Revisiting Pizza (What Rebeca's missing, Part 3)

You may have read about the potato pizza we are fond of making (and fond of eating). Pizza is pretty easy to make and almost always tastes good. Here are a few other varieties we've come up with:

Olive pizza (shown in the photo at the top of this post). This one was based on a pizza we had at Emma's in Cambridge, MA. Their variety was green olives and cracked black peppercorns. We think we've improved it with the addition of Kalamata olives and freshly ground black pepper rather than using large tooth-splitting peppercorns. Very simple to make and really really good, especially as an appetizer pizza. The photo at the top of this post shows the finished pizza. This one shows the assembled olive pizza before it was baked in the oven. You can see the white/yellow grated cheddar cheese mixture we use on pizza and pasta here in Botswana since the mozzarella here tastes like tofu. Tofu's great...I just don't like it grated and on my pizza.

Spinach and roasted red peppers pizza. This one was a big hit with our audience (Rim). I stepped it up a bit in making the sauce for this one and paid off because this pizza was delicious! [The trick with putting spinach on pizza is that you must first briefly cook the spinach in a splash of water. Otherwise it will dry out and burn on the pizza as it bakes] Avocado Pizza. We had some avocados that needed to be eaten and decided to just give the concept a try. Shanthi expressed her doubts about this one when I explained the idea to her, but I pressed on. In the end, she was right...this one was a bit of a dud.I think that there were a couple of mistakes...one was adding blue cheese. It ended up overpowering the more delicate flavor of the avocados. The other mistake was related: we didn't really accent the flavor of the avocado. I think that if we attempt avocado on pizza again, we might try dollops of guacamole instead. The power went out (as per routine lately) just as this pizza was coming out of the oven, so I had to assemble and photograph it by candle light.