Smashed Potato Pizza

As one of my favorite pizzas, it's only natural that this get more than one mention on my blog. 

I came home early enough on Monday to make the dough while my sister went running, then started prepping the potatoes that she brought back and cutting up all the salad components. This dough turned out a lot better than the one I made with the pizza. I used a different recipe that didn't call for kosher salt...and somehow, I think that made a difference. The recipe also called to split the dough in 3 parts, so now I've got two more pizza pies that I can make, just waiting in the freezer to be rolled out. Will definitely save a lot of time!

So by 8 pm, aka, when NBC's The Voice was on, I had the mashed potatoes done, and the dough was just about done rising. Then for the next hour, I was running back and forth between the kitchen and the living room between commercials to put everything together.

it's steaming up...yeast working its magic!

Potatoes w/ clothes --> NEKKED POTATOES!!!

Potatoes: CHOPPED!

Potatoes: MASHED!

With all my potato captions, I'm starting to feel like I'm a character on Super Smash Brothers...instead of Falcon - PUNCH! I'm Captain Potato! Whoa, wait, lightbulb moment! If I were ever to be a super hero, I am totally claiming CAPTAIN POTATO!

Cheese & Tomatoes

Summary of all things complete before 8 pm

And here begins the semi-hectic process where I had my sister scream for me every time the show started up again (she probably lost some of her voice after watching The Voice...[insert *hearty guffaw* here])

separated dough

Rolled out pizza dough

Mashed potatoes on pizza with red pepper flakes! (the best, I love love love red pepper flakes!)

Entering the oven...

Finally topped with the salad, cheese & bacon ranch dressing

Slice 1

Making it "artsy" for social media

With a pizza pie for only 2 people, we actually had some leftovers, which I brought in to my coworkers the next day to try to convert more people to the magical deliciousness that is mashed potato pizza. They were skeptical at first, but I won them over! And it begins...first step pizza, next...THE WORLD.

Pizza Night

Instead of braving the crowds on Black Friday - I refuse because I just don't like people that much, we ventured out for some shopping on...the Saturday after Black Friday. There's nothing better than retail therapy and three pairs of new shoes! Even better, customized pizzas at the end of the day - and as convenient as the pre-made crusts are (which we already used up between Wednesday and Thursday), I must admit, I was pretty proud of my homemade pizza dough (recipe found on cooks.com).

It started with mixing the dough:

 One hour later after letting it rise and prepping the potatoes for some mashed potatoes for some of the toppings (as inspired by the Smashed Potato Pizza @ Fuel & Fuddle in Pittsburgh):

brushed in olive oil with garlic powder

Though we all eat pretty much anything and everything, we still have our individual tastes and preferences which resulted in three different pies:

Pop's pizza pre-bake

Tomato Sauce, Anchovies, Olives, Basil, Mozzarella Cheese

Sister's pizza pre-bake

Tomato Sauce, Mushrooms, Basil, Mozzarella & Asiago Cheese, Spinach, Olives, Mashed Potatoes

My pizza pre-bake (somehow ended up looking like Taiwan...or a kidney bean...abstract car...or maybe abstract Africa?)

Layer of Mashed Potatoes, Asiago Cheese, Diced Tomatoes, Basil, Mushrooms, Spinach Leaves 

I erm, may, or may not have forgotten to season all the pizzas until we got around to eating the last one - sprinkled last minute with salt and red pepper flakes (my fav!), but luckily for me, the anchovies in the first one and the mix of all the ingredients in the second gave some flavor to the first two pizzas. Besides, too much sodium is no good for you anyway! Hooray for being healthy-ish!

I kind of wish it were pizza night every night...except that there are too many other foods I would miss. 

'Til next time!