spinach salad

Hi and happy Monday eve. I hope you’ve had a spectacular day thus far.

Per the usual, I’m behind with posting and still have some weekend eats to share. Why aren’t there more hours in the day?

Anyhow, going back to the weekend, Isaac and I braved the cold and visited the Forest Hill Winter farmer’s market on Saturday morning. There were quite a few booths but the majority of them had prepared foods, meat or dairy. Faith Farms was even there sampling their delicious raw milk! Unfortunately there were no farms selling vegetables. I know there aren’t many veggies growing in VA this time of year but I thought there might be at least one vendor with some winter greens.

Since there were no veggies to be had we went for some decadent treats – Isaac bought 2 homemade cinnamon rolls and I bought a mound of neapolitan pizza dough from a “new-to-me” vendor, Pizza Tonight. Jason from over at Caramelized Opinions had tweeted me before I left for the market and directed me to get some dough. I haven’t fully decided if I wanted to buy pizza dough but when we arrived and I saw the Pizza Tonight booth, packaging and logo I knew I it had to be done.

What struck me is that they had little take out containers with everything needed to make a pizza – two homemade doughs, homemade marinara sauce and a special spice blend. Some of the containers even had toppings like sausage. We had sauce at home so I just bought 1 ball of dough. Although next time I think I need to spring for Victoria’s “Magic Sprinkles” – a blend of dried garlic, Italian parsley, salt and hot red pepper flakes or maybe some red onion confit.

Last night we were in the mood for pizza so out came the dough.

Isaac and I both worked at Domino’s Pizza in college so we are pretty much pros at making (and delivering) pizza. Yeesss I was a pizza delivery girl…

Isaac got a little creative with the flour.

EBF!

While Isaac might be better at rolling out the dough, I consider myself a toppings expert. Last night’s pizza included mushrooms, onions, garlic, spinach and smoked mozzarella.

After being heated in a 500° oven for 15 minutes, the pizza came out bubbling and smelling amazing…

We let it cool for a few minutes and then dug in. I had two slices and a spinach salad with hard boiled egg and roasted broccoli on the side.

T’was delicious – the crust was perfectly crisp and thin, just the way I like it and the smoked mozzarella tasted just as a good as last time. Pizza at home tastes better and is typically much healthier than anything you can get from a restaurant – especially when you have homemade dough on hand. Speaking of which, I really need to try making my own dough sometime. Until then, I’ll be scoping out Pizza Tonight.

Have you ever made your own pizza dough? I’ve heard it’s pretty easy, yet I’ve still never tried it…

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