Earlier this week I shared my favorite homemade pizza dough recipe with you and it got me thinking that you might also want me to share my favorite easy homemade pizza sauce recipe too. After all if you are going to make pizza, knowing how to make your own pizza sauce with pantry ingredients will probably come in handy! There have been so many times where I have decided to make pizza on a whim and then I don’t have any pizza sauce in the pantry. This led me to start making my own pizza sauce with ingredients I always have on hand! And I have to tell you that after making my own sauce, I rarely use the store bought kind because my homemade version is so much more delicious! Homemade pizza sauce is just what you need to take your pizzas to the next level and I am going to show you just how easy it is.
Pizza night is a weekly occurrence at my house and something that my family always looks forward to. Beyond the excitement of pizza, because hello, PIZZA…it’s the process of making the pies together that makes it extra special. I’ve been letting my son get involved in helping me make the dough and prep the ingredients since he was about two and he takes such pride in helping me roll out the dough and top the pizzas with all of his favorite toppings. It’s a simple but sweet family tradition that we will continue for years and years to come. Homemade pizza dough is actually quite easy and I have a recipe that I have been using for years that I am finally sharing with you after many requests from all of you! My easy pizza dough will have you feeling like you are at your favorite pizza shop right in your own home any night of the week.
Happy Monday! This week is a super busy week for me! We have Parks' follow up doctors appointments for his kidney (please say prayers that everything is healing just the way it should) and I have so much to do before leaving to go to Baton Rouge for the Louisiana Book Festival to do my first ever cooking demo and book signing!! I am excited and nervous...and more excited. In addition to this week being super busy, the weather has shifted and it no longer feels like fall...whomp whomp. Don't worry though, to keep myself in the fall spirit, I am cooking with all the fall flavors I possibly can! My apple, bacon, and pumpkin pan pizza with caramelized onions is seriously so delicious and screams fall in the best way!
Sweet and salty always wins me over. It gives me the best of both worlds and satisfies all of my cravings. I recently heard about an Italian dish that was so simple, but so genius. It was literally roasted sausage and grapes that were cooked together! I immediately knew this was a combination that I had to try out for myself! The marriage of pork and a sweet fruit is not a new idea by any means. I have used figs, cantaloupe, peaches...the list goes on. For some reason though, I have never thought to use grapes! And what a pleasant surprise it was! My sausage, grape, and ricotta pizza is the perfect sweet and salty combo that makes for a light and summery pizza!
If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, pizza would be a top contender. I love it. Most weeks I find a way to eat it, whether it's takeout, homemade, or even easy pita pizzas will do the trick. I'm not picky either. I like it with sauce, no sauce, veggie, or meat lover style. I am very non-judgmental when it comes to how I like my pizza. Is anyone with me here? Maybe it's because I love carbs and cheese, but regardless you guys have to get on board with this new combination of pizza!
At this point, I have officially declared my love for figs. Those little plump fruits that I basically went my whole life only eating if they came in the form of a Fig Newton, because for some reason until I moved to Louisiana, I had never eaten a fresh fig. I know...right? I was missing out big time. I'm glad we were formally introduced and now have a relationship with one another. A relationship where I devour those little beauties and make delicious recipes out of them. My fig, honey, and prosciutto pizza has been my go to summer pizza because the salty and sweet flavor combinations are so good that I'm going to apologize for not getting you this recipe sooner.
Seriously, it's easy, delicious, and you will want to make it at least once a week while you can still get your hands on fresh figs. If you have some fig skeptics in your family, make this pizza and I guarantee you that they will love it!
And really what is there not to love? Crispy, honey coated crust, spicy balsamic onions, sweet figs, salty prosciutto, and fresh peppery arugula. My mouth is watering just talking to you about it.
If you have never taken me seriously about a recipe before, now is the time. Make this pizza, and I won't judge you if you want to eat the whole thing. Because you just might be tempted to and that's ok.
After all, we can't be held responsible when pizza and figs are involved.
Can we talk about how there are few things in the world better than a good slice of pizza? It ranks right up there with a great kiss, puppy breath, and realizing that top you have been wanting from Free People just went on sale. We have been known to have pizza night once a week because lucky for me, I married a fellow pizza connoisseur who is equally obsessed. And I'm about to change the game on your regular ole pizza with my farmer's market smoked sausage and corn pizza!
Y'all...holy cow was I surprised at the flavor combination the first time that I made this pizza. It was love at first bite. I knew I had to make it for you and share the recipe because one shouldn't keep this kind of deliciousness to themselves.
I do have a confession though...I tried a new technique because I read a fellow blogger who did this and thought hey that's genius...and maybe it is, but I did not feel so genius after trying it. I put my pizza stone right on my grill to recreate a wood burning oven effect and instead broke my pizza stone right in half (sigh). It seemed so brilliant, maybe it was just my stone...or maybe it was just me.
