I like food...but it's complicated: I like pizza...but it's complicated

I long for the days when I could pull a frozen pizza out of the oven, cook it, and eat it.

It's a lot more complicated than that anymore.

Today I was craving barbecue chicken pizza. So I had some barbecue chicken pizza. It only took me forever to make it. Almost a week, in fact.

Last week I found chicken drums on sale for $.99/lb, and then $1.00 off the package. I bought 3 packages. Two days ago I knew I had to do something with them, or I would be throwing that great deal away, thus nullifying the great deal. I put all of the drums into my giant Instant Pot and cooked them up. When they were done, I drained them and put them into my fridge to wait for inspiration to whack me upside the head. Yesterday I picked all the meat off the bones and separated out all the cartilage and skin. I put the chicken bits into quart sized bags and froze all but one of the bags.

Today I made pizza.

When I say I made pizza, I don't mean that I tossed a frozen pizza in the oven and ate it when it was hot.

First I made the crust.

Last week I found a package of Bob's Red Mill Paleo Flour at the grocery store. I thought I would give it a try. It was great. And, it was gone pretty quickly. I have no idea what I paid for it. Going to the grocery store is a social outing for me, so I was just too busy talking to everybody to pay attention to what it cost. I'm sure it was expensive. I figured I could replicate the flour on a larger scale and for less than whatever I paid, so I went in search for a recipe. This is what I found. I measured out my almond flour and found I could make the recipe 11 times. Yeah. I made the recipe x11. I saved the package with the recipes and taped it to my flour bin.

This is what I used to make the pizza crusts.

Once I had the crusts made I slathered them with some good-for-me barbecue sauce that I found at my local grocery store.

I topped my pizzas with onions I caramelized in bacon grease, chicken, and bacon I found pre-cooked in the fridge, then dolloped more bbq sauce over the pizzas. At this point, I put one of the pizzas into the chest freezer on the pizza stone. A couple of hours later I transferred it to a ziplock baggie and left it in the freezer for later.

I topped the second pizza with vegan cheese. A word about vegan cheese... Or paleo flour... or anything else that you are going to substitute, really. It's not the real thing. Don't expect it to taste like the real thing because you will be sorely disappointed, and probably throw your food out. And this was too much work for that nonsense. Embrace the fact that it will taste good- but different.