Saturday was a pizza adventure! It started off because I’ve been very recently into the Try Guys on youtube and I watched a video with one of the Try Guys called “night in, night out”. He and his wife pick a meal and cook it at home, then go out to eat a professionally made version at a restaurant for two dates back to back and compare which date they enjoyed more. I stumbled on their pizza night video and thought their stuffed pizza from Tasty was a really cute and fun idea that Caleb also might like. While he enjoyed the concept of making pizza together, he wasn’t super into THAT much cheese so we decided to make a regular pizza instead. While looking for manageable recipes, Caleb found pizza pockets by one of his favorites Matty Matheson. There were other recipes we found but we didn’t factor in time for the dough to rest overnight so we went with Matty who has a rest/rise time of 20mins. That’s the type of level we’re on.
Caleb recently got a fancy KitchenAid stand mixer for Christmas because his family loves him, so he was pretty excited to get the chance to finally set it up. He was in the charge of the dough and I was in charge of prepping ingredients for the filling. He loved it. The dough came together super fast in the stand mixer and was ready and resting by the time I got half of the ingredients out of the fridge. It had even more time to rest which probably helped it quite a bit. We got very excited about this pizza pocket concept and decided to make a bunch of different types of pizza. Matty’s recipe yields 8 pizza pockets but I wasn’t perfectly precise in cutting the dough so we ended up with 9, some smaller than others but not a big deal to us. We made a couple buffalo chicken pizza pockets, a couple veggie pizza pockets, and classic pepperoni and cheese, a pepperoni and sausage, and a sausage pepper and onion pizza pocket. Of course we had a bunch of fillings leftover and decided to make two large supreme pizzas with everything inside. Caleb went for that one the next day for lunch and said it was actually pretty good. The buffalo chicken was the odd man out but it didn’t ruin the pocket and he was satisfied with that.
I picked the sausage peppers and onions pizza pocket and it was amazing fresh out of the oven. Our crust got nice and crisp but the filling was really nice and gooey on the inside. We could’ve used a little tiny bit more cheese inside but the ratio wasn’t bad the way it was. We also heated up some regular tomato sauce to dip which made everything even better with that acidic tomato kick. We were really proud of ourselves and the food turned out great. We had a fun time and it took a couple hours of our day but it was nice to have an activity to do together that we could enjoy and that was fruitful. A good use of money and a good time together.