Oh I can feel, coming in the air tonight…
It feels like fall!
It’s coming!
This is my first fall back east in over 12 years. I’m sooooooo excited. So as the weather cools down we decided to heat up the kitchen.
You all know how we love our pizza.
Well, really, who doesn’t?
We do all kinds of pizza around here
We do BBQ Chicken Pizza
We do Grown Up Date Night Pizza
We do Pizza Puffs
We do Potato Pizza I mean we are Fitzpatricks after all
We do Muffin Man Pizzas
We even do Upside Down Pizza
For tonight I decided to use up the dough I had frozen from when I made the Date night pizza and slapped in on the pizza rock and we made pizza two ways…
Tomato
and Pesto
Both of which were great. Why? Because we topped them both with sauteed mushrooms, garlic, fresh mozzarella and wait for it…
PANCETTA!
Turns out I’m the only one who really likes the pesto. Bummer, guess I’ll just have to eat it all myself.
They’re both delicious, here’s how you make them.
2 pizza dough (you can use store bought, from your local pizza joint, or try this recipe for homemade dough here)
1/4 cup prepared pesto sauce
1/4 cup pizza sauce (try the organic san marzano sauce from Whole Foods…YUM!!!)
2 large balls fresh mozzarella, sliced into thin discs
1/4 lb pancetta cut into large slices
8 oz sliced button mushrooms
8 oz sliced portobello mushrooms
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella
4 cloves garlic chopped fine
2 T olive oil
S&P
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Heat up 1 T olive oil. When it’s hot add in your pancetta. Cook until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Add in an additional T of oil if needed. Toss in your sliced mushrooms. Saute until soft, about 8 minutes. Add in your garlic and cook for an additional minute. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Next stretch your dough to the desired size. We went for small pizzas. Slather one dough with your red pizza sauce, the pesto to the other. Or you can mix your sauces and get a yummy basily good tomato sauce. Sounds like another recipe brewin’… Top the sauce with mushrooms. Top each with fresh mozzarella, then shredded mozzarella. Top the cheese with the pancetta and bake each pizza for 15 minutes or until nice and bubbly.
Serve with a side salad. Trust me, there’s no leftover pizza for the next morning on this one. Yes I eat leftover pizza for breakfast. Don’t judge, always have, always will. Also eat leftover chinese for breakfast.
It’s my fave. What’s yours?
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Both pizzas look yummy, but I’d go with the pesto one! I’ve been wanting to try out a homemade pizza for awhile and you’ve just given me the shove I need!
BTW, I also enjoy eating leftover pizza for breakfast too and lasagna for that matter. So that makes you a girl after my own heart.
Pizza and salad…what could be better. Love it, especially on a Friday night when we’re going to eat pizza and watch a good movie.
P.S. Thanks for your comment on King Henry’s blanket. 
mmmmmm….pizza! This sounds wonderful. I’d be fighting you for the pesto pizza though, so watch out! We are definitely thinking on the same wave length here.. I made pizza Sunday night!!! I love pizza and making it at home is so much fun!
I agree – Fall is in the Air! Yippee! I’d really like to come to your house for dinner tonight! Really! It sounds so yummy! And you make your own crust! I am awed! I need to learn how to do that!I love your toppings. I never thought of sauteeing (sp) them, but I can see how that would bring out the flavors. I’m definitely going to try that! Still – I’d rather eat at your house! LOL
LOL! Way to take one for the team and eat all the pesto pizza by yourself. I love pesto. These look so yummy! Thanks for sharing!
They both look yummy! I’m a huge pizza lover.
Oh yes…we love our pizza! It’s a great way to heat up the kitchen with the weather turning cold so rapidly.
Any pizza is my favorite. Yum!
Oh man, my stomach is GROWLING! Those both look delicious but I’d have to go with pesto as well – YUM!
oh yum!!
anne
SO jealous you get a New England Fall. It’s been 15 years for me. WAAAAH!
we love pizza! my mom is amazed that jackjack can eat an entire slice all by himself.
hmm, pesto? that’ll be great with some left-over chicken, right?
I LOVE pesto…send some my way
Yum! those both look GREAT! We don’t do many pizza nights around here…strangely enough, my kids aren’t that crazy about PIZZA! Trust me, Mommy and Daddy love it, but the kids don’t really get all excited about it like they should 
YUM! More pizza ideas. YAY!! Both look so delicous. Can’t wait to try the flavor combinations.
My kids LOVE to make homemade pizza. I love your varieties. I am going to have to try them.
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Have a great day!!
Rachel
Oh My! We had a pizza party yesterday too with homemade pizzas. I couldn’t get my photos loaded before bed last night unfortunately. I guess I will have to finish it tonight. I sure wish I was spending my fall back east again. I love those cool New England nights. ~sigh~
Maybe next year for me….I am dreaming of New Hampshire. :0)
Thanks so much for stopping by to see me and commenting on my sushi. It was yummy for the third weekend in a row…but I have to say the pizza has the edge this week.
Take care….Candace
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Some great looking pizzas! My fav also includes mozzarella and basil. Yummy.
Hi, I’m returning the follow love. Those pizzas look yummy!
Oh my goodness….I could eat pizza everyday. Like you said, there are so many kinds that it can be different everyday! Those pizzas look delish. And there is nothing better than fresh pizza dough baked in the oven! I’ll never go back to store bought!
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I love pizza …pesto look yummy.
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I am your new follower. You can follow me back at http://showmemama.blogspot.com Wow, it sure looks yummy!
Thanks for this post. I really want to start making more of my own pizza at home rather then ordering take out.
I’ll eat the Pesto with you girlie! YUMMY
Oh, may I please have some for breakfast??? And then have another slice to bring to work for lunch???
I love pesto on my pizza’s, so share some OK
My fave pizza’s start & end with just about anything you have in the fridge & yummy molten mozza but have been known to even use parmesan cheese if there’s no melty stuff around!!!! Went out to a restaurant last week with my gal pals and what was on the menu do you think? Caramalized Chocolate Banana pizza with ice cream. So…, its official., almost anything you can think of works when it comes to pizza’s.
This pizza makes me want to try to make one…Good luck to me! haha