When I was little, I used to spend my summer vacations going to a nearby lake and swimming all day.  When we would come home, my brother and I would eat those individual frozen microwavable pizzas.  My favorite was the cheeseburger pizza.  It was complete grubbing food and I loved it after a full day of swimming and horse-play.

Then last week I noticed that all of the internet was abuzz about superbowl parties and the food served at these parties.  A superbowl party is nothing more than an excuse to be completely hedonistic food-wise.  Nobody is going to a superbowl party and having a mesclun salad with a slight squeeze of lemon.  People go to superbowl parties to eat chili, chips, 40 different kinds of dips, wings, burgers, hot dogs, and pizza.  Now, I didn’t attend a superbowl party.  I stayed home and cleaned house.  The next day, I got on the internet and Googled, “Who won the superbowl?”  However, I was thinking that if I were to attend one next year or some unassuming internet surfer should be looking for an interesting recipe to take to a superbowl party, then this cheeseburger pizza would be a great thing to share.

When thinking about how to formulate a recipe for a cheeseburger pizza, I first asked myself what I like to eat on cheeseburgers.  I like gooey cheese.  I like bacon.  I like onions.  I like tomato.  And I like perfectly cooked, juicy meat.  That is how this recipe came to be.

A while back, I wrote another post about a homemade pizza.  Contained in that post are recipes for both homemade pizza sauce (it couldn’t be easier…don’t buy it.  Make it.) and pizza crust.  Check it out.

Cheeseburger Pizza

(My Recipe)

-1 recipe prepared pizza crusts (if you use the recipe I provide, it makes 2 thin crust pizzas)

-1 recipe pizza sauce

-1 lb. ground beef

-6 strips bacon, cut into small pieces

-2 cups thinly sliced onions

-1 large jar of yellow cheese product (Cheez Whiz)

Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.

Roll out pizza dough and place it on either a pizza stone or a pizza baking sheet.

Spread pizza sauce on the dough.

Add uncooked hamburger and bacon. I used thick sliced peppercorn bacon, but any bacon will do fine.

Add onions.  As you can see here, I add quite a lot of onions.  Keep in mind that they cook down, but you can absolutely cut back on the onions on this pizza if that is your taste.

Glob on the “cheese” product.  Look, when it comes to a pizza like this, you want a cheese that is smooth, savory, and completely unlike any real cheese.  This stuff works perfectly and, trust me, it is really shamefully delicious.

Bake the pizza for 15-17 minutes.

This recipe yeilds 2 medium pizzas.  It’s an easy recipe to double if you have a lot of people or big eaters to feed.

Gooey.  Savory.  Delicious.  Totally worthy of a kickass football game.  Or any televised sporting event, for that matter.  I hope you try this recipe.  It’s really delicious.

Enjoy!