Recipe #32: Caprese Pizza

One of our favorite meals has to be pizza. Hands down, no questions asked. We love our pizza. I know the last time we ate pizza we actually went to Little Caeasar's but this time, I promise you, is the real deal. Every Sunday night we have a family dinner and this is usually the only day of the week we ever have time to catch up as a family. Well the past few Sundays my Mom has given me a magazine or online article with recipes specific to our season.

Now this was actually a couple of Sundays ago, but she passed along her Rachel Ray cooking magazine that had a ton of flat bread pizza ideas for the summer. All of them looked so delicious but unfortunately I was not able to find pre-made flat bread for pizzas at the grocery store. To be fair, I did not have a lot of time to look at the grocery store either because Ian and I were on a time crunch to make it to a concert downtown. So I had to "settle" for a pre-made, regular pizza crust.

Let me tell you though the crust is a very important component to any pizza. You better have amazing ingredients if your pizza crust is just "so-so". Luckily for us our very fresh ingredients for our caprese style made this pizza impossible to go wrong. You can always do it better, I suppose, but this version of caprese pizza will leave your mouth watering for another bite. It's not a promise but it's a guarantee!

Ingredients:

* 1 large Kroger brand Pizza Crust
* 3 Roma Tomatoes
* 4 oz of Fresh Mozzarella
* 4 Tbsp of Olive Tapenade
* 0.33 oz of Fresh Basil
* 0.33 oz of Fresh Dill






Cooking Directions:

First, preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Take the olive tapenade and spread all over the pizza crust.

On a cutting board, slice your tomatoes and fresh mozzarella into roughly 1/4 inch slices.

Place the tomato slices in a circular row around the pizza.

Then do the same for the fresh mozzarella slices.

Place the fresh basil leaves sporadically over the top of the pizza.

On the cutting board, mince the fresh dill and then sprinkle the entire pizza.

Place in the oven for about 10 minutes before removing and serving.

I decided to remove the basil leaves since I placed them on top of the other ingredients. They became kind of crispy and unappetizing. (Next time I will hide them under the cheese so they don't burn.)