Spinach and Chicken Sausage Pizza

Pizza is one of my favorite meals. Thankfully, Kenny has a lot of experience cooking pizzas. Although it can be tricky to learn, with a little practice it's worth it. Homemade pizza is a really inexpensive meal that you can thow almost anything from your fridge on. There are two tools you will need to make the pizza, a pizza peel and a pizza stone. These tools that are inexpensive investments and are worth it! We bought our pizza stone for $15 and our pizza peel for $10. You can also cook other things on your pizza stone, such as cookies. Ours came with suggestions of other ways to use it.

Homemade sauce:
1 can of whole, peeled tomatoes (about 4 tomatoes) drained with juice reserved
2 cloves of garlic
2 tsp Italian seasoning
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
2 cups mozarella cheese
1 cup spinach
4 sausages cooked and cut into 1 inch slices (We found apple chardonnay sausages and garlic chicken sausages at Trader Joe's)
Pizza dough; we bought Trader Joe's premade dough for $0.99 (If you can't find the uncooked dough, buy a premade crust.)
Cornmeal or flour for dusting the surface

1. Turn on your oven to 450 degrees. Make sure your pizza stone is in the oven. Put the garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper in a bowl and use a hand mixer to combine. Blend until the garlic is chopped up.

2. Drain the tomato can and keep the juice. Add the tomatoes to the blend and combine with the hand mixer.

3. Add in 3 tablespoons of the reserved tomato juice. Put it aside.
4. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium/lo heat. Add one tablespoon of olive oil. Place 4 sausages in the pan. We cover ours with a splatter screen while they are cooking because it can get messy. Rotate the sausage while cooking, leave on each side for about 3 minutes.

5. When all sides are browned remove from the pan. Let them cool and cut into 1 inch slices.

6. Get all other toppings ready to assemble your pizza. Now you will get the crust ready. Remove the dough from the refridgerator. Put cormeal or flour on your pizza peel. A pizza peel looks like a wooden cutting board but has a long handle. This makes it possible to place your pizza on the pizza stone without burning your hands. Putting the cornmeal on it will make it slide off easier. Push out the dough into a circle, about 5 inches in diameter.

7. For this next step I took a video because it is the tricky part. I'm having trouble posting it and will try to post it again later! You basically stretch the dough between both of your hands and toss it in a circular motion to make it an even thickness.

8. Place the pizza dough back on a freshly dusted pizza peel. Add the sauce first; put it in the center and spread out with a spoon.

9. Add the spinach, then the cheese, then the sausage.

10. Slide your pizza onto the pizza stone in the oven. Cook for 10 minutes and spread butter over the crust. Let it cook for 4 for minutes. It should become fragrant when it is ready. Remove with the pizza peel. Last, add grated parmesan to the crust.