Stellar Eats

If you read my main blog Stellar Path, you may remember one of my new year’s resolutions to make 52 different pizzas in 2012. Well, I’m a little late posting this one, but this is the first.

I may sure a pizza crust recipe here eventually, but this “pizza series” is more about identifying what toppings in unusual combinations are good on pizzas. I’ll do different crusts throughout the year. This first recipe was on a very thin cracker-crust, and it went extremely well with these toppings!

It couldn’t have been simpler. Rather than use sauce, we sprayed the crust with olive oil and some seasonings, put very thinly sliced tomatoes on top in place of the sauce, topped that with a few strips of prosciutto, and finished it off with some slice baby mozzarella.

Quick pizza tip – we have discovered that if you don’t buy your cheese pre-shredded, it tastes MUCH better! Apparently, some type of additive, preservative, chemical, non-food-stuff is put in shredded cheese to keep it from clumping, so we now shred all of our own. Granted, for this particular pizza, we just did slices, but it worked out amazing.

When they come out of the oven, we topped each pizza with a few spinach leaves.

The heat from the oven made the prosciutto oily, salty, and hot, and the flavors blended together amazing! If we weren’t pledging to make 52 different pizzas this year, we’d probably eat this one again asap. But trust me – you’ll see prosciutto again with other toppings. It is just too good not to eat over and over!