My attempt at pizza pockets

So every now and then I'll get these ridiculous ideas where I think it is a good idea to do something that has already been perfected by someone else.  Last night I decided I would make homemade pizza pockets.  It was just one of those days and I figured making homemade pizza pockets would be an excellent way to forget about the day.  I made the dough and the sauce.  Of course I took pictures!

I added all of the dry ingredients. Smelt pretty good because the recipe called for onion and garlic powder!

And the mixing begins...If only I had a kitchenAide stand mixer...

I think I over-mixed the dough. I tried to leave it alone for a bit to see if that would help at all.

Intruder? No, that's just my Doris. She gets really chatty when I'm in the kitchen. I think it has something to do with the fact that I'm not paying complete attention to her - only child syndrome, clearly.

The pizza sauce! Consists of tomato paste, garlic, parsley and oregano. I added just under a cup of water to it because it was super thick.

Diced green peppers waiting to be sautéed with mushrooms.

Mushrooms and green peppers in the skillet with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil.

Doris makes another appearance in the kitchen craving some attention from yours truly.

The redneck in me made an appearance.  I don't have a rolling pin, so I used a finished bottle of wine and covered it in flour so that the dough didn't stick to the bottle.

The assembly process beings! I cut off a portion of the dough (I don't think I rolled it out thin enough) and then I put some of the homemade sauce on it. I stuffed it with salami (couldn't find pepperoni), the green peppers and mushrooms AND of course cheese!

Baked them in an oven at 450 for 10 minutes and this is the end result.

I must say that I was kind of disappointed with these pizza pockets.  The sauce ended up being a little bland, the dough was wayy too thick and I'm pretty sure I overworked it. Next time I'll try using different flour since this time I used a wheat/white flour blend. I think I'll add more spices to the pizza sauce in order to combat that blandness.

What an adventure!