Pizza Night: Deliciously Doable Recipes for Pizza and Salad

Make pizza night a weekly tradition with these 52 seasonal pizzas paired with salads for a complete meal--from the award-winning author of Bread Toast Crumbs and creator of the popular blog Alexandra’s Kitchen.

＂I dare you to flip through Ali’s easy-to-follow, farm-fresh recipes and not feel inspired to plan your first pizza night immediately.＂--Jenny Rosenstrach, bestselling author of Dinner: A Love Story and The Weekday Vegetarians

Making great pizza isn’t complicated. Whether you’re using a kitchen oven, a grill, or an outdoor pizza oven, it all starts with the dough.

In Pizza Night, Alexandra Stafford presents four simple doughs--thin-crust, pan, Neapolitan-style, and gluten-free (plus sourdough variations)--and easy techniques for perfecting your crust. From there, you can create a variety of delicious pizzas, including Detroit-Style Pizza for a Crowd, Classic Margherita Pizza, and Winter White Pizza with Garlic and Herbs. You can make it the same day or ahead; make it extra cheesy and decadent or go the healthy road--pizza-making easily adapts to busy schedules and tastes and requires little in special equipment.

Arranged seasonally, each pizza is paired with a salad, from a springtime Salami and Red Onion Pizza with Calabrian Chiles and Hot Honey served with an Arugula Salad with Prosciutto and Parmesan, to a fall Broccoli Rabe and Smoked Mozzarella Pizza accompanied by a Farm Share Harvest Slaw to a summery Roasted Hatch Chili Pizza with Corn and Oaxaca with a Melon, Cucumber and Mint Salad. To end your meal on a sweet note, there are also a handful of simple desserts to choose from (Loaf Pan Tiramisu, One-Bowl Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake). Pizza Night serves up a year’s worth of delicious, inspired, and satisfying pizzas and salads.

Alexandra Stafford graduated from Yale and moved to Philadelphia, where sheattended cooking school and worked in professional kitchens. After two years atthe acclaimed restaurant Fork, she left to start her blog, Alexandra’s Kitchen, which won a Saveur Blog Awardfor Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners. Her first cookbook, Bread ToastCrumbs, was nominated for the IACP Julia Child First Book Award. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and four children.