{"id":310,"date":"2011-05-04T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/2011\/05\/04\/qupside-downq-margherita-pizza\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:51:50","slug":"qupside-downq-margherita-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/qupside-downq-margherita-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"“Upside Down” Margherita Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you look close – the basil is upside down in the sauce…<\/p><\/div>\n

When I make pizza, it’s always an event.\u00a0 Baking in a home oven, I can’t make an extra large pizza for the family, or friends and call it a day.\u00a0 I’m limited by not having one of those large pizza ovens!\u00a0 Frankly, I don’t think I’d like to do that anyway.\u00a0 Half of the fun in making pizza is trying a few different recipes, or letting the kids or guests build their own.<\/p>\n

Fresh Bruschetta is so simple, yet so good!<\/p><\/div>I usually make enough dough and toppings to have enough to ensure there will be left-overs.\u00a0 I think this may be one of the main things I learned in college – cold, next-day pizza is an important part of life.\u00a0 It’s not as good as when you first have it fresh out of the oven, but it somehow isn’t far behind.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Another ritual that I have developed during my pizza making sessions is to come up with a few recipes and buy the ingredients for those, but leave a pizza or two to chance, or try something new and spontaneous.\u00a0 I usually leave these pizzas till the end, to use up the ingredients, and to try different combinations.\u00a0 This is how I came to play with Peter’s Herbed Olive Oil and Cheese combination, creating a variety of great cheese breads, and “white” pizzas (no sauce).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

For this recent pizza session, I wanted to try to recreate one of Kelly Whitaker’s pizzas that he created for us using Bel Gioioso’s Fontina Cheese.\u00a0 I’ll post that pictorial next time.\u00a0 He added Prosciutto and sauteed mushrooms and used the juice of a fresh tomato bruschetta topping as the sauce, then topped it off with some fresh, wild arugula.\u00a0 Sounds good, and it was! \u00a0Actually, everything Kelly made for us was off the charts amazing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I made the bruschetta topping a few hours early so the flavors would become more and more blended as it sat, waiting for it’s supporting role.\u00a0 As I was making the topping I realized I was looking at the basic ingredients of a Margherita Pizza (tomato, fresh basil – cheese to follow).\u00a0 I decided that this would be my “left-overs pizza.” \u00a0I don’t know why, but I thought of it as an”Upside Down” Margherita.\u00a0 I admit there is nothing upside down about it, but it’s my title and I’m sticking with it.\u00a0 It’s memorable.<\/p>\n

“Upside Down” Margherita Pizza Recipe:<\/p>\n

Fresh Bruschetta Topping:<\/span>
three \u00a0or four chopped plum or garden tomatoes
chopped fresh basil, about 10 to 12 leaves
a little chopped fresh garlic, maybe 2 to 3 cloves
1 tablespoon of olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste<\/p>\n

I made it in advance, again to let the flavors come together.\u00a0 I’m sure you could play with this simple recipe and add all sorts of flavors – like a balsamic vinegar that would give it another layer of flavor.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“Upside Down” Margherita Pizza:<\/span>
I used Peter’s Country Dough for this one (see the Instructional Section on this site).\u00a0
fresh bruschetta topping\u00a0
fresh mozzarella, about 2 or 3 ounces per pizza<\/p>\n

The Oven–heated as high as it will go, with a pizza stone.<\/p>\n

Extra olive oil for drizzling when it’s done
*I also added a little more basil after cooking.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

*The chef’s assistant pictured here is a beer from the artisan brewery called “The Bruery” The beer is called Saison Rue; <\/em>Kelly Whitaker introduced it to me when we filmed with him back in October.\u00a0 Kelly served it with a Sous Vide <\/em>cooked <\/em>Beef Short Rib that he finished in the wood burning oven to give it a more firm, slightly charred, crispy crust — wow! You’ll get to see that in the near future in an upcoming Instructional Video.\u00a0 The Saison<\/em> is an interesting French\/Belgian style ale with a lot of character and depth that went terrifically with the rustic dough and fresh ingredients of this and the other pizzas I was making.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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