This is a perfect winter weeknight meal.  Buy some pizza dough from the store, throw on some delicious winter veggies, finish with smokey bacon and mozzarella.  Done.  Awesome.

Remember how I only needed a little bit of squash for last week’s Carbonara?  Well, this is what I did with the rest of it – cubed it up and roasted it with shallots, thyme, olive oil, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.  I only used about half of this squash for the pizza – the rest of it?  Stay tuned.

Ugh, blurry picture.  Sorry.  Anyway, top some rolled out dough with slices of smoked mozzarella, the roasted squash, some kale rubbed with olive oil, and some halfway cooked bacon.  I bought some fresh dough from Whole Foods because I really didn’t feel like making my own, but I wish they sold wheat dough.  That would make things easy AND healthy.  Also, I really should have split this into 2 pizzas.  It was almost too big for my stone and I ended up with a lot of crust.

In the super hot oven, the bacon finishes cooking, the kale becomes crispy, and the cheese gets all melty and golden.  Yum.  The smoked mozzarella is really key here, it goes so well with the bacon and the kale – so don’t skip it! (more…)