Get your leafy green pizza here!

I promised a spinach, feta, and mozzarella pizza and ta-dahhhhh....here it is. 

Before - before I even put the tomatoes on!

Here it is before it enters the oven, and here it is after it left the oven.  Overall, the pizza was good.  While it was cooking, I was nervous it would be too bland and dry, but it wasn't at all.





After it came out of the oven...before we ate it all up!



I sauteed the spinach with some olive oil and minced garlic while the pizza stone was heating in the oven.  Once the pizza stone was ready for action (don't forget to lay down some cornmeal before putting the dough on that hot stone!), I added the spinach as the first layer on the dough, and then generously sprinkled feta and mozzarella cheese all over.  At the last second, I remembered I had a tomato in the fridge, so I cut that up and sprinkled that on top as well.  After that, I called it a day and put it in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Once I took the pizza out of the oven, I added some red pepper flakes on top.  To be honest, I think the pizza would have been better without the red pepper flakes as we felt like they added an unnecessary kick, but again, overall we thought it was good.  So it's really up to you whether or not you want that extra lil punch!

In order to really enjoy this pizza (or any pizza), you should couple it with a delicious brew.  Our choose for this evening was a UFO White Ale.

I'm in love with our pizza stone.

We registered for a pizza stone for our wedding, and received it at our Bridal Shower.  But it was only a few weeks ago when I finally decided to use it.  It was one of the only gifts I hadn't used yet.  So after talking to one of my friends about how much she loves her pizza stone, I decided the time had come to test this puppy out.  And....I'm in love.

The first pizza I made was chock full of vegetables plus pepperoni.  Here it is getting ready for the oven.

I didn't take a picture when I took it out of the oven, but it looked scrumptious!  My husband thought so too.  My only issue with the pizza stone test run was I didn't use enough corn meal on the stone, making some sections of the pizza very difficult to get off the stone.  But don't worry, I learned from my mistakes. 

Pizza number 2 went a lot smoother, and didn't stick!!  I went with motz, pepperoni, peppercinis, garlic, and red pepper flakes...yummmm. 

Next week, I'm thinking of making a spinach, feta, motz, and garlic pizza.  Then maybe something with prosciutto.  I'll keep you posted! 

But if you want to start making your own homemade pizzas, and you just ran out and bought a lovely pizza stone, you should preheat your oven with the stone in the oven. While the oven is preheating, grab all your ingredients, your dough, sauce, and desired toppings.  I buy the pre-made dough (it's too much work to make my own!).  Roll out the dough, if you don't have a rolling pin, use a wine bottle, I know you have one of those lying around.

Once the oven has finished preheating, remove the stone, sprinkle a fair amount of cornmeal on it and carefully lay your dough on top.  Add your sauce, I typically use about 1/2 a cup of sauce.  Your sauce can be regular tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, pesto, anything you want!  Once you've added your toppings, throw the stone back in the oven and cook it for about 15-20 minutes depending on how crunchy you like your pizza, and viola dinner is on the table!