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Happy first day of October!!
I think it is safe to say that I am pretty into fall. Lucky for us, for every season there are multiple pizzas to accompany it. Pizza is just that kind of food, an all the time, every season, kind of meal. It’s adaptable, and can be topped in more ways than I can count.
Plus, pizza cures all. Like when your mother tells you that she thinks it would be best if she worked as the General Contractor on your new home. Meaning – my mom is now overseeing everything that is going on down at the barn…
Oh yeah, did I forget to tell you guys this?
It’s probably because it freaks the heck out of me and I just do not want to admit it yet. To you, to me, to anyone.
Well, it is true, my amazing, and apparently super multi talented, mother became the general contractor a few weeks ago. At first I pretty much freaked because I mean, she knows not a thing about how to do a remodel like this or how to build a thing. But now I am ok with it. She works way harder than anyone (especially our previous contractor), so I have to trust that she’ll get it done on time. Although, I did just hear that something got pushed back a week.
Oh no. I need more pizza. This barn is going to drive me insane. Who would have thought that remodeling a small barn to be a home would be such a process. Not me. The whole Thanksgiving deadline that is pretty important that we meet? Yeah, well that has now become the first week of December and to be totally honest that will SO be pushing it. Send help. No literally, if you know good workers please send them because they seem to be a little hard to come by up in my mountain town. I think everybody is just too excited about the snow or something.
Anyway, my point is that pizza makes all the stress better. Especially when it’s a fall pizza. I think fall pizzas may just be my favorite. Actually, butternut squash is my favorite and I think that you will quickly realize this over the coming weeks. So many squash recipes flying through my head.
This pizza is all things fall, but not in an overpowering way, where you are like, “eew, this just tastes like a fall candle… and not a good one”. I have actually had that response once, not fun.
Over the years, I have made a lot of fall inspired pizzas and they all seem to have a sweet and spicy theme to them. I’m pretty sure it is because my family loves spicy… and I love the combos of sweet and spicy… plus heavy on the cheesy!
That is this Butternut Squash Pizza. It’s got a spicy oil based sauce, savory cider caramelized onions, super thin slices of apple for sweetness, tons of sharp cheddar, blue cheese, roasted butternut and bacon (of course feel free to lose the bacon and keep this a vegetarian pizza if needed) to tie it all together. What could you not like about these flavors? So flippin delicious.
Really though, look at all that gooey, melty cheese.
Maybe it is the cheese that cures all actually? Not sure, but whatever, it’s good stuff. And on a Wednesday when you just need a way to get over that hump!
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Leaning tower of cheesy pizza awesomeness right there. Dig in.
Hey Tiegan, Hope you’re doing well. So, I’ve made this dough recipe twice now and I can’t get a chewier texture of takeout pizza. My texture is drier and more crunchy biscuit like.. I live in Breck and you know altitude effects .. Please can you make any suggestions to tweak it and give me it a chewy texture? Thank you.. Emma
Thanks for trying this recipe Emma!! Is there anything you are adjusting in the recipe? Try making sure you use warm water when making the yeast…this dough recipe is super old so I have found better ways to make it by now:) You could also try the recipe on this page:
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/essentials/
I hope this helps! xT
Love your recipes, but this one wasn’t great for us. All the ingredients are liked but we didn’t like the combo of them all on this pie. Just too much
Hi Susan! I’m really sorry you didn’t enjoy this recipe! Thank you for letting me know! xT
Several years back I made this recipe exactly as it is and now I make some version of it every year and I call it Harvest Pizza. This year I used goat cheese and it was delightful! I did end up adding a little extra salt because goat cheese has significantly less salt than blue cheese, which I looked up after the fact. 🙂
This is a good one. Thanks, Tiegan!
Hey Stacey,
Love to hear that you have been making this recipe every year:) Thanks for your feedback and sharing what worked well for you! xx