Last week, Sharon and Brittany and I went to a pub called Armsby Abbey. We had a surprisingly fantastic pizza: ham & pear. Who would think to put those two things together? Well tonight I tried my own version of Ham & Pear Pizza.
Their description:
Applewood Smoked Ham from Green Mountain Farm (Ludlow, VT) and Crumbled Great Hill Blue Cheese (Marion, MA) topped with shaved An’Jou Pear and fresh Arugula finished with a Maple-Balsamic Reduction
My version:
Smoked Ham from Stop & Shop
Sliced Pear
Fresh Mozzarella
Organic Traditional Pasta Sauce
Honey-Balsamic Sauce
First we made the sauce:
Enough honey to cover the bottom of a mini mixing bowl (my measurements are exact!)
Top that off with balsamic… about the same amount? Maybe?
Olive oil…
Next, we prepare the pizza. I used a store bought crust. I know I know. It was already late! I’ll make my own dough from PW‘s recipe some time soon.
We cut the mozzarella as thin as we could and laid it on top of the pasta sauce.
We cut the ham into strips & the pears into slices.
The ham & pear slices went next… then we drizzled the sauce over the whole pizza.
15 minutes on 400 in the oven and we had one tasty gourmet pizza!
Goooooood dinner! It went perfectly with this week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, whose quotes are too priceless to not include in some way. If you were wondering why this post is titled as such… well, that’s why.
Looks and sounds terrific! Could probably use a soft variety of apple instead of pear also. I never would have thought of pear with tomato sauce, though.
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