Pizza Bites

Last night Preston and I had pizza bites for dinner. Was it a healthy dinner? No. Balanced? No. Delicious? Yes, yes, one thousand times YES.

Pizza bites are exactly what you would think they are - they are individually sized cute little dough balls stuffed with mozzarella cheese and/or pepperoni. And lo, they are awesome. They were great for an unhealthy Wednesday night dinner, but I imagine they'd be perfect for appetizers for a crowd because 1) they're really easy to make (and to eat once they've cooled down - they pull apart beautifully), and 2) everyone likes pizza, yes?

I found the recipe at Annie's Eats, a spectacular cooking blog that I found through RA. The recipe is here; Preston and I followed it nearly exactly and were huge fans of the results.  Because we are really lazy, we used pizza dough from Trader Joe's, and because we are really forgetful, we ran out of pepperoni and mozzarella cheese about 2/3 of the way through the dough. We used provolone for the rest of the bites, and it was great. Because we were trying to stretch our pepperoni, we only used one piece per bite, but Preston noted that two pieces per bite would really carry the flavor better - just the one piece was a bit hard to distinguish from all the doughy and cheesy goodness. We dipped with pizza sauce (also from Trader Joe's, which apparently owns our souls). We polished off the whole batch between the two of us, but Preston was kind of miserably full afterwards (I felt fine, even though I looked five months pregnant as opposed to three months pregnant). If you served these as a meal with a salad or a side dish, I'd say one batch would serve four.

Basically, just go make these. They are easy, they are delicious, and they are pretty adorable. And we all know how important it is for our food to be adorable, right? RIGHT.