Chicken enchilada pizza

Chicken second courses Italian cuisine

With all the craziness surrounding the tornadoes and storms that happened over the weekend here in Illinois, I think we all need a little bit of comfort. Whether it is the kind words and smile of a stranger or a familiar pair of sweatpants and a night on the couch with the ones we love, we all need to be comforted. I am certainly keeping the people in Illinois who lost everything in my heart and thoughts. I cannot even imagine. When thinking about what comforts me in times of trouble or after a bad day, I could think of one thing. Pizza. Homemade pizza, pizza that is delivered, thin crust, deep dish, hand-tossed, I like them all. In fact, I have rarely met a pizza that I didn’t like. When the weather is bad, I feel guilty calling delivery guys to our house. I feel like a five dollar tip does not validate driving through torrential rain. Instead, I reach for a stash of homemade pizza dough I usually keep on hand in the freezer. The other night while the pizza was baking, the smell of fresh yeasted dough filled the house. I loooove that smell. Apparently, so does …