First Pizza - What do you do with left overs from your Steak Dinner - Pics included.

Dmax007

Several friends were coming over for dinner last night, this would be the first time I would be feeding guests off the egg and they wanted steaks.  In the past SAMs club as been a pretty good place to purchase steaks - Good price and fairly consistent.  The trip to  SAMs club (kinda like Cosco for those who dont have SAMs):  Shopping list,  Inch to Inch 1/2 thick Fillets and Ribeyes, a couple of pounds of sea scallops, Asparagus, and while we were there we wanted to get "stuff for Pizza" for the next day.  The "stuff for Pizza" turned into buying 2 of the "Take and Bake" plain cheese pizzas.  We figured we would just doctor them up and put them on the egg.  

I wont waist time on the steaks...  They were a bit of a disappointment.  I think meat quality was the issue.  The fillets were yummy, the ribeyes were OK.  Veggies and asparagus were really good.  Threw on a few sea scallops for surf and turf - they were GONE.   We did have lots of left over grilled fillet and asparagus.  On to pizzas....

Fillet and Asparagus Pizzas:  

Loaded and lit the Egg. - PS Legs down, SS grate on top of the PS.  - Let it stabilize around 650 for about 10-15 minutes.  Clear smoke.

While the egg was stabilizing I took out the "Take and Bake" Cheese Pizzas,
Thinly sliced the left over Fillet and cut the asparagus in mouth-sized morsels.  Added these to the top of the Pizza, Added some fresh Romano cheese and a bit of Parmesan.
Placed the pizza on a pampered chief pizza stone.  The pizza hung over abut a 1/2 inch (This is BAD - next time I will trim the pizza to assure NOTHING hangs over)
Put the Pizza on the egg - shut the lid - Waited about 7 minutes before opening.
When I opened it the outsides edges were charred.  (Everything that was hanging over)
After seeing the charred crust - I thought I had to get it off ASAP.
Took it off and cut away the charred bits.  WOW  It was fantastic but the center could stand a bit more cooking.  So I decided to get the center right by heating individual pieces about 3 or 4 at a time.  Worked perfect...  I love pizza by the slice!!  All and All...  I think we will always have a few "Take and Bakes" in the fridge with lots of stuff to doctor them up with.  I think we are also going to try our hand at homemade dough --  but the take and bakes are very convenient and were fantastic!!!

Cheers, Thanks for looking!!

Dmax007

HAHA... I just noticed, you can get a really good look at cross sections of the Fillet!!  Nicely seared!!  

theyolksonyou

Nice use of leftovers. 

Meat quality definitely makes a difference.  

Chubbs

Good idea. Too bad I never have leftover steak...

Dmax007

Anyone else try the pizzas from SAMs as starters?