That fact that it was Friday night was an excellent excuse, as far as I'm concerned, for taking a tiny cooking vacation and getting take-out pizza instead...well, in this case, take-out/bake-in Papa Murphy's pizza. To make this meal as simple as possible, we were taking a kitchen time-out after all, a lopped off wedge of iceberg lettuce with Thousand Island dressing was a delightful change from the usual tossed salad. Just to keep myself in culinary check, however, I must confess that the salad dressing was not from a bottle. When it is so easy, much healthier and infinately more delicious to put together a quick creamy or vinaigrette dressing at home, I just can not justify the stuff out of the bottle.
To make this tasty Thousand Island dressing combine the following: 1/4 cup mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons ketchup, 2 tablespoon sweet pickle relish, 1 tablespoon minced onion, dash Worcestershire sauce, dash hot sauce, sprinkle of garlic powder and salt and pepper. Prepare the dressing about 15-30 min. before dinner to allow the flavors time to mingle. Also, a fabulous onion ring or french fry dipping sauce, particularly if you add a tablespoon or two of horseradish!
Papa "Murphy's" (nice Italian name) is a store brand like DellGiorno? Can't say I ever had one of these. In New York it's too easy to go down the block (or blocks) for good pizza.You poor mid westerners.
ReplyDeletePapa Murphy's pizza might have tomato sauce and mozzerella cheese, but that's the only thing that resembles Italian pizza. All sorts of crazy combinations that would likely make you purists cringe. They prepare the dough with whatever toppings you request and then you take it and bake it at home. Hey, as far as I'm concerned, if it tastes good they can call it a flying saucer.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I would love to try an authentic New York pizza from a coal fired oven!! It's one of those things on my "bucket" list.
I would send you one, but we purists have a thing about reheating pasta or pizza!
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