PIZZA TUESDAYS

Spicy shakshuka with cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red bell peppers, Middle Eastern spices, feta, baked eggs, homemade za'atar pita chips, fresh parsley & mint I always get nervous about putting baked eggs on a pizza, because it's so hard to get the timing right. You want the eggs to be cooked, but also runny, but also you want the pizza crust to be cooked and not burnt. So if we're doing egg pizza, we usually go fried or poached or something else that can be made separately an

Jalapeño hummus, avocado smash with lemon juice & cilantro, feta, fresh radish slices, radish sprouts, chili flakes, everything bagel spice & fried eggs I don't care how basic it is, avocado toast is delicious. It's healthy, it's versatile, and we have been making it a LOT lately. Breakfast, lunch, whatever. Some people go for the avocado slices, but I prefer the smash. It lets you get away with different levels of avocado ripeness, and you can add some additional flavors int

Skyr & Brennevín sauce, wildberry jam, caramelized fennel & crimini mushrooms, black lava salt, licorice While we already made one pizza in anticipation of our trip to Iceland, this one was inspired by a lot of the ingredients and flavors we found while we were there. We found that while a lot of traditional Icelandic foods use harsh, acquired-taste Viking flavors like brennevín, licorice and fermented shark, Icelanders themselves tend to offset this by favoring sweet, rich f

Caramelized red apples, crispy bacon, Asiago, popcorn, Granny Smith apple slices with blackberry caramel sauce drizzle This week's recipe was inspired, obviously, by carnival food: popcorn, caramel apples, and of course we threw in some bacon for good measure (think of it as a corndog substitute). It's sweet, it's salty, it's better than winning a goldfish. Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of pizza dough salt & pepper olive oil flour for dusting semolina flour for pizza stone a cou

Slow cooked russet potatoes, onions & grilled seitan apple-sage sausage, plus pepper & garlic pork sausage, bacon, Irish cheddar & fresh parsley Harkening back to my Irish roots this week with a hearty Dublin coddle recipe for St. Paddy’s Day. Coddle is a dish that’s typically meant to use up leftovers (though in this case you’ll end up with more leftovers), so the ingredients are not super set in stone. And since we have a vegetarian in our household, that means making some

Spinach, feta, cottage cheese, sauteed red potatoes with paprika & garlic, kataifi (shredded phyllo dough) So yes, sometimes the “deconstructed” pizzas can get a bit silly, but what is pizza dough if not a spanakopita wrapper taken to a delicious, bready new level? A spanakopita pizza is just natural. We discovered kataifi, a type of shredded phyllo dough, at International Foods & Spices in West Philly, and it seemed like the perfect way to make the phyllo aspect a bit more p

Baked double-cream brie with homemade cranberry-pecan jam, topped with dried currants, dried cranberries, walnuts, pecans, honey, rosemary, thyme, sea salt & a sprinkle of chili flakes Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of pizza dough flour for dusting olive oil salt & pepper semolina flour for pizza stone For the cranberry jam: 1 cup cranberries (fresh or frozen) 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup pecans For the baked brie 1 wheel of your favorite double crème brie, sliced into thi

Mac & cheese with pumpkin, onions, Cheddar, Mozzarella, garlic & nutmeg, topped with scallions, chives, cherry tomatoes & toasted panko bread crumbs This pizza may not be the most elegant or refined of the pies we've created (especially compared to the previous one), but sometimes you just have to give in to pizza comfort food a little. We'd made a mac & cheese pizza before, though this was in the days when we were still bright eyed and bushy tailed and not writing anything d

Dark chocolate, sea salt, marshmallows, bacon, roasted sweet potatoes with cayenne, graham crackers, sorghum caramel drizzle It's been a while since we've gone all out with a dessert pizza, and we thought semi-savory s'mores would be the perfect comeback solution. I know everyone has their own marshmallow roasting preferences, so if you don't like them as toasty as I do (I'm that person who doesn't think they're ready until they've caught on fire), you can always add them for

Sauteed fennel, chanterelle & maitake mushrooms, aquavit & gjetost cheese sauce, shallots & dill We came up with this pizza after a visit to Adam’s parents in Minnesota, where Scandinavian cuisine is second only to cheese, and where we tried Aquavit and gjetost for the first time. Aquavit is kind of like a Scandinavian gin made with caraway and other flavors. It’s intense, but definitely worth trying. Gjetost (pronounced yay-toast) is a strangely sweet, almost caramely rich c