PIZZA TUESDAYS

Poached pear dumplings, blue cheese sauce with basil & walnuts, arugula, raspberries We’ve played around with using dumpling-style toppings on pizzas before (see: Samosa Pizza). It’s a bit decadent to have dough on dough, sure, but it’s also extra tasty! This time we wanted to sweeten the deal with some poached pears that are peeking out of the little dumpling blankets they’re in. It’s cozy and delicious. Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of pizza dough flour for dusting semolina fl

Homemade tomato sauce (with anchovies, basil & garlic), fried polenta croutons, Danish Blue cheese, poached eggs, hazelnuts, sauteed tomatoes with balsamic vinegar, wilted frisee & radicchio Poached eggs are a really good alternative to the baked egg on a pizza. They may sound like they're more complicated, but poaching an egg is actually a lot simpler than you'd think. Plus, you don't have to worry about cooking your eggs at the same rate as your pizza dough and finding that

Marinated sardines (with grapeseed oil, sherry vinegar, thyme, parsley & Aleppo pepper) with avocado, toasted almonds, scallions, red onion, mint & lemon juice This recipe was adapted from Gabrielle Hamilton's Prune cookbook. I've never been to the restaurant in New York, but I was completely won over after reading her memoir Blood, Bones & Butter, so I thought I'd give one of her recipes a try on a pizza. It's definitely an adventurous one, but if you are down with the recen

Poached plum jam (with vanilla bean, whole anise star, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, cloves, honey & red wine), shaved manchego, pretzel pieces, arugula, orchid blossoms Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of dough flour for dusting semolina flour for pizza stone olive oil salt & pepper edible flowers of your choosing (we found orchids at Reading Terminal Market, but it might be a good idea to just look up edible flowers in your area—you might even be able to pick them yourself!) h

Homemade poached quince puree, caramelized yellow onions, pistachios, rosemary & garlic roasted purple potatoes, shaved aged cheddar Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball pizza dough flour for dusting semolina flour for pizza stone olive oil salt & pepper 2-3 purple potatoes, thinly sliced 1 sprig of rosemary leaves, minced 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 hunk aged cheddar, shaved 1 yellow onion, sliced 1 tablespoon brown sugar dash of sherry vinegar handful of pistachios For the p