Pizza | mamieggroll

My friend Nat and Melissa makes awesome homemade pizza so I was inspired to make my own “semi” home made version. I say “semi” home-made because I didn’t make the dough or crust from scratch.

We are huge fans of the Market Basket frozen supreme pizza and that is a staple in our household. Recently the price seems to keep going up. Before it was 3/$10.00 and now its a big deal if its 3/$11.00. I guess you can say everything is going up but I believe Market Basket’s prices are still competitive.

I bought a premade pizza crust that was 2.99 and had a 2.00 coupon and ended up paying only 1.00 at Market Basket. I also bough the premade garlic Naan indian bread for an additional crust. Originally, I wanted to grill the pizza but the Mo went golfing and it was too dark out for me to experiment the grilled pizza since it was beyond 8 o clock and I had a few glasses of wine in me.

Pizza 1
Store bought crust
Hunts Spaghetti Sauce
Red Onion
Jalapeno
Spicy Sausage, cooked and slice
Store bought sliced pepperoni
Shredded Mozzarella cheese
Sliced Yellow and Orange Bell Peppers

Pizza 2 and 3
Naan Garlic bread

Hunts Spaghetti Sauce
Grilled chicken
canned corn kernels, drained
Grape Tomatos
Feta Cheese (I got the flavored tomato and basil)
Fresh minced garlic
Fresh Mozzarella, sliced

The difference between pizza 2 and 3 is that 3 has jalapenos

** I add a packet of splenda in the tomato sauce for an extra sweetness similiar to Espresso’s Pizza sauce in Lowell. That is our favorite pizza shop in the area as they are known for their special sauce.

You really don’t have to get the fresh mozzarella or the fresh feta cheese. I just really like the creaminess of the fresh mozzarella. The feta cheese adds a bit of texture and saltiness to the pizza that adds a nice contrasts with the sweet corn.

Feta cheese, Shredded Mozzarella and Fresh Mozzarella

Pizza 1
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Place premade crust on pizza pan and generally pour sauce to cover crust. Try to get as close to the edge as possible.

Sprinkle mozzarella cheese and add preferred toppings generously.

After 12 minutes, remove pizza from oven and let it cool for 2 minutes. Slice pizza and serve with crushed red peppers and fresh parm.

Pizza 2 & 3
Place both naan breads on a pizza dish. The naan bread is available in a few different varieties including plain, garlic and wheat.

Add Sauce and fresh mozzarella cheese and load it up with your favorite toppings or my suggested toppings.

Since the crust is thinner than the store bought pizza crust, check on the naan pizzas in 8 minutes. I like to broil it on medium for 2 additional minutes to give it a nice crisp.

Enjoy!

You can’t have pizza without wings! So I served then with my favorite BBQ wings.

Seasoned with Sazon seasoning

Tossed in a honey bbq sauce and served with blue cheese.

It’s no secret that Market Basket in Chelmsford has been undergoing a major face lift since the big competition, Stop & Shop opened across the street where the old cinema used to be over a decade ago. Stop & Shop, the largest New England food retailer finally won the battle after many years of numerous blockages and had its grand opening just in time before a major holiday season, Thanksgiving of 2011.

Today, Market Basket opened up its Market’s Kitchen in the Chelsmford store. Many of you may already be familiar with it since its already featured in the Tewksbury. Market’s Kitchen is comparable to the hot foods sections of many other competitors such as Stop and Shop and Wholefoods Market (on the luxury end).

Customers can browse and pick and choose different things to make up their meal. The choices are endless at the new Market’s Kitchen in Chelmsford. There is a made to order deli station, pizza station, sushi station in additional to the fresh hot fried foods like egg rolls, chicken wings and onion rings. The beauty is that the set up is very convenient and affordable. Unlike placing an order at a sub shop, we don’t have to order a “Small Onion Rings” or “Large Chicken Wings”, we can just pick and choose how many we want which costs less money in addition to reducing food wastage.

Market Basket Hot Foods Section

The Mo and I are huge fans since we never really know what we want to eat until we see something that catches our eye. Sometimes I am in the mood for sushi and he’s in the mood for something else. Usually he ends up getting the made to order grilled Cuban sandwich with extra hots whereas I like to try different things.

The new bakery stood out with their colorful displays of cakes, Italian cookies, pastries, and cupcakes. The featured cakes were not your typical “grocery store cakes” but more artsy and whimsical. They looked more modern and definitely caught my eye along with other customers who were already placing cake orders. The pastries itself were a big ticket item. I usually don’t see the bakery department busy compared to the deli department on a Sunday but today there were people asking for rum log rolls and cannoli’s. I coudn’t resist and picked up a few things myself. A mini cheesecake, espresso cake and a fruit tart only set me back $6.97.

My order

Although there is no salad bar, there’s a decent variety of premade salads in the refrigerator section where you can also pick up premade side dishes that can be reheated at home. Across the refrigerator is the hot rotisserie chicken with small and large chicken and premade subs.