Sometimes the veggies you get from the farm share aren't . . . perfect looking. Sometimes they are knobby, misshapen, tiny, weird (carrot pants!). And that's ok. They still taste fine. I'd had an idea to try sweet potato fries with our meal, but these were the remaining sweet potatoes I'd gotten from the farm share. Not really idea for cutting into fairly uniform slices so they'd bake evenly. Instead, I cubed them up, added oil, salt, and pepper, and roasted them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15-20 minutes. Faster than I was expecting.
Then I went to pick up my farm share and got another batch of sweet potatoes. These were fat and sassy and perfect for the fries I wanted to make. So I had leftover roasted sweet potato cubes, and you know what that means: PIZZA!
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I was inspired by the sweet potato and feta combination I saw
here, but also dithering about feta vs goat cheese, what type of sauce, additional vegetables, yada yada. So I opted to make 2 pizzas, like I did with the fresh pear and goat cheese combo. But the sweet potato pizzas were similar enough, and not OMG FREAKING AMAZING like the
tomato pesto pizza I'd made the week before (yes, the post will come up, but tomatoes are
not seasonal to me now so it just feels wrong to titillate you when you may not be able to access fresh delicious tomatoes. You'll thank me. Maybe?).
So I've decided to post them both, and to invite you dear readers to try this at home, with your leftover Thanksgiving sweet potatoes, and see if you can come up with something with a little more oomph than my pizzas had. Because while these pizzas were fine, and the entire family ate them, they needed some
sisu. Some
chutzpah. A certain
je ne sais quoi. Something was missing. My spouse says bacon. It's his answer to everything. Unfortunately I used the last of the bacon in a
Chicken Cider Stew and he'll have to wait until I remember to thaw and bake some.
That said, on to the pizzas. **But please check out the update at the end! There's hope!**