Pizza Stuff

Here's a recipe for you to try.  It is fairly easy to prepare... you just have to plan ahead.  Pizza Stuff is Reed's all-time favorite dinner.  I make it for our monthly church lunch, too, and it disappears in no time.  One of our friends calls it Pizza Sandwich.  It really doesn't matter what you call it - but you'd better make a double batch - or you might not get any!

2 loaves of Rhodes frozen bread

1 pkg. shredded mozzarella cheese

15 slices hard salami

1 pound ground hot sausage, cooked

banana peppers

Pizza Sauce

Remove frozen bread and place on 2 cookie sheets.  Rub each loaf with butter and lay waxed paper on top.  Leave the bread to thaw for several hours.  Ideally, the bread will be thawed and not too cold when you begin to work with it.  If you leave it out all day, it will work, but it will begin to rise and you will have to punch it down before rolling.

Once thawed, roll the bread out with a rolling pin to the size of the cookie sheet.  Do the same with the second loaf.  Cover one rolled loaf with salami.  You can overlap the pieces, or spread them out, depending on how much you want.  Next spread the sausage on top of the salami.  Spread 1/3 of the cheese on top of the sausage to hold the inside together, then top with banana peppers.  Spread the remaining cheese on top.   Take the other rolled loaf and fold it in half.  Lift it off of the cookie sheet and place on top of the other loaf and filling.  Unfold and pull the entire top layer to cover the bottom layer.  Pinch the edges all the way around.

Bake at 350° until the top is brown (approximately 20 minutes). I move it to the bottom rack for the last 7 minutes to ensure that the bottom crust is crispy.  Cut it with a pizza cutter and serve with pizza sauce for dipping!

Other options:  I occasionally add fresh mushrooms, jalapeno peppers for the adults!

By the way, the above pictures show a batch that was cooked a little too long.  It should be light brown on top to avoid dryness!