Dinner of the day: Pizza

There is nothing greater than pizza night. Usually I spend a good hour or more cooking dinner. I try to make everything from scratch, right down to the bread, and in one case, homemade butter. What a pain, but so worth it. However, pizza night is the night that I splurge and tend to buy things pre-jarred and pre-shredded. It's like a vacation, except more delicious.
So tonight, the "dinner of the day" is fishy pizza! I have mixed feelings about fish. On one hand, I cant stand what we have done to destroy our oceans, and on the other hand, fish is yummy. So if you want to compromise I'd say stay away from overfished varieties, those with high levels of mercury, and fish caught using environmentally destructive practices. Tuna...how I miss you.
Here's how I did it:

Gather your ingredients. For this pizza they are:

- 2 to 6 oz of shredded mozzarella (depends on how much cheese you like)

- Fresh Wild Alaskan Salmon, or canned pink salmon, or anchovies!

- 2 oz of button mushrooms or crimini, sliced

- Ripe tomato sliced thin

- salt and pepper to taste

- tomato sauce, from a jar or use recipe below

- pizza dough. My favorite is to buy a refrigerated ball of dough that they make right at the health food store. You must let it get to room temperature before you try to work with it. Its quicker than making it yourself, but tastes much better than buying packaged crusts. To increase level of fun, please make an effort to twirl it in the air at least once.  Click here to see how pizza twirling is done!

Is this the Worlds greatest pizza twirler?

Tomato sauce recipe:

Mix together- 1 can of tomato puree (or fresh Roma tomatoes, diced and cooked down), 3+ tbs dried oregano and basil, salt and pepper to taste, 2 cloves minced garlic or 2 tsp garlic powder, 3 tsp onion powder or 1/2 fresh onion diced.

Lightly flour your clean kitchen counter. Work your dough out onto it and flip it a few times in the air or use your hands or a rolling pin to work it into a circle. Grease a baking sheet or pizza pan and gently transfer your dough to it, working the edges into a thick or thin crust depending on your preferences.

Using a spoon, add your tomato sauce to the middle of the pizza and work it around until its even.

Add the tomato slices, then flake the salmon and spread it evenly over the pizza. Add the mushroom slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and whatever other spices you like. Then add the cheese.  Bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees for a little under 20 minutes. If you are like me and are afraid of the extra mozzarella and sauce going bad in your fridge, find whatever other roasting vegetables you have lying around (we had asparagus), throw them into a glass baking dish with some olive oil, the tomato sauce, and cheese, and cook them with the pizza. Here's what you get!