Cookies and The Beach

I love homemade pizza and this
was the perfect summer is almost over pizza (I can feel fall in the air and it makes me happy).  There are so many fun and delicious ways to eat a pizza.  Here are some of our favorites (it was hard too choose).  Todd's-grilled vegetable or corn, bacon and leek. Mine-grilled vegetable or zucchini and ricotta.  Noah's-tomato basil or corn, bacon and leek.  Preston's-corn, bacon, and leek and Stella's-tomato basil.  How do you eat your pizza?

Grilled
Vegetable Pizza

Favorite
Pizza Dough

Tomato
sauce



1 orange bell
pepper, seeded and quartered



1 small
zucchini, sliced 1/8-in-thick



1 small yellow
squash, sliced 1/8-in-thick



1 small red
onion, cut into wedges



Olive oil



Fresh
mozzerella, torn into pieces



Kosher salt



Red pepper
flakes

Place
pizza stone on bottom rack of the oven (if you
have one). Preheat oven to 500 (or the ovens highest temperature).

Heat grill to
medium-high heat. Lightly coat all the vegetables with olive oil and season
with kosher salt. Arrange vegetables on grill rack coated with cooking spray,
and grill until crisp-tender and grill marks appear. (If you don't want your
onions falling through the grill rack like mine did, put the onion wedges on a
skewer before grilling). Remove vegetables from grill. Coarsely chop bell
pepper.

Shape pizza dough into desired
shape and place on a flour and cornmeal dusted cookie sheet that has been flipped upside down.
Very quickly slide the pizza from the cookie sheet to the pizza stone (if you
don't have a pizza stone, place cookie sheet (with pizza on it) on the bottom
rack of the oven). Bake pizza dough for 4 minutes. Remove partially baked crust
from oven. Spread a thin layer of tomato sauce on the crust followed zucchini,
squash, peppers and onions. Top pizza with torn pieces of fresh mozzarella and
a good sprinkle of kosher salt and red pepper flakes. Carefully return pizza to
pizza stone. Bake until pizza crust is golden and the cheese is melted
goodness. Remove from oven and serve with additional red pepper flakes and
kosher salt.