Good afternoon everyone!!!  Hope you are all having a wonderful day today.  We have fall like weather today - when I got up, it is was only 42 degrees F here!!!!  But clear blue skies and definitely fall is in the air!!!

First off, I would like to apologize for not proof reading my blogs enough.  Being a teacher and a tutor, this is not good for me - lol.  Thanks to my teacher sister for pointing this out to me this morning, so I will try much better from here on!! :D

The recipe I am posting today took most of my morning, but my dear hubby is so worth the work, and my dear friends here are so worth the time to stop, wash your hands, take photos!!!! I love it all!!!  So here is todays recipe and all the pictures - warning, it is long!! :D

Homemade Pizza and Bacon Cheesesticks

This reipe is a homemade crust, and the recipe came from my sister, Teresa.

Teresa's Pizza Crust

Combine :
2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
2 and 1/4 tsp fast active yeast

Make a well in the center of dry ingredients, and add :
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup warm water (not too hot - it will kill the fast active yeast)

Blend well and let stand for 5 minutes.
Spread crust out on a sprayed pizza pan.
Bake at 425 degrees F for 25 minutes.

I doubled this recipe to make 2 16" pizzas.

Bacon Cheesesticks

Cover crust with butter or margarine.

Next, add cheese.  I used shaker parmesan, 2 cups shredded parmesan, 2 cups shredded pizza cheese, and 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese. Then on top of cheese, shake a bag of fresh baconbits.

 

Bake at 425 degrees F for 25 minutes - placing on top shelf will make your cheese nice and brown as in the next picture.

When you have sliced pizza into sticks, serve with leftover pasta sauce or pizza sauce.

Pizza

After you have the crust spread out on sprayed pan, place your sauce. I used a meat pasta sauce since my hubby cannot use anything too spicy with too much tomato acid. Then, I added shaker parmesan cheese, 2 cups parmesan shredded cheese and about 1 cup mozzarella cheese.
Then comes the meats. I used a little less than a pound of both bulk country sausage and hamburger.
I fry these up before I put them on the pizza so as to keep down on the fat that will sit on the pizza.  Another hint, I also fry my burger with some water to help take the fat out of the burger, and then strain the meat!!  I also did this with my sausage today, and it seemed to really help with keeping the fat down.
After the meats, I then put on fresh sliced mushrooms.  I only needed  a little over half of an 8 oz. package of pre-sliced fresh mushrooms.  Then, to top it all off, spread 2 cups of shredded pizza cheese.

Bake at 425 degrees F for about 30 minutes - due to the meats, and the thickness of the pizza, I like to cook it a little longer,  I do not really like too much of a doughy crust.
And then you have...

Here they are ready for serving :

 

 Bacon cheesesticks ready to be served with left over pasta sauce for dipping.

How about a slice of pizza?

Care to sink your teeth into this yummy pizza?
By the way, this freezes well, speaking of which, I must now go and package it up for the freezer.
Have a great day friends!!!!!!