Pizza Night! {with homemade turkey sausage}

We looovveee pizza around here, and we often have homemade pizza on Fridays.  The perfect meal to kick off the weekend!  My 'go-to' homemade crust is this one, and if I use a store-bought crust, it is usually this one.

Many times we have plain.cheese. (because my kids are such adventurous eaters <--sarcasm 2="" a="" and="" b="" bacon="" bits="" canadian="" cheese.="" cheese="" combination="" healthier="" homemade="" i="" it="" just="" like="" little="" made="" make="" meat-lovers="" mozzarella="" night="" of="" on="" parmesan="" particular="" pepperoni="" pizza="" said="" sausage="" sprinkle="" this="" to="" turkey="" used="" with="">little

tiny smidge healthier!

Turkey sausage is very tasty, less fattening, and super easy to make.  I usually buy ground turkey in bulk from Sam's Club. I have been using a recipe from allrecipes.com, which I couldn't find online again when getting ready to do this post (but it was adapted from Judy Culbertson @ allrecipes.com)

Turkey Sausage 

1 pound lean ground turkey

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/4 teaspoon ginger

*fennel seeds (optional) Sometimes I will add in a sprinkle of fennel seeds if I am making the sausage to put on pizza. I leave it out if making breakfast sausage.

Crumble turkey in a large bowl. Mix in the salt, sage, pepper and ginger. Shape into patties if desired. In a nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, cook meat over medium heat for 6-8 minutes on each side (if doing patties) or until no longer pink (and 165 degrees F).

I added some onions, red pepper and fresh basil to my pizza!

What's your favorite pizza?  Do you have any Friday 'traditions'?!

I'm linking up today with Simple Living and Eating, Just Us Four; Bacon Time with Hungry, Hungry, Hypo; Six Sisters' Stuff, Not Your Ordinary Recipes, Simply Sweet Home, Rattlebridge Farm, Miss Information, Foodie Friends Friday, Close to Home, Taste and Tell