I grew up Iowa and was surrounded by corn fields everywhere. The corn fields were a means to an end, because corn helped to feed a vast array of livestock.  The livestock such as cattle and pigs became our meals growing up. I enjoyed the steaks, hamburger, sausage and bacon growing up.  I am unapologetically not vegetarian. My husband says that when we first started dating had I been vegetarian we would have not lasted as a couple. I don’t think we even would have gone on our first date.  This meat pizza pays homage to my childhood.  Meatza pizza is a savory combination of hamburger, Italian sausage and pepperoni for an amazing pizza night.

Most of my pizza creations involve meat, other than my Margherita pizza I am making some meat pizza.  This Pizza Friday I wanted to make a meat pizza, emphasis on the meat.  When building meat heavy pizzas, beef and pork products provide a good counterbalance of flavors and can be found on a Supreme Pizza.  I decided to use ground sirloin, pepperoni and Italian sausage for this Meatza pizza.  This meat pizza was not only savory but filling.

Pepperoni

I don’t often make comments on the ingredients I use too much, but in this case, I am making an exception.  Prior to this recipe I had always bought the prepackaged pepperoni slices in the round coins when making my pepperoni pizza.  Had I been the one that had gone shopping this past week I would have bought the prepackaged ones again.  This time my husband was shopping, and he thought I wanted fresh sliced deli pepperoni.  So, he went to the deli and had some fresh sliced thin from the log.  They had Boar’s Head brand in the case, so he chose this one.  They were about 3 inches in diameter and a sixteenth inch thick.  Wow, the level of smokiness with a slightly spicy savoriness of this pepperoni made the pizza extra craveable.