Hey It’s Sausage Pizza Day!

Hubby’s absolute favorite pizza on the planet has to be Sausage and Mushroom. He might eat other pizzas simply because we are sharing, but if he were to order an individual pizza, you can bet it’s sausage and mushroom.

Once upon a time, I was a pepperoni gal myself. Now I’ll eat just about any kind of pizza. My latest favorite is a toss up between Chicken Fajita or Garlic Chicken in a white sauce. Hubby says if a pizza doesn’t have a red sauce, it’s not a pizza. Kiddo likes to put either crumbled goat or blue cheese on his pizza.

Today is Hubby’s Day. Okay, it’s really National Sausage Pizza Day. May as well be his day. Now as you know, I can’t possible serve something up for dinner and post it that same morning. This time around celebrating a National Day early to share on the day worked out well since it’s Friday. We aren’t having Sausage anything on a Friday.

I might make a cheese pizza in the spirit of National Sausage Day. If I do, my guys will be happy since it means they get to eat pizza twice in one week.

This is a real cheat of a pizza since I’m using pre-made dough and a bottled sauce. October is a busy time of the year for so many reasons. Typically the weather is beautiful, so in the Event business, it’s the busy season. I never know when they might be home at the end of a very long day, which makes meal planning a bit of a challenge. When you need to start cooking at two to have dinner by six and the guys don’t come home till seven, that doesn’t work. After a day like that, they want something small – maybe just a sandwich. So things that can be thrown together quickly that aren’t big, heavy meals works best.

Enough rambling from me. Let’s get to cooking, shall we? Oh, and while this started out as a Sausage Pizza, when I discovered we had some Pepperoni in the fridge, I thought why not? The pepperoni and shallot are purely optional, but a nice touch all the same. I know, I know – we’re supposed to be cooking by now.

Italian Sausage And More Pizza
1 tablespoon Cornmeal
1 (10- oz) tube Refrigerated Pizza Crust
1/2 lb Italian Sausage
4 Mushrooms
1 Shallot (optional)
1 cup prepared Pizza Sauce
1/2 cup Pepperoni slices (optional)
2 cups shredded Mozzarella
1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese

Heat oven to 400-degrees. While the oven heats, sprinkle a round pizza stone with cornmeal, set aside.

Roll dough out into a 12-inch circle using a lightly floured rolling pin. Place on cooking stone, let dough relax.

In a skillet, brown sausage. Drain and set aside.

While the meat browns, clean, stem and slice mushrooms. Peel and thinly slice shallot onion. Break slices into slivers, set aside.

Once the oven is hot, pre-bake crust for 8 minutes. This will give the crust a more crisp finish.

Spread pizza sauce evenly over the crust. Top sauce with the pepperoni, Italian Sausage, mushrooms and shallt. Sprinkle Mozzarella first, then Parmesan over the top of the pizza.

Place in the heated oven and bake for about 8 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Turn oven to broil, let cook a minute or so longer. Remove from oven, let cool 5 minutes. Slice and serve.

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