Wednesday, May 2, 2012

ABT Pizza

No recipe needed for this one, it's just an idea that you can run with on your own.  Take this and riff on it - pizzas that use sliced ABT's (bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed jalapenos) as a topping.

ABT, ABT pizza, big green egg pizza, jalapeno popper pizza

Brick oven pizzeria's like Brixx Wood Fired Pizza or Hard Knox Pizza are all the rage the past few years.  Well the Big Green Egg is not only a grill and smoker, it's a great wood fired oven right in my back yard!
bacon wrapped cheese stuffed jalapenos on the grill
I smoked a dozen ABT's on my Smoke Hollow Smoker.  I only needed 6 but they have a 50% "quality control tasting" attrition rate.

pepperoni pizza on big green egg
First Alexis made a plain pepperoni pizza for Brett and Trevor.

pepperoni pizza on big green egg
Beats delivery.

sliced up ABTs for pizza
Sliced the ABT's.  They HAVE to be cold or they won't slice clean.

ABT pizza, bacon wrapped jalapeno popper pizza
Topped with the ABT slices and 4 oz of browned chorizo.

The fiery belly of the beast.

ABT pizza, bacon wrapped jalapeno popper pizza
Golden and bubbly.

ABT pizza, bacon wrapped jalapeno popper pizza
Proof of concept.
The idea of adding browned crumbled chorizo to our normal ABT pizza was one of those things where the sum of the parts was less than the ingredients on their own.  The ABT slices ROCK on their own on pizza.  Chorizo ROCKS on it's own.  But the two together on one pizza were a little distracting from each other.  

But you HAVE to try an ABT pizza some time.