The pizza project

So.. pizza’s. We’ve been talking about what project to do after we finish our Cheese & Burger society project. Wisconsin cheese did make a new website celebrating Grilled Cheese sandwiches. Which is alright as a concept but why not pizzas? Pizzas are great and for some reason we always eat them at home, and always end up eating the same ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ pizza. That’s no fun. Whereas there are a ton of pizza’s out there, all unique snowflakes ready for the eating.

Apple spinach feta pizza

Original recipe

Ingredients: Apple, feta, parmesan, spinach, and bacon (that last one was our idea)

The verdict: The feta didn’t really melt very well. It just stubbornly stayed put wherever you left it. Next time I’ll use brie or some other super melty cheese. The pizza was great though.

7/10

Rucola & mascarpone pizza

This is a reconstruction of the best pizza I ever had. It came out of a woodoven at my cousin’s house in the mountains of Lucca. To make it, you need to roll out pizza dough out very thinly. Then cover it with tomato sauce and ham, preferably prosciutto, but normal ham works out fine too. Ignore the directions on your pizza dough recipe: put the oven up as high as it’ll go and pre-heat it properly. Then slide the pizza into the oven until the corners start to just blacken and the ham curls up from crispiness. Top with generous portions of mascarpone and arugula.

It was the best thing in the world. This is just a tribute.

Ingredients: Tomato sauce, ham, mascarpone, arugula

The verdict: Awesome. Every bit as good off of the mountain

9/10

Caramelised onions with figs and goat cheese

My first tomatoless pizza. I’m not overly fond of pizza’s topped by a cheese that doesn’t spread wildly in the oven, but the combination was too good to pass up. It’s a slow pizza to make because the onions need quite some time to caramalise properly and get all sweet and delicious.

Ingredients: caramelised onions, fig, goat cheese

The verdict: pretty good. I didn’t miss the tomatoes. But it didn’t have that real pizza feel to it.

7/10