Bubble-Up Pizza and Baked Onion Rings

Recipe inspired by this post, but (of course) modified slightly.
We made homemade baking powder biscuits, which made this recipe slightly less lazy, but still pretty dang easy. Roll out the biscuit dough and cut into little squares. Each square should be about the size of a normal ball of cookie dough. You don't want them too big—they'll puff up a lot, and it's good for each one to be about one or two bites.

Then we mixed the little squares of biscuit dough with a big can of spaghetti sauce, 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella, and a teaspoon of dried basil. Pour it into a pie dish (ours is a 9-inch deep dish, and it still almost overflowed, so it has to be a big pie dish, or else use a square pan), top with another 1/4 cup mozzarella, and bake, covered, for however long the biscuit recipe calls for baking them. You can uncover in the last few minutes to help brown the cheese on top.

I really loved this. I was nibbling at the leftovers in the fridge for the whole next day. I also really loved what a no-brainer meal this was. Apart from making the biscuits (and you can always buy the canned store kind), this required basically no measuring or chopping or thought. That's pretty awesome. I will say, though, that the two of us ate probably about 3/4 of this just for dinner. If we were making this for guests, we'd have to at least double or triple the recipe. I guess it's just that good!



We also made my sister's recipe for baked onion rings: chop up a big onion, and dredge the rings in flour, then a beaten, watered-down egg (like maybe 2 parts egg:1 part water), and a mixture of half panko breadcrumbs and half seasoned breadcrumbs. I forgot that part and only used panko, which made it very crispy, but not nearly seasoned enough. I think using all panko would be fine if I had remembered to add a lot of salt in with the breadcrumbs.

And then you just bake them at 400 until one side is golden brown (maybe 10-15 minutes?) and then flip and let the other side brown. Pro tip: you can spray them with vegetable oil before baking to make them, like, legit brown. The more oil you use, the browner they'll get. It's a fine line between trying to keep it healthy and light and trying to make it look (and taste) a little nicer. I actually forgot to add any spray, and they still turned out really tasty, but I wonder if they might have been even better with a little spray.