On the Today Show this morning I caught a glimpse of a food segment where a chef I peripherally follow, Matt Moore, was making a Cast Iron Pizza. To C's dismay I love cooking with my cast iron. Cooking a pizza in a cast iron never crossed my mind, but with a free day and a quick inventory of the pantry I had everthing I needed to give this a whirl.

I was surprised how easy this was to make. I've never made my own pizza dough before, so I was a little intimidated, but it turned out to be not as bad as I was expecting. After that it was pretty easy. There was leftover bacon from breakfast so I chopped that up for a topping along with some garlic.

Overall it was pretty tasty (P really liked it!). Not remarkable, but also not something you'd just feed to the dog under the table. The pizza was a little too doughy for my liking. That could be due to a couple things I overlooked. First, the recipe calls for a 15 inch skillet whereas mine was a 13 inch, so next time I might not use quite as much dough. Second, the recipe uses bread flour and all I had was all-purpose flour. I need to check if I need to make adjustments for this difference.

As our standard Friday night pizza bill has been creeping towards $100 after adding taxes, tips, service and delivery fees I've been trying to think of alternatives. I'll need to keep refining this as it could be an easy, affordable replacement to ordering out.