Chicago Pizza Blog by Home Run Inn

Every month this year we will be bringing you the "Best Chicago Pizza Recipes" with recipes submitted by our readers to www.homeruninnrecipes.com.  If you have a recipe idea please feel free to submit your own and you too can be featured.

Just take a look at what one of our creative pizza lovers, Mary Stolpa, of Greenfield, WI created from a Home Run Inns classic cheese pizza using seafood!

Craving something special for dinner but missing that gourmet touch? Bring the pizzeria to your house with a Home Run Inn frozen pizza instead of going out. Using your own creative touch for pizza is fun for the whole family! It’s totally flexible, incredibly inexpensive, and very delicious.

Ingredients:

1 tspn horseradish
8 oz whipped cream cheese 
1 1/2 cup cooked and peeled shrimp (medium size) 
1 tspn minced parsley 
1 cup fresh crabmeat (crab sticks can also be used) 
1/4 cup parmesan cheese

Directions:

Mix together the horseradish and cream cheese. Then dollop mix by teaspoonfuls randomly on the pizza. Add shrimp, crabmeat and minced parsley, distributing evenly across pizza. Sprinkle parmesan over all ingredients. Bake at 425° for 18 minutes or until crust golden brown.

What else can we say about this creative idea? The cheese adds such a great flavor to the pizza and compliments the seafood beautifully! The variety of seafood you can use for this pizza is up to you. You can sprinkle dried basil over the top with the parmesan cheese or dip your pizza in cocktail sauce. Once again let your “inner gourmet” run wild with your favorite Home Run Inn Pizza!

Thanks again to Mary Stolpa in Greenfield, WI for this delicious seafood recipe.

http://www.homeruninnrecipes.com/

As a busy mom, our work is never done and there’s never enough time in the day for all that needs to be done - one of those things being getting dinner on the table for the family. Here are a couple ideas from Home Run Inn - makers of your favorite Chicago pizza - on how to make this chore a little easier on mom and that will be a hit with the whole family as well.

Plan a food exchange with a friend or two. Once a month or once a week, make a dinner that can be easily divided into several meals and swap. Freeze the meals to keep, then heat up to serve. You’ll have dinners for several nights for the work of just one.

Need something fast and easy, right now? Pop in a Home Run Inn All Natural frozen pizza. Dinner is served, and the kids are happy. Start with a salad or serve with carrot sticks to make even healthier.

Plan ahead for the week so you can use ingredients for several meals. For example, a store-bought rotisserie chicken can be shredded and used for enchiladas, soup, and salad. Slow-cooked pork tenderloin quickly turns into barbecued pork sandwiches, or you can use these as additional toppings for your frozen pizza's given them your unique flare.

Order a Chicago pizza or a couple pasta dishes from our website before you leave work, and pick up on the way home.

When you’re all done, recruit the family to commit 10 minutes or more to helping clean up. This could be dinner clean up, picking up toys, or some other cleaning chore. Whether it's after a home-cooked meal or a frozen pizza, busy moms need all the help we can get.