White Pizza with Roma Tomatoes

Last week I was unexpectedly told I could work from home on Thursday and Friday, which was not only awesome for its own sake, but because it allowed me to hibernate in front of our living room window unit instead of venturing outside into the blistering sun, which has the potential to scorch the very skin off my bones in about 1 minute flat.

So Thursday and Friday, I booted up our old Compaq laptop (the one that the burglars in January took out of the case and then–hah hah–did not deign to take), logged into my remote desktop, and set up a little station right in front of the air conditioner with: my coffee. The laptop (incidentally, still covered in fingerprinting dust from the detective). My work cell phone. My coconut Greek yogurt (divine). A big glass of water. Two cereal bars. An old, battered copy of Jane Eyre. What ensued were delightfully peaceful mornings and afternoons, with my attention riveted on the passionate dialogues between Jane and Mr. Rochester and the chilling relationship between Jane and the inexorable St John Rivers, with the occasional distraction of answering my cell phone to set up a delivery appointment for a shipment of citric acid, sending an order confirmation to a customer in South America, or getting a transportation quote for a customer Stateside, or going back and forth about a mysterious wire transfer that a customer claims to have sent but we never received. And then–back to the plights of Jane as her will is tried and bent under the stern command of St John Rivers!

Aaaaah. Life is good.

The downside of this break in routine–I got a little lazy with my blogging. Thankfully I had this recipe hanging around in my drafts, and it’s the perfect follow-up to Erica’s pizza crust recipe from last week. So it’s all coming together after all, despite my neglectful 4th of July ways!

I love the simplicity of this lil’ white pizza. It’s not up my husband’s alley, so I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it all to myself. Mmmmm!

My sister Erica called me up and pretty much commanded me to make it. I’m so glad that after a bossy start in my career as a sister, I have learned to listen to the Blonde One when it comes to culinary matters. And decorating matters. And many, many other matters.

Ingredients

(makes 1 pizza)

1 pizza crust
2 spoonfuls Alfredo sauce
2 handfuls grated cheese (mozzarella + Italian blend)
1 sprinkling grated Parmesan cheese
2 Roma tomatoes, thinly sliced

Preheat the oven to 500 F with a pizza stone inside, and shape the pizza crust on a piece of parchment paper.

Spread the Alfredo sauce on the pizza crust very thinly. I emphasize–very thinly. If not, things get a little gross. Sprinkle on the mozzarella/Italian blend, and then layer on the thin slices of tomato.

Sprinkle a little Parmesan on top of the tomatoes.

Slide the parchment paper with the pizza on top straight on to the pizza stone as soon as the oven is fully preheated.

Bake at 500 for 10-14 minutes, consume, rejoice! You could even sprinkle it with fresh basil right before eating, if that’s your thing.

Now this is my idea of a good pizza! Not a piece of pepperoni in sight.

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14 thoughts on “White Pizza with Roma Tomatoes

  1. Suzie

    Oh that pizza sounds divine. My hubs will not go for it either but, I will! Yay, for stay at home work days 🙂

  2. Sara

    Woooow that looks amaaaazing!!!!! I love Roma tomatos- the perfect combo of firmness and flavor. Maybe this will be my weekend treat! Your work-from home adventure sounds divine.

  3. Veronica

    What? You don’t love pepperoni? How can we be friends?! Well the cool thing is that despite no pepperoni, it looks like it’s covered in pepperoni. I can totally imagine the taste and I’m loving it–this sounds fabulous. Thanks, Erica and Jenna!

  4. Veronica

    P.S. You working from home reminded me I’m still waiting to hear about what will happen with work once the baby comes. Did you cover that and I missed it? Will you be working from home? That would be so nice for you!

    1. Jenna Post author

      I haven’t covered it yet! But I’m working on a post, so I should be sharing soon . . . and I think it will be a great arrangement! =)

  5. Kate

    Hi Jenna. You’ve probably found an apt. but my friends are renting a cute house at 1437 Devon (across from Devon market) for only $1500 to the right person and I thought of you. It also has a garage available. Darling, clean place for the price. Let me know if you want more details.

    1. Jenna Post author

      Thanks so much for thinking of us! We have indeed already signed a lease, put down the deposit, etc. (It’s also across from the Devon Market–upper story of a 3-flat). But I appreciate the heads up!

  6. Julie M.

    Oh yea. You would definitely be sharing this with me if I were there. Lots of cheese and alfredo sauce? That’s a perfect pie right there. 🙂

  7. Kimby

    Dont’cha love it when God knows what you need before you do? A little R & R, a little A/C, and a lot of pizza. 🙂

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