i wouldn't normally make pizza. i like pizza, certainly, but pizza is junk food and something i will order and have made for me. i'm the same way with hamburgers. i will make myself lots of things, but i will order pizza.

however, they gave me a small stack of tomato sauce when i was at the food bank last fall because it was piling up. nobody wanted it. so i grabbed it, and i'm going to make "pizza" with it.

my dad used to make these cheeseless mini pizzas on english muffins that were extremely italian - they had no cheese on top, but were rather loaded with basil and oregano on top of the sauce, and something on them like olives or tomatoes and often chopped ham. they were really english muffins baked with tomato sauce and topped with pesto. this is something approaching traditional italian pizza rather than the franco-american pizza we eat today in north america. his third wife had an aversion to cheese and would get upset even watching somebody else eat it, so there was no cheese on anything he made (these mini pizzas, spaghetti, penne, whatever), unless i put it on when i ate the leftovers. all leftovers went to me, because she wouldn't eat leftovers, either; she insisted on only eating prepared food, and would just throw out whatever wasn't eaten, if nobody would stop her. dad would shrug off the cheese, but he couldn't accept the food waste, and i was happy to eat the leftovers as it gave me the ability to schedule eating when i wanted to - after school, in the morning or, sometimes, at 3:00, when i came in from somewhere, and was watching rereuns of star trek. her aversion to leftovers meant there was always something in there to microwave when i came home, even if i didn't come home for supper that night, or even if they brought something back from a restaurant, and that was actually very helpful to me, as a young person. you would need at least four, sometimes eight, of these mini pesto pizzas on english muffins to fill you up, as a meal. he'd make like 50 at a time and leave what was left in the fridge for me, and sometimes i'd eat them for a week at a time. 

so, this is an idea i'm familiar with and have eaten a lot of. however, it's because of that that i'm going to address some of the defects with these mini pizzas i grew up on. 

i did not know until recently that the words pita and pizza are actually the same word. so, i'm going to one up him a little on making this out of thick greek pitas, like this, and not out of english muffins:

the major difference between the greek pitas and the probably more well known arab pita is that the greek pitas do not have pockets and are not meant to cram stuff in. you would be more aware of this if you've had a gyro or a souvlaki; you roll them up like a thick tortilla, or you just put stuff on it and eat it like a canadian beavertail, which is essentially a fancy desert souvlaki.

but what i see is a small premade pizza dough, and that makes sense, because pizza and pita are the same word, and that is exactly what it is. 

i am going to go through one can of sauce per meal and we'll see how many that is but i imagine it will be two or three. i bought a stack of them pre-made in the bread section at walmart and it should be enough to get through the sauce, i think.

when i buy a pizza, i don't order it with pesto and tomatoes, although i do like the ham and olives. depending on how much i want to spend and what i feel like, and what's on sale (2 or 3 toppings), my usual pizza toppings are, in hierarchy:

core, always:

- bacon

- olives

first add:

- pineapple

second add:

- extra cheese (but it usually doesn't count)

third add:

green peppers

i will put hot sauce on the pizza when available and, if i take it home, will prefer to make my own dipping sauce out of frank's + caesar.

i have all of these ingredients and will be using all of them, along with the following toppings on the cheese:

- avocado

- garlic

- oregano, thyme, basil

- nutritional yeast

i think we know how to make pizza, it's the ingredients here that are unusual:

- make the bacon first (don't fully cook)

- slice fresh pineapple,  green peppers

- grate cheese

- start with the greek pitas

- put the sauce down, add hot sauce to tomato sauce

- rub some of the bacon grease around the edges of the pitas

- add green olives, bacon, pineapple, green peppers and anything else (grilled chicken, perhaps, but i'm not adding that ingredient)

- add cheese

- bake

- chop avocados, garlic while baking

- add avocadoes, garlic, spices, nutritional yeast, hot sauce to top of pitas when they come out

- slice them in four

there won't be crusts here, but if i want a dipping sauce, i'll mix frank's and caesar dressing together to make it.