Pizza Popovers

I can't think of a better name for this.
Ingredients

• 1 recipe pizza dough
  
• 1 recipe pizza sauce
  
  
  
  • 14oz tomatoes, canned
    
  • 1/3c basil, chopped
    
  • 3 cloves garlic
    
  • 1 onion, chopped
    
  • 1/2lb ground beef
    
  • olive oil, marsala, salt, pepper, beef bouillon
    
  
  
• cheese (mozzarella, chevre, or smoked gouda?)
  
• 1 egg yolk mixed with 1tbsp water
  

Prepare a recipe of pizza dough (2.5c flour, 2.25tsp yeast, 2tsp salt, 2tsp sugar, ~2/3c water) and set it to rise. In the mean time, prepare a recipe of pizza sauce. I pretty much cooked the onion along with the ground beef. The ground beef was more or less frozen when I started, so I had to periodically remove the thawed parts from a huge chunk of ground beef. Probably it would be better to thaw the meat completely next time. Anyway, when it was more or less cooked, I added all the other ingredients and set it to simmer for a while, covered. After a little while, I added some beef bouillon to improve the flavor, and some marsala.

Once the pizza dough is ready, remove 2" balls of dough and roll them into wide discs, one at a time. Depress the disc into a muffin tin. Put some sauce in the cup, and then add a large amount of cheese. Pinch the dough shut at the top. Repeat until the dough is used up. Brush with the egg wash. Bake at 375 for 15-25 minutes, until golden brown on top.

Thoughts: These are delicious. The original recipe, which we did not follow at all, called for canned and premade everything, but I think that I liked this version. The pizza dough also contained about 2tbsp of rosemary, which I think really improved the flavor. We agree that this was delicious.

Disaster Index: 1/10