Week 12 assignment-- Going off your  Inventory Shopping List and this week’s sales, buy the 3 months’ worth of as many different items as you can (= Buy For 3) as your new budget allows.    You'll do this through Week 21.

Have you ever made pizza from scratch?  It's delicious. To get directions on making pizza, go to the basic bread recipe, and scroll down until you see “Pizza”.  Directions are there, including for making enough of a super-simple red sauce for your pizza.  You'll want the sauce for pizza pockets, too.

Pizza pockets are fun, portable, completely customizable, AND they freeze well.  You can make them to suit food allergies; nondairy cheese can be used in these if you like. This recipe can be doubled, tripled, quadrupled  make whatever quantity you want to make for dinner plus extras for packable lunches. 

To make 8 regular pizza pockets or 6 large ones, you'll need:

-One loaf’s worth of bread dough

-8 oz. shredded cheese

-One 8-oz. can of tomato sauce (you'll only use half)

-Dried or fresh herbs- oregano, basil, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder, ground black pepper, rosemary, fennel (use whatever you have and like.  I often use only oregano, garlic and onion powder)

-Toppings-- crumbled bacon, pepperoni, cooked sausage, leftover chopped cooked chicken or hamburger, mushrooms, zucchini (shredded and squeezed dry), chopped bell peppers, spinach leaves, diced tomato, olives… Plan on ¼- ½ c. of each topping, for each 8 pockets you make.
 
Roll dough out as you would for pizza crust, a rectangle about 8x15”.  While the dough relaxes after rolling, pull out your sauce, cheese, and other toppings.  Oil a 12x18" baking sheet, sprinkle with cornmeal for extra crunch, OR line with parchment. After your toppings are ready, roll the dough larger, to make it measure about 13x19". 

With a pizza cutter or knife, cut the rolled dough down the center the long way, then in fourths the other direction. (See photo, below.) This will give you eight rectangles, each about 4x6”.