The Green Pizza

Ok, I made enough macarons today to make a normal person's head spin, so this blog is decidedly going to be "non sweet."  Friday night here at the Auble household is pizza night, or rather "stay home and make pizza night" and when I say "we", I mean me of course.  We usually have something with red sauce, cheese and homemade pickled jalapenos, but today I was feeling a bit daring....behold:

Pizza Crust

1 cup warm water
2 1/4 tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar

Put the first 3 ingredients in the bowl of a Kitchen Aid mixer and let stand until frothy- usually about 10 minutes.

Start kneading with the dough hook and slowly, by about 1/2 cups, add about 3 cups of flour and 1 tsp salt.  I say about, because depending on a million different factors (weather, flour, cycle of the moon), you could use more or less.  You want to end up with a soft, almost sticky ball.  You will need about 7-10 minutes total after you have added the flour.  Once the dough ball is ready, I like to scoop it out of the bowl, spray the bowl with cooking spray and put the ball back, covering with plastic wrap.  Let rise about one hour.  After one hour, I like to punch the dough.  Feel free to punch it as hard as you like, it doesn't care, it's dough.  Your main goal here is to deflate it to let it rise again, let it sit, covered, another hour.

Green Pizza

1 recipe pizza dough
Jarred alfredo sauce  You can make homemade, but who are you trying to impress?
1 bunch green onions, sliced thin, green and white parts
1 large bunch spinach- steamed, squeezed of all water and chopped -today I got mine out of the garden and got some bonus earwigs and a big fat red spider.  For the love of god, please wash everything before you put on the pizza
1 bunch asparagus, sliced thin
Pecorino Romano
Black Pepper
Zest of one lemon

Preheat oven to 500 degrees
Stretch pizza dough out on sheet, cover with alfredo, sprinkle on chopped spinach, green onions, black pepper, asparagus and lemon zest.  Sprinkle liberally with Pecorino Romano cheese and drizzle with olive oil.  Bake for about 15-17 minutes, voila!

-Jenny