/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I know the theme was “bougie” but with prices these days… eh. I was going to post gnocchi, but when I was making the marinara sauce my mom walked into the kitchen…
>mom: Oooooh. Are you going to make pizza, Anon???!!
>me: Y-yeaaaaah. Pizza! That’s right!
>mom: Yay!

So, I made pizza. Not that gnocchi is particularly bougie. I was looking forward to making it, tho. Anyway…

This pizza cost $10.82 to make. It is a thin crust pan pizza with marinara sauce, parmesan, extra mozzarella, pepperoni, black olive, mushrooms, purple onion, and yellow bell pepper. $5.50 of that was the cost for the mozzarella block I shredded and the 1/3 stick of pepperoni I sliced. I calculated other costs by weight and measurements of what I had on hand. I always have onions, bell peppers, and canned olives that I use for other things. I buy 11lb bags of 00 flour for pasta and pizza, so I took the cost of two cups of flour out of that.

I did not do the math on what this would have cost if I had rolled into a grocery store and loaded up my cart with every ingredient I needed to prepare this with an empty kitchen. I’m a little afraid to.

I forgot to take pictures of the marinara sauce in the pot. I have pictures of the dough in the mixer and the chopped toppings but honestly all of that’s a bit boring and would clutter up the thread, so I’m just posting the pizza.

Is my pizza perfect? Lol no. But everything is from scratch with fresh ingredients (except canned tomatoes) and it cost me $11 to make. I’ll reply to my post with what Pizza Hut would have charged me.