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So this cheesy onion, chorizo, spinach and artichoke pizza was not meant for today, but let’s just go with it.

Cheesy Fontina Caramelized Onion, Chorizo, Spinach and Artichoke Pizza | halfbakedharvest.com @hbharvest

I mean, let’s face it, pizza is good no matter what.

See, I wanted to save this pizza (here I go saving recipes again) for next week. It’s perfect for Monday night football and I thought posting it next week would be a little better idea, seeing as football starts on the eighth… but then this whole thing involving some chocolate, an obscene amount of eggs and a little powdered sugar happened and it consumed my life for the last three days. Meaning I didn’t get to make the recipe I wanted to for today. That recipe was a tad more summery than this pizza, but… oh well, you can never really go wrong with a great pizza.

I do want to tell you that after three failed attempts I finally got the recipe I have been working on (for way too many days) right. YEAH! It’s coming soon and it is so good.

But oh my gosh, it almost killed me in the process.

Cheesy Fontina Caramelized Onion, Chorizo, Spinach and Artichoke Pizza | halfbakedharvest.com @hbharvest

Anyway, the other week I realized it had been far too long since I had made pizza. With my family being gone most of the summer, pizza just didn’t happen that much. One little person, plus too many recipes being made each day equals just a lot of food. A lot went into the freezer, but my weekly pizzas did not get made.

Well, everyone’s back and food is literally disappearing by the second. So easy homemade pizzas it is. It’s a no brainer. Everyone eats pizza. Of course I had to make one minus any of the green stuff, but at least they eat tomato sauce. Not the actual tomatoes themselves, but they’ll eat tomato sauce. Craziness.

Cheesy Fontina Caramelized Onion, Chorizo, Spinach and Artichoke Pizza | halfbakedharvest.com @hbharvest

This pizza was one of those pizzas that just happened. Pretty sure it was a Friday night and I am pretty sure I was basically just grabbing everything that was left in fridge. To be honest, this is how I used to cook. I would look at what was in the fridge, figure out what to make from there… and hope it turned out.

I am a little more planned now since I am making so much more food, but I actually love when I get to just have fun in the kitchen and not worry TOO much about how it is going to look or taste. That is when I can really be most creative. I am not as concerned about whether people will like it, if the flavors are too weird, if the recipe is too long or hard, if the colors look horrible or how the heck I am going to photograph it. I almost forget sometimes what it feels like not to cook for the blog. It is these times when I actually get the rare chance to cook just because we need dinner and it’s not already made. This is when the best recipes often happen.

It’s the whole no pressure thing. When I don’t think and I just do, things just seem to work. I mean, sometimes they turn out terrible, but most of the time they end up being some of my favorite recipes.

Cheesy Fontina Caramelized Onion, Chorizo, Spinach and Artichoke Pizza | halfbakedharvest.com @hbharvest

That is this pizza. I wasn’t sure where I was going with it at first, but then I remembered this dip and I sort of went with those flavors. Caramelized onions, chorizo, spinach and artichokes. Such a great combo.

The caramelized onions make the pizza, but really, so does the chorizo.

And umm, isn’t chorizo used in a lot of breakfast hashes and things?? See, I think it is. This means that this pizza would be amazing with a fried egg. Not gonna lie, if you add a fried egg (or two or three) you’d be my hero.

Just sayin.

Pizza plus Thursday equals good prep for Friday… and football!

Hey, and I keep hearing that Thursday is the new Friday? Is this true? Because I think I like the sound of that.