Homemade cheesesteak pizza [Pics]

Inspired by JimInLoganSquare's post about cheesesteak and cheesesteak pizza, I decided to whip up one of the latter tonight. I made my first pizza dough just last week, and this one was the first I've actually been really happy with. In particular, the crust was pliant enough to fold, then crisp enough to crack yet stay intact.

Unfortunately, my Canon camera hasn't been plugged in since well before I moved in August, and even though I started charging it before I started heating up the stone, it still wasn't ready when the pizza was done. As a result, these are taken with a pretty crappy cell phone camera and edited for color balance as best I could. There's not a whole lot of detail, but each of these pics links to a somewhat larger version, and maybe you can see details a bit better there.















Since it was pretty spur-of-the-moment, and an appointment threw my schedule off, I had to work with what I had. From top to bottom, that's Paulina Market flank steak, Black Diamond aged cheddar, caramelized onions, and the crust, the generic KitchenAide manual recipe. I have to say I nailed rare on the steak, with a good crust that its stay in the oven enhanced further. Next time, I'll cut the steak into smaller pieces (doesn't it look weirdly bacony in these pics?); other than that, for my fourth pizza and one that was inspired by the seed Jim planted and improvised to use up some odds and ends, I was pretty happy.

[Forgot to use the [Pics] flag in the subject header. Apologies to anyone who got caught offguard on dialup.]

Bob S. wrote:other than that, for my fourth pizza and one that was inspired by the seed Jim planted and improvised to use up some odds and ends, I was pretty happy.

Bob,

For a fourth attempt pizza is looking very darn good! Actually, I'm glad your pics were a bit light on detail or I'd probably be making cheesesteak pizza for breakfast.

Enjoy,
Gary