Peach Pizza

Elizabeth HaitNothing but pizza will make me happy tonight. It's been one of those weeks, busy and hectic and lots of long long stressful days.

I saw this really gorgeous peach pizza recipe featured over on slashfood.com, KitchenDaily's sister site, in their "Drool Over This" gallery, so I decided to riff off of it to make tonight -- especially since I have about a gazillion peaches right now. Did you know August was National Peach month? I didn't. But I know why! Evidence being my lovely local ripe peaches of course.

My standby pizza crust is a mix from Bob's Red Mill, but I for the life of me couldn't find a package of it in any of my cabinets. I searched twice. Then wept a little bit. And ordered a case online. I decided to go forward with my pizza-lust and followed this crust recipe instead. It was much much more work, but worth it in the end (I'm still going to make Bob's next time, but at least I know this recipe is good too).

While the pizza was rising in the warm oven, I sliced up my gorgeous peaches into large circles. I also decided to make this pizza more savory by adding a little bit of shallot and prosciutto. Sounds good, right? So good that in my excitement I forgot to pre-bake my risen crust and started adding the ricotta and peaches before I remembered. Oops. I forged ahead and added the onion slices and pieces of prosciutto, then popped it in the oven with my fingers crossed that the crust would cook fully.

I checked in on the pizza after 12 minutes, and 15 minutes. Then ate some leftover peach slices. After about 20 minutes the crust was browned to my satisfaction and the cheese was starting to bubble too.

Quite honestly, this is probably the best pizza I've ever made. The combination of the peach with the ricotta is so rich and creamy, and then the small pieces of salty prosciutto break it up perfectly-oh my goodness. I can't even tell you how much of it I've eaten already, it's too good to put down to type.

I was not looking forward to sharing this with Neel when he got home tonight. I was feeling selfish, ok! And besides, he doesn't really like eating meat so I figured he would just pass on it.

But the aroma was too much, even for him. He liked it as much as I did! Even with the non-standard crust, which he practically never eats when I make it.

Now I barely have any pizza leftover for lunch tomorrow. I guess that means that I could (and will) make this recipe again since it was such a success.

Make this peach pizza recipe.