Bacon & Spinach Pizza

Last night for dinner I got a little more creative with my homemade pizza than just the regular mozzarella, tomato sauce & pepperoni. Don't get me wrong, we love that stuff! It's just that I didn't have any of those ingredients on hand BUT I had lots of bacon :)

So, here is the ingredient list and method...

Ingredients:

• 5 slices of bacon
• 2 cups raw spinach
• 1/2 white or yellow onion (finely chopped)
• 1 medium tomato (diced)
• 4 basil leaves finely chopped
• 3/4 cup of Trader Joe's Quattro Formaggi (or any other four cheese blend)
• Garlic infused olive oil (OR make your own by mixing some 1 clove pressed garlic in a bowl with about 2 tbsp olive oil) 

Method:

• If using a pizza stone, place it in a cool oven and pre-heat oven and stone to 350 degrees
• sautee bacon in a frying pan on med-high heat until cooked through and crispy. Set aside on paper towels to cool. Turn heat down to medium.
• drain most of the bacon grease from the pan, but reserve about 3 tbsp of it in the pan. 
• Add chopped onions to frying pan and bacon grease. once onions begin cooking and have started "sweating" add the raw spinach. Cover and let cook for about 8 minutes.
• Once pre-heated, remove pizza stone from oven
• Place your already rolled out dough on pizza stone and brush with the garlic olive oil
• sprinkle about 2 tbsp of quattro formaggi cheese on dough as the base layer
• add died tomatoes and chopped basil leaves as the next layer
• spinach and onions should be cooked - onion will have a transparent look and spinach will be wilted. Add spinach/onion mixture as the third layer of your pizza.
• Crumble bacon over pizza in an even layer. 
• Add the remaining cheese as the top layer...completely covering all other ingredients.
• Place pizza in oven on 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until crust is the consistency you like it.

Enjoy!!!

(this is not the actual pizza I made - we ate it too fast - BUT it looked very similar)