Before Baby Markers was born, almost every Friday night we would stay in and have pizza and wine night. We’d make our own pizza and sit drinking wine, talking about the week and anything else that came to mind. This became our favorite time to spend together and we looked forward to it all week. Now with a crazy toddler running around and varying schedules, we’ve gotten away from it. The other night Mr. Markers brought it up and we both agreed it was time to reinstate pizza and wine night, if only for the conversation!
This is one of our favorite recipes for homemade pizza:
Brussels Sprouts, Grapes, Pancetta & Goat Cheese Pizza
Ingredients:
- Trader Joe’s Garlic & Herb pizza dough
- Olive oil
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- Brussels sprouts leaves or pre-shredded brussels sprouts
- Red grapes
- Pancetta (cooked over medium-heat until crispy)
- Thinly sliced shallot
- Mozzarella cheese
- Goat cheese
- Balsamic vinegar or glaze
Roll out the pizza dough to desired thickness. It will stick, so use flour as needed. Flour a cookie sheet or pizza stone, lay dough out and smooth out uneven parts. Mix olive oil and garlic together, brush all over pizza (especially the edges which will be your crusts). Sprinkle shallots, pancetta and brussels sprouts all over pizza. Cover with mozzarella cheese, then add grapes and goat cheese to the top. Cook at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Drizzle with a good aged balsamic vinegar before serving.
Voila! What’s your favorite homemade pizza recipe?
blogger / pomegranate / 3491 posts
This sounds delicious and so different from our typical red sauce with pepperoni. Totally going to try this next time we go to trader joes for supplies
blogger / nectarine / 2600 posts
Yum My MIL does homemade pizza every week on Friday and I love it I want to try myself
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
Sounds delicious, I will have to try this for our next pizza night!
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
We love pizza night at our house! When the boys are a little bit bigger we’re going to need to make this a weekly thing!
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
Ooooo yum! We love pizza night. We don’t do it every week, but at least once a month. We love playing old rat pack music while we cook.
blogger / clementine / 998 posts
Yum! I made some pizza last night and overdid the tomato sauce so this looks delicious
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We do pizza Friday too. I make the dough in the bread machine. I make a heart and a face pepperoni pizza for the preschoolers. For the grow ups today I did onions, feta, cilantro, and mushrooms with broccoli on my side and sliced pepperoni on his. We find glen muir to be our fav pizza sauce.
bananas / 9118 posts
That sounds good, normally I’m not a brussel sprout fan, but maybe I’d like them on a pizza?
My favorite pizza sauce is easy- a can of tomato paste!
blogger / pear / 1563 posts
This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing!
blogger / nectarine / 2687 posts
we love homemade pizza night!!! our favorite is a rachael ray recipe with ricotta cheese, chicken, sundried tomatoes and broccoli…yum…and now i want pizza!
grapefruit / 4049 posts
those grapes look amazing on pizza. I’ll have to try that next time!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Yum!! I can’t wait to have the kids help with homemade pizza night. Pizza is most definitely my biggest weakness!
blogger / persimmon / 1398 posts
You know, we had a very similar tradition when we were a couple… and then we picked it back up with S last year. But somehow, it got dropped. You have inspired me to kick it back off again! Thanks!
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
Just put pizza on tomorrow night’s menu. Yum!
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One of the families I nannied for used to do pizza night and let everyone put their own topping on their own piece of pizza. I thought that was genius!