Thursday, November 10, 2011

Steak Pizza on Cornmeal Crust

Lazy dinner tonight. The natural food store in town carries pre-made cornmeal olive oil crusts. I like to have a pack on hand for nights we want a home-cooked meal but lack ambition. I've not tried making cornmeal crust myself, but there are plenty of recipes on the internets.
Tonight's pizza is tres simple. I sauteed crimini mushrooms with red onion, garlic, and sun-dried tomatoes (marinated in olive oil). Diced the leftover steak. Covered the crust with a soft bed of parmesan, added the veggies, piled on the steak, topped with more parmesan and blue cheese, and added a few sliced olives for good measure.

Bake in a medium oven, around 350 degrees, rather than the typically hotter temp you'd bake a pizza, since you want the cornmeal crust crispy and the toppings well melded. Check in 15 minutes. If the crust needs to brown more, turn off the heat and let it cook two more minutes.
There, that's the recipe. Beats Round Table.