Cheeseburger Pizza

pizza dough
hamburger, browned and crumbled
cheese (I recommend a mix of cheddar and mozzarella)
ketchup
mustard
chopped onion

Preheat oven to 500 (if you're using a stone, preheat for at least a half hour, a whole hour is best). Roll out the dough and top with mustard and ketchup. Top with cheese, onion and hamburger. Bake till golden brown and bubbly.

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Ok, everyone knows how to make pizza. I know this. I also know that I've covered pizza in the past. But this is a different pizza! It has totally different stuff on it. Plus I made it and took pictures. So, I'm posting them and the recipe. It's kind of what I do. Anyway, here's the thing about hamburger pizza. You just put what you would put on a hamburger, on a pizza. So it can be anything. I have a standard combination here, but you could do barbecue sauce, bacon, jalapenos, green chilis, tomatoes, mushrooms, whatever you like. Although I don't recommend lettuce or mayonnaise. Unless you do it afterward. Once I had some cold bacon pizza so I put a little mayo and lettuce on it and it was like a BLT. That was good. But that's not what we're doing here. This is a basic hamburger pizza.

First, roll out the dough and top it with ketchup and mustard. And onion. I put the onion under the cheese so it doesn't brown or cook all the way. If you want brown onion, put them on top of the cheese. Now cheese. I would normally do a mix of cheddar and mozzarella, but I didn't have any cheddar today. So it was all mozzarella. I like using slices. They don't make a mess when I'm a klutz. Now the hamburger. I seasoned the hamburger with salt and pepper, plus a little liquid smoke. Then I just browned it up and crumbled it. Then I tossed the whole thing in the oven for maybe twelve, fifteen minutes. Till it was all brown and spectacular. You know, I don't think I've ever made a round pizza in my life. Huh. Whatever. The trick to getting all that crunchy browned cheese around the end is to keep the cheese layer thin there. If you are using shredded cheese just sprinkle a little bit around the edge bit and you will get the same kind of thing. And there you have it, a pizza that tastes like a hamburger. Good stuff kids.