Pizza with Prosciutto and Goat Cheese

I love to make homemade pizza - it is relatively easy, and extremely delicious!

Thanks to Lisa, I found a secret ingredient that really makes the pizza: Don Pepino's pizza sauce. It tastes fresh, is flavorful, and just all around adds a little something extra to the pizza. It comes in this cool vintage-looking can:

My other secret ingredient is goat cheese. I am absolutely obsessed with the stuff, and for good reason. I use it along with mozzarella, and it adds a creamy texture, and a unique flavor to the pizza. The Trader Joe's brand is especially wonderful, as it is not too strong or overpowering:

For this particular pizza, I decided to use prosciutto as the meat. I'm almost as obsessed with prosciuttio as I am with goat cheese, but not quite as much. Sometimes I use sausage for the meat, and sometimes pepperoni. It would probably be good with all of the meats combined, too!

I also decided to use caramelized sweet onions, so I sliced up an onion, and sauteed it over medium-high heat until...

... it looked like this:

The below gallery shows the progression of my pizza from dough (I used Trader Joe's pizza dough) to finished product. I do not have a pizza stone, but I find it to be helpful to put the pan that I use to cook the pizza into the oven while it preheats so that the pan gets really hot, and the crust will cook a little while I am assembling the pizza on top of it. I set my oven to 450 degrees, and it took about 15 minutes for the pizza to bake.

Look at that yummy goat cheese:

So delicious!

We ate the whole pizza in one sitting...

...AND we were lucky enough to pair it with Trader Joe's Vintage Ale, which was an excellent choice!

It went really well with the pizza.

I'm not usually one for dark beers, but this one wasn't too heavy or strong. It was Belgian-style, and honestly, I thought it smelled exactly like Blue Moon. It also tasted similar, but had more complex flavors. If there is a Trader Joe's near you, give it a try! Cheers!