Pizza Pizza!

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This pizza was inspired by many things, including the following:

1. Julie's individual goat cheese pizzas

2. My love for goat cheese

3. A balsamic steak and caramalized onion pizza Tiffany made a week or two ago

4. My favorite salad which is baby spinach, steak, roasted red peppers, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette

5. My love for goat cheese

There are people in this world who do not like pizza, and I just cannot understand this. There are 1809430 ways to make a pizza and, really, pizza is just amazing. I have come to the conclusion that maybe these people have only eaten pizza at Domino's or their school cafeteria. This is the only reasoning I have. They have not made their *perfect* pizza.

This pizza started out with half a package of Trader Joe's refrigerated whole wheat pizza dough. I made two flatbread-esque individual pieces from that. I prebaked the dough for about 5 minutes this time because the last couple times I have used this dough it has taken longer to crisp up than I had hoped/wanted. This worked out well.

Each pizza was topped with the following:

- 1 oz of goat cheese
- 2 Tbsp mozzarella
- some fresh herbs and ground pepper
- about half of a roasted red pepper
- 1/4 cup sliced mushrooms
- a handful of baby spinach
- 3 oz. of cooked flank steak, marinated in balsamic vinegar, a splash of soy sauce, a little olive oil, a sprig of rosemary and a couple smashed garlic cloves

We just ate this with some grape tomatoes and fresh basil drizzled with balsamic vinegar (hey, I had to get those antioxidants somewhere, since this pizza remained sauceless :)

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Apparently the lighting in my kitchen has somehow gotten worse so I apologize for the dark pics as of late.

Per serving (the ingredients above plus 2 servings of the TJ's dough): Calories: 500 Fat: 19g / Carbs: 35g / Dietary Fiber: 9g / Protein: 34g