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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CC1HVHSW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (April 16, 2024)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 16, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 148783 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0D3M89P7L
Reviewer: LDaley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Terrific to cook from, delicious to eat from, entertaining to read!
Review: In her fab new cookbook, Pizza Night, Ali Stafford makes homemade pizza accessible, delicious, and easy, even for non-cook. She did the same for bread with her previous book. She also brings a personal touch to every page - sharing stories, tips, suggestions to readers (e.g., "if you're serving this one to a meat lover, a layer of salami above the creme fraiche works well here"). It's as if you're talking with a dear friend and a real pleasure to read, even before you dive into making any pizza or salad.In Pizza Night, she teaches you to craft amazing pizza, with a basic home oven, and offers a few tools if you're so-inclined. She also offers great tips and insight into working with a pizza oven, for those lucky to have them, and even your grill.The book offers 1 pizza and 1 salad recipe for every week of the year, organized by season. It ends on a sweet note - 5 classic dessert recipes to top off dinner. I love that she offers several options for the dough (including a gluten-free option which, if it's as good as her GF bread recipes, will be amazing) and many for sauces. I've been a sourdough pizza person for years - she's tempted me to try yeast-based and it was terrific (see photo - my attempt at her Asparagus Pizza).Stafford condenses her years of research and experimentation into exactly what you need to know about equipment, techniques, sources for ingredients, and details on working with yeast doughs. Her explanations are clear, infused with humor and personality, and accompanied by mouth-watering photos. A few I can't wait to try: Ratatouille Pizza with Goat Cheese and Basil, Bufalina's Shrimp Pizza with Roasted Lemon Salsa, Roasted Artichoke Pizza with Olives and Ricotta. And that's just the salads. The Asparagus Pizza I made was delicious - I tweaked it by adding bits of chive, but I think it would have been better had I just followed her recipe.The author brings her joy for all things pizza to life in this book and I'm grateful she's put it all down in a single resource for those of us without the time but with similar interest in making fantastic pizza at home!

Reviewer: Julie Majors
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nerdy details & doable! beautiful + confidence giving
Review: Alexandra shows us exactly how to portion time and energy for pizza success. This is the pizza book that will unlock your frustrations from failures. She understands the science of details and shares what's important: when it's important and giving margin for the home cook can't do exactly what is "perfect."Do you have 3 days or 3 hours to make the dough? Instant or active dry yeast? Cast iron (& other pans, benefits of each) indoors or outdoor pizza oven? She's got you.She explains the nitty gritty like the time it takes to get to the exact temperature of the outdoor oven and how long pizzas should be in there before you turn it with a long handled, small paddle while extending grace if you don't have all the right accouterments and sharing possible alternatives.All the explaining isn't clunky. It's just what I need to understand and succeed.She is a long time connoisseur of pizza but not just for the sake of becoming an internet expert. Her genuine enjoyment of good, seasonal food is evident. She shares the wisdom she's gained from cooking school and professional kitchens as well as being a busy mom of 4 (maybe my fav). She understands how the humidity of the south profoundly impacts the dough differently than in Phoenix and suggests specific tweaks.The book has beautiful photography and lays flat!Measurements are in metric and English.Highly recommend following her blog for other recipes. I've been reading food blogs for 18+ years and hers is my #1 fav. I could blather longer. Just buy the book.

Reviewer: Mary
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pizza Night! Pizza Night!
Review: This is such a beautifully researched book resulting in wonderful doughs that are not at all difficult to make. You just need to plan, but even there, Alexandra gives you options for the amount of time you have, the oven you have, the ingredients, and even the equipment. However, using a pizza STEEL as she suggests is the one essential item that miraculously transformed my pizza efforts in the home oven. This is what I also love about the book: Alexandra suggests the equipment that works best, but allows for budgetary restraints. Her tone is always encouraging and the book is instructive and sometimes scientific but without being daunting. I suggest looking up her blog alexandracooks.com and videos. The toppings use seasonal ingredients and range from traditional to fun inventive combinations. One favorite is the kale pizza with sizzling scallions. And the salads! 52 of them! This is a book to enjoy for the salads alone. Right now in summer, I'm loving "My Mother's Horiatiki Salad."And the desserts! The lemon ricotta cake has become a favorite for any night. It's made in one bowl (my 8 year old granddaughter can make it) and lasts a week except it's always gone before that. I gave this as a gift to a gluten-free friend, and she was delighted with the gluten-free dough. There's something so satisfying about making a pizza with your own dough and pizza itself is both festive, fancy, and simple all at once.

Reviewer: Sally Summerdress
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Totally delicious & doable pizza
Review: I am a long-time fan of Ali Stafford's blog and have been looking forward to her new pizza cookbook! While her blog is a wealth of awesome recipes, I highly recommend this cookbook in addition to all her free recipes. It is a given that the recipes are fantastically delicious and well-written, but Pizza Night lays out all the options (dough, pizza type, sauce, etc.) in an easy to grasp way.My favorite part about this book is how it lays open on the counter so nicely and how it feels so hefty and substantial when you hold it. I was so pleased when I first opened it up! Gorgeous photos throughout too!Also for vegans or people who feed vegans...most of these recipes can be easily made vegan if you use a vegan cheese or omit the cheese! Very adaptable for us vegans!

Reviewer: Brent Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: All the recipes in this cookbook are so good. Hard to choose which recipe to make next.

Reviewer: Mediha nur serdar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It arrived in Turkey quickly and intact. thanks. it has so tasty pizzas recipes inside

Reviewer: MissMew
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beautiful book with great recipes. Made my first batch of Neopolitanish dough last Wednesday and we had a pizza on Friday. It was the best pizza I've ever made! The crust was delicious and Alexandra's instructions regarding baking the pizza in a home oven were absolutely on point. Look forward to trying many more recipes from this fabulous book.

Reviewer: LoveToBake
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Alexandra is a gem who has taught me so much via her website. She simplified baking bread for me years ago via her peasant bread recipe and has since educated so many of us with her kind and gentle instructions via her website and Instagram. Her first book “bread, toast, crumbs” is a favourite at our house. This new book has already yielded several delicious items in the salad and dessert section and my pizza dough is waiting in the fridge to be turned into pizza on Friday night.

Reviewer: Alan McKnight
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Love everything Alexandra does! Her Instagram page is also awesome.Have already made 8 pizzas for friends and family