird about something

I love ripe olives to just stand up here and eat. In fact, I've been munching on them while I was

piddling around back here. But I don't like them on my pizza

So I'm gonna forego that. But I do love sour cream. Look how delicious

that looks. And the pizza crust is so crispy it's gonna be like eating

a fat crouton. Mmm. This is perfectly yummy