Cooking In, Quick PostKerry Alaric CheeseboroMarch 19, 2012baked, Calabrese, cheese, Cooking In, dough, ham, Idaho, mustard, olive oil, Parmesan, pastry, pizza, pork, potato, potatoes, puff pastry, Quick Post, rosemary, savory, shredded, slices, tartComment

Not Just Another Puff Piece

PUFF PASTRY PIZZA | Calabrese Ham, Sliced Potatoes, Mustard, Rosemary, and Shredded Parmesan

AS WHEN I LAST MADE a puff pastry pizza most recently, friends always ask if the price of groceries is worth the dishes that I make from them. That pizza, for example, cost a little over forty bucks for the puff pastry dough, four cheeses, and white truffle oil (itself almost a third of the expenses). I always have to remind them that it is worth the cost because a often don'y go through all the ingredients for just one dish.

The raw puff pastry comes two to a box—and I only used one for last week's pizza—and so with some extra finely thin slices of richly textured and flavored Calabrese ham, some mustard and dried rosemary, a pinch of shreddings from the large remainder of a parmesan block I still had, and with only the cost of one mere potato, I was able to put these ingredients all together into something that was tasty, fun, layered with flavors and textures, and filling without being heavy. Wish you were here...! ;)