Pizza-nini

When I can, I like to come home for lunch.  Unfortunately, I have only 20 minutes total to assemble and eat lunch.  Usually this means I have leftovers or a grilled cheese sandwich.  This time the leftovers were mini pizza leftovers, but I didn't have time to mess with the oven and the 10 minutes of cheese melting.  What to do?

The solution: Make a mini-pizza sandwich and cook it in the panini press.  Voila!  The pizza-nini!

Looking good!

It turned out great, but it was very similar to eating a pizza pocket. Better than a pizza pocket to be sure, but certainly thematically similar.  

Mini Pizza

Here's a recipe that requires no recipe.  Here's the completely unnecessary recipe.

Mini Pizza!

Ingredients:
Bread of above average strength*
pizza sauce**
toppings***

1.  Preheat oven to whatever**** suits you
2.  Assemble mini pizzas
3.  Bake in oven until heated through and cheese is all melty, if you even used cheese.
4.  Let cool as long as you can stand it
5.  Put it in your face.

Before baking.  Left: Canadian Bacon and Pineapple.  Right: mini-pepperoni

After baking.  Mmmm...melty cheese....

*We used Filone rolls.  I hear english muffins work too.  What is a Filone roll?  I don't know, but we saw them at Target in the fresh bread section and thought they looked about right.

Filone 

**Pizza sauce can be anything goopy and tasty.  Spaghetti sauce, alfredo, garlic butter, whatever.  I used a pretty awesome no-cook pizza sauce recipe that was embedded in America's Test Kitchen's recipe for Thin-Crust Pizza.  If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can watch season 12 for free.  The no-cook pizza sauce recipe is in there, episode 8. You can also find the recipe on their website for free, but you do have to register.

Pretty awesome no-cook pizza sauce

***Pizza toppings: usual or unusual, meaty or veggie, anything goes!

****Our oven's default is 350, so that's what we went with.  However, the oven thermometer (which can also lie) said it was closer to 250.  The point is, nobody knows what temperature it was really at, but it was in there for about 10 minutes.