Pin it & Spin it: Honey Garlic Pizza

I heart pizza.  Like, a lot.  Like I could eat it every night.  I do, however, have to show some sort of restraint so we reserve either Friday or Saturday nights to partake.  Sometimes our usual gets a little boring.  Sometimes we get all fancy and do tomato-less pizza.  I know.  Sometimes we’re a couple crazy kids here at the Cove.

I pinned this pretty pizza pic last week and salivated all week.  Friday night- I brought it to life.  And then, we ate it.

The pin: Honey Garlic Pizza, recipe courtesy of Edie from Life in Grace.

The spin:  For the crust, I watched this video/recipe for inspiration.  I rarely use the same pizza dough recipe {unless I’m using our normal recipe that makes for a super deep-dish, bready pizza.  We’ve been super bored with it lately and have wanted to branch out}.  It was a hit.  We really liked the crust-much more pizza-like rather than bread-like.

Also-we had a minor grilling catastrophe.  I had forgotten that my pizza stone broke awhile ago so I went ahead covered the grill with tin foil, oiled it, and then sprinkled corn meal before I placed the pizza dough on it.   Big mistake.  The pizza cooked way too quickly and burned the bottom in spots.  Luckily I was able to salvage it by getting it off the grill and into the oven.

The verdict: Magic happens in the baking process, I’m sure of it. I was SO leery about honey on pizza.  But, it works.  It really does. It sort of seeps down through the cheese and marinates the garlic as it roasts atop the crust.  It’s pizza poetry, you guys.  I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I had to make this again on Sunday {less cheese this time-have to watch the figure, eh?}.

This will definitely be put into our weekend pizza rotations.  Let me know if you decide to give it a try!