Upside-Down Pizzas: A Cowboy's Delight

The art of cooking is a staple of any ranch, and few dishes showcase this skill quite like our upside-down pizzas. It's a recipe that has been perfected over years of experimentation and fine-tuning, and one that never fails to impress even the most discerning palates.

As we begin our journey into the world of upside-down pizzas, it's essential to start with the foundation of our dish: the meat. We've added a generous helping of ground beef, browned until it's nice and tender, then mixed it with our tomato sauce. This is where the magic begins, as the flavors meld together in a delicious harmony that will leave you wanting more.

But we're not just stopping at any old meat mixture – no, sir! We're adding a bit of flair to this classic combination by incorporating sour cream and bacon into the mix. The sour cream adds a tangy twist, while the bacon provides a smoky depth of flavor that elevates our dish to new heights. And let's not forget the cheese – we're talking about good old-fashioned grated cheddar here, because what's an upside-down pizza without a generous helping of melted, gooey cheese?

Now that we have our meat mixture perfected, it's time to move on to the crust. We're using a delicious sourdough crust, which provides a slightly tangy base for our dish. To make this crust from scratch, we'll need a bit of flour, water, and some patience – but trust us, it's worth the effort. We'll mix together our ingredients until they form a smooth, pliable dough, then roll it out to the perfect size.

As we place our meat mixture on the bottom of the pan, followed by a layer of sauce and cheese, we begin to shape our pizza into its iconic upside-down format. This is where things get really interesting – instead of placing the toppings in the traditional order, we're turning them right-side up, with the crust at the bottom and the meat mixture at the top.

With our pizza taking shape, it's time to pop it into the oven. We'll preheat our Dutch oven to a medium-high heat, then add a layer of coals to the bottom for good measure. As we place our pizza in the oven, you can almost smell the aroma of sizzling meat and melting cheese wafting through the air.

Now, here's where things get really important: getting that crust golden brown. We want it to be perfectly toasted, with just a hint of crunch around the edges. This is where patience comes into play – we'll need to keep an eye on our pizza as it cooks, making sure it doesn't burn or become too dark.

But trust us, folks, it's worth the wait. When that pizza finally emerges from the oven, you'll be greeted by a sight of golden brown crust, bubbly meat mixture, and a layer of melted cheese that will make your taste buds sing. It's truly a culinary masterpiece – one that's sure to become a favorite in any household.

So there you have it, folks – our secret recipe for upside-down pizzas is out, and we hope you enjoy making and devouring this delicious dish as much as we do. Happy cooking, and don't forget to share your creations with the world!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ensaddle up folks it's upside-down Pizza time thank you for stopping by out here the wind is blowing a little bit today but some Cowboys is hungry so we're gonna let that stop us what are we making upside-down pizza yeah you heard me right you ain't gotta stand on your head to make it you ain't got to go to Pizza Hut you're gonna make this and I guarantee you there's a keeper people ask for it for ever what are we gonna do first we're gonna brown us up some hamburger meat seasoned it with some of that Red River ranch seasoning and when he nearly gets close to getting brown I'm gonna dice up an onion throw in there I'm gonna stir it all up let it cook a little so you want to brown all that up till it gets good and tender cooked down no it's brown so we've added our tomato sauce mixed it well good let it incorporate let Bertha simmer it along and we're going to add spaghetti sauce mix to this let it simmer awhile till it gets that flavor to go in oh I can hardly wait it'll work that done her job now let's do our we're gonna put this in a 16 inch oven today so we're gonna spray it good everywhere so it don't stick and remember all them folks that's been telling you you can't cook tomato based or acid based products in cast-iron you can if it's seasoned well and you take care of it well so let's get this meat in there so we're gonna do a little transfer location here cut the meat goes on the bottom remember the name of this upside-down pizza not all our meat in the 16 let's make sure that we get it spread out somewhat uniform and evenly in our pan here what's next folks sour cream and we're gonna put it on there and just like that meat we're gonna spread it around evenly and you it's sort of like heaven bacon in something you can't have too much of it so don't be scared you're gonna get too much now we're gonna put us a good old layer of cheese right there on top so we're gonna sprinkle ona a good amount and I mean good of regular old grated cheese here we've got to have a crust on it what are we going to use our sourdough pizza crust now shad will have you a little link up there to where you can find out this little recipe remember that breakfast pizza deal we made it was a sourdough pizza crust as well and who we all know it was good because y'all don't eat only it so I don't put together my sourdough crust I'm gonna flyer this board we'll dump her out there a little flour on my hands and you can see a little flyer and a winner so take a rolling pin and we're gonna roll it out to our hope the correct size it's pretty close to that size it is we can leave this as a marker right here you so we're going to trim it to fit you ain't gonna see me throw it up in higher the way the wind blowing today it would run away from me and looky there we got awful close we did try to rummage it around all over there where it fits everywhere let's get to cooking we're going to set that oven over on a trivet put a pretty heavy ring of coals top and bottom now why am I telling you this this is a good dish if you're just starting out cooking in a Dutch oven you want to get the kids out there in the backyard and cook this the meat is cooked the sauce is in there the onion is in there it's on the bottom remember it's upside-down the crust is on the top so we're gonna get that meat to simmer it and bowling up through there where it'll bubble up around the edges of that crust so when you get to cooking this and you see that good simmer in action come through there and that meat juices Bolling up around the outside edge of that crust you know what you can do take it off that bottom heat because now all we got to do is just make sure that that top crust gets good and golden brown it's easy as it can be you can see it you're not gonna burn it so folks what do we do now hungry Cowboys we feed them that's what me and Shan do they love this dish it is probably one of the I'd say top three requested meals that we do on a ranch any time we're cooking for cowboys but it's also a favorite we do at home we used to make this at least once maybe twice a week you ain't gonna get burned out on it and they ain't gonna be no leftovers that cheese in there and that sour cream and all this flavor blends together and the crunch of that crust well I'd rather have upside-down pizzas go to any Pizza Hut Domino's Mario Brothers whatever you want to call them this out here is fine dining at its best so get into cooking if you ain't got a bunch of Cowboys to feed holler at the neighbors tell them to come over because it's about shirring food and sharing conversations so get them over in the backyard let's feed them somewhat upside down pizza we thank you for stopping by the wagon in this beautiful country down here in North Texas it was sure good to be back on the ranch we thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to watch our videos we never take that for granted hit the subscribe button there on the bottom it's a great day above the grass god bless you see you down the trailsaddle up folks it's upside-down Pizza time thank you for stopping by out here the wind is blowing a little bit today but some Cowboys is hungry so we're gonna let that stop us what are we making upside-down pizza yeah you heard me right you ain't gotta stand on your head to make it you ain't got to go to Pizza Hut you're gonna make this and I guarantee you there's a keeper people ask for it for ever what are we gonna do first we're gonna brown us up some hamburger meat seasoned it with some of that Red River ranch seasoning and when he nearly gets close to getting brown I'm gonna dice up an onion throw in there I'm gonna stir it all up let it cook a little so you want to brown all that up till it gets good and tender cooked down no it's brown so we've added our tomato sauce mixed it well good let it incorporate let Bertha simmer it along and we're going to add spaghetti sauce mix to this let it simmer awhile till it gets that flavor to go in oh I can hardly wait it'll work that done her job now let's do our we're gonna put this in a 16 inch oven today so we're gonna spray it good everywhere so it don't stick and remember all them folks that's been telling you you can't cook tomato based or acid based products in cast-iron you can if it's seasoned well and you take care of it well so let's get this meat in there so we're gonna do a little transfer location here cut the meat goes on the bottom remember the name of this upside-down pizza not all our meat in the 16 let's make sure that we get it spread out somewhat uniform and evenly in our pan here what's next folks sour cream and we're gonna put it on there and just like that meat we're gonna spread it around evenly and you it's sort of like heaven bacon in something you can't have too much of it so don't be scared you're gonna get too much now we're gonna put us a good old layer of cheese right there on top so we're gonna sprinkle ona a good amount and I mean good of regular old grated cheese here we've got to have a crust on it what are we going to use our sourdough pizza crust now shad will have you a little link up there to where you can find out this little recipe remember that breakfast pizza deal we made it was a sourdough pizza crust as well and who we all know it was good because y'all don't eat only it so I don't put together my sourdough crust I'm gonna flyer this board we'll dump her out there a little flour on my hands and you can see a little flyer and a winner so take a rolling pin and we're gonna roll it out to our hope the correct size it's pretty close to that size it is we can leave this as a marker right here you so we're going to trim it to fit you ain't gonna see me throw it up in higher the way the wind blowing today it would run away from me and looky there we got awful close we did try to rummage it around all over there where it fits everywhere let's get to cooking we're going to set that oven over on a trivet put a pretty heavy ring of coals top and bottom now why am I telling you this this is a good dish if you're just starting out cooking in a Dutch oven you want to get the kids out there in the backyard and cook this the meat is cooked the sauce is in there the onion is in there it's on the bottom remember it's upside-down the crust is on the top so we're gonna get that meat to simmer it and bowling up through there where it'll bubble up around the edges of that crust so when you get to cooking this and you see that good simmer in action come through there and that meat juices Bolling up around the outside edge of that crust you know what you can do take it off that bottom heat because now all we got to do is just make sure that that top crust gets good and golden brown it's easy as it can be you can see it you're not gonna burn it so folks what do we do now hungry Cowboys we feed them that's what me and Shan do they love this dish it is probably one of the I'd say top three requested meals that we do on a ranch any time we're cooking for cowboys but it's also a favorite we do at home we used to make this at least once maybe twice a week you ain't gonna get burned out on it and they ain't gonna be no leftovers that cheese in there and that sour cream and all this flavor blends together and the crunch of that crust well I'd rather have upside-down pizzas go to any Pizza Hut Domino's Mario Brothers whatever you want to call them this out here is fine dining at its best so get into cooking if you ain't got a bunch of Cowboys to feed holler at the neighbors tell them to come over because it's about shirring food and sharing conversations so get them over in the backyard let's feed them somewhat upside down pizza we thank you for stopping by the wagon in this beautiful country down here in North Texas it was sure good to be back on the ranch we thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to watch our videos we never take that for granted hit the subscribe button there on the bottom it's a great day above the grass god bless you see you down the trailsaddle up folks it's upside-down Pizza time thank you for stopping by out here the wind is blowing a little bit today but some Cowboys is hungry so we're gonna let that stop us what are we making upside-down pizza yeah you heard me right you ain't gotta stand on your head to make it you ain't got to go to Pizza Hut you're gonna make this and I guarantee you there's a keeper people ask for it for ever what are we gonna do first we're gonna brown us up some hamburger meat seasoned it with some of that Red River ranch seasoning and when he nearly gets close to getting brown I'm gonna dice up an onion throw in there I'm gonna stir it all up let it cook a little so you want to brown all that up till it gets good and tender cooked down no it's brown so we've added our tomato sauce mixed it well good let it incorporate let Bertha simmer it along and we're going to add spaghetti sauce mix to this let it simmer awhile till it gets that flavor to go in oh I can hardly wait it'll work that done her job now let's do our we're gonna put this in a 16 inch oven today so we're gonna spray it good everywhere so it don't stick and remember all them folks that's been telling you you can't cook tomato based or acid based products in cast-iron you can if it's seasoned well and you take care of it well so let's get this meat in there so we're gonna do a little transfer location here cut the meat goes on the bottom remember the name of this upside-down pizza not all our meat in the 16 let's make sure that we get it spread out somewhat uniform and evenly in our pan here what's next folks sour cream and we're gonna put it on there and just like that meat we're gonna spread it around evenly and you it's sort of like heaven bacon in something you can't have too much of it so don't be scared you're gonna get too much now we're gonna put us a good old layer of cheese right there on top so we're gonna sprinkle ona a good amount and I mean good of regular old grated cheese here we've got to have a crust on it what are we going to use our sourdough pizza crust now shad will have you a little link up there to where you can find out this little recipe remember that breakfast pizza deal we made it was a sourdough pizza crust as well and who we all know it was good because y'all don't eat only it so I don't put together my sourdough crust I'm gonna flyer this board we'll dump her out there a little flour on my hands and you can see a little flyer and a winner so take a rolling pin and we're gonna roll it out to our hope the correct size it's pretty close to that size it is we can leave this as a marker right here you so we're going to trim it to fit you ain't gonna see me throw it up in higher the way the wind blowing today it would run away from me and looky there we got awful close we did try to rummage it around all over there where it fits everywhere let's get to cooking we're going to set that oven over on a trivet put a pretty heavy ring of coals top and bottom now why am I telling you this this is a good dish if you're just starting out cooking in a Dutch oven you want to get the kids out there in the backyard and cook this the meat is cooked the sauce is in there the onion is in there it's on the bottom remember it's upside-down the crust is on the top so we're gonna get that meat to simmer it and bowling up through there where it'll bubble up around the edges of that crust so when you get to cooking this and you see that good simmer in action come through there and that meat juices Bolling up around the outside edge of that crust you know what you can do take it off that bottom heat because now all we got to do is just make sure that that top crust gets good and golden brown it's easy as it can be you can see it you're not gonna burn it so folks what do we do now hungry Cowboys we feed them that's what me and Shan do they love this dish it is probably one of the I'd say top three requested meals that we do on a ranch any time we're cooking for cowboys but it's also a favorite we do at home we used to make this at least once maybe twice a week you ain't gonna get burned out on it and they ain't gonna be no leftovers that cheese in there and that sour cream and all this flavor blends together and the crunch of that crust well I'd rather have upside-down pizzas go to any Pizza Hut Domino's Mario Brothers whatever you want to call them this out here is fine dining at its best so get into cooking if you ain't got a bunch of Cowboys to feed holler at the neighbors tell them to come over because it's about shirring food and sharing conversations so get them over in the backyard let's feed them somewhat upside down pizza we thank you for stopping by the wagon in this beautiful country down here in North Texas it was sure good to be back on the ranch we thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to watch our videos we never take that for granted hit the subscribe button there on the bottom it's a great day above the grass god bless you see you down the trail\n"