Ahhh, pizza night! This is becoming an almost weekly tradition with Danika and I. We have been experimenting for a while with different toppings, and this is one of our favourites. We first off tried a pizza with a traditional reduced tomato sauce base, but found it pretty heavy, especially in hot weather. Thankfully our favorite is also our simplest. I love it when that happens!

The base is just roma tomatoes, covering the dough. On top is some slices of mozzarella. Scattered over this is a great array of sliced piquillo peppers, sweet onion and prosciutto. This is topped off with some fresh herbs, a little olive oil, and some salt and pepper. We have found that baking the pizza base in the oven before adding the toppings makes for a good crisp base, especially since our terrible oven cannot compete with a pro pizza oven in temperature. Just 8 minutes at 500,  and it comes out dead perfect. A few fresh herbs, and a little more olive oil, and we are good to eat!

I had some roasted tomatoes and olive tapenade left over from the other night, and had to make good use of it. There wasn’t enough of either to use in a main dish, but it just shouldn’t go to waste.. both were just too good. Out comes our trusty favorite.. Ciabatta! We often have pointless discussions about “if you had to give up x or y… which would it be” generally, whenever something is put up next to ciabatta (or any bread) it is bound to loose that argument. Yep, we definitely aren’t on a carb restricted diet.