Pizza Night: Deliciously Doable Recipes for Pizza and Salad

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Making consistently great pizza from scratch isn't complicated. Whether cooking pizza in your kitchen oven, a tabletop pizza oven, or an outdoor wood-burning oven, it all starts with the dough. In Pizza Night, Alexandra Stafford presents four simple doughs--thin-crust, Neapolitanish, pan, and gluten-free (plus sourdough variations)--and easy techniques for perfecting your crust. From there you can make a variety of pizzas, including Detroit-Style Pizza for a Crowd, Classic Margherita Pizza, and Winter White Pizza with Garlic and Herbs. You can make it the same day or ahead; make it extra cheesy and decadent or go the healthy road-pizza-making easily adapts to busy schedules and tastes and requires little in special equipment. Each pizza is paired with a salad made with seasonal ingredients, from a springtime Salami and Red Onion Pizza with Calabrian Chiles and Hot Honey served with an Arugula Salad with Prosciutto and Parmesan, to a fall Broccoli Rabe and Smoked Mozzarella Pizza accompanied by a Farm Share Harvest Slaw to a summery Roasted Hatch Chili Pizza with Corn and Oaxaca with a Melon, Cucumber and Mint Salad. And then make your pizza night complete with one of a few simple desserts (Loaf Pan Tiramisu, One-Bowl Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake). Pizza Night serves up a year's worth of delicious, inspired, and satisfying pizzas and salads. Make pizza night a weekly tradition with these 52 seasonal pizzas paired with salads for a complete meal-from the award-winning author of Bread Toast Crumbs and creator of the popular blog Alexandra's Kitchen. Making great pizza isn't complicated. Whether you're using a kitchen oven, a grill, or an outdoor pizza oven, it all starts with the dough. In Pizza Night, Alexandra Stafford presents four simple doughs-thin-crust, pan, Neapolitan-style, and gluten-free (plus sourdough variations)-and easy techniques for perfecting your crust. From there, you can create a variety of delicious pizzas, including Detroit-Style Pizza for a Crowd, Classic Margherita Pizza, and Winter White Pizza with Garlic and Herbs. You can make it the same day or ahead; make it extra cheesy and decadent or go the healthy road-pizza-making easily adapts to busy schedules and tastes and requires little in special equipment. Arranged seasonally, each pizza is paired with a salad, from a springtime Salami and Red Onion Pizza with Calabrian Chiles and Hot Honey served with an Arugula Salad with Prosciutto and Parmesan, to a fall Broccoli Rabe and Smoked Mozzarella Pizza accompanied by a Farm Share Harvest Slaw to a summery Roasted Hatch Chili Pizza with Corn and Oaxaca with a Melon, Cucumber and Mint Salad. To end your meal on a sweet note, there are also a handful of simple desserts to choose from (Loaf Pan Tiramisu, One-Bowl Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake). Pizza Night serves up a year's worth of delicious, inspired, and satisfying pizzas and salads.

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In Pizza Night, Alexandra makes a strong case for enjoying pizza every week of the yearand who wouldn't want to live that life With her dependable dough recipes, innovative and seasonal toppings, and nourishing salads, you'll never be left wondering if you can make pizza this week, only that you should.Maurizio Leo, baker and author of the James Beard Awardwinning The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More

This gorgeous book is, of course, for anyone who craves excellent homemade pizza (Hot Italian Sausage and Giardiniera Pizza with Mozzarella! Roasted Wild Mushroom Pizza with Garlic, Thyme, and Fontina! Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza with Scallion Crme Frache!), but its also for anyone who wants to be intentional about rituals and memory-making and doesnt know where to start. I dare you to flip through Alis easy-to-follow, farm-fresh recipes and not feel inspired to plan your first pizza night immediately.Jenny Rosenstrach, bestselling author of Dinner: A Love Story and The Weekday Vegetarians

At last! The perfect casual meal finally has a cookbook worthy of its elemental splendors. Alis lifelong love of a good pie and reverence for its special place in our lives shines in recipe after recipe. As if that alone were not enough, she also matches each pizza (one for every week of the year) with a fabulous, alluring, seasonal saladmany of which are worthy of their own meals.Emily Nunn, author of The Comfort Food Diaries and creator of the Department of Salad

Readers of Pizza Night are going to have difficulty deciding which pizzas to make, because they all sound (and look) amazing. The helpful picturesespecially when it comes to dough stretchingare invaluable. And so many styles! Roman, Neapolitan, Detroit . . . its all here, giving any pizza lover an excuse to whip up a pie (or three) any time of the year.Steve Dolinsky, the Food Guy on NBC Chicago and host of the Pizza City podcast

This bookIm loving it! Pizza is just one of those foods that I cannot get enough of. Pizza Night is filled with brilliant combinations for pizza and the salads are off the charts! This book will have you enjoying pizzas through all four seasons.Well done, Ali!Andris Lagsdin, creator of the Original Baking Steel and author of Baking with Steel

Author Bio

Alexandra Stafford graduated from Yale and moved to Philadelphia, where she attended cooking school and worked in professional kitchens. After two years at the acclaimed restaurant Fork, she left to start her blog, Alexandra's Kitchen, which won a Saveur Blog Award for Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners. Her first cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, was nominated for the IACP Julia Child First Book Award. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and four children.