Proscuitto and Basil Pizza

     Ingredients:
- Pizza dough (fresh from bakery)     -small 8 oz can of tomato sauce         - 1/2 tsp of oregano and salt    
-1 Tbsp of minced garlic     - 1 package of shredded mozzarella cheese  
- 1/2 package of goat cheese (crumbled)      - fresh cooked spinach (drained)     - fresh cut basil
- 4 slices of proscuitto   - EVOO

Preheat oven to 375.
This pizza has such great flavor and I hope you enjoy it. You are welcome to add or omit any ingredients, but the mixture of all these ingredients is heavenly. Take your pizza pan and put some oil on the bottom or if you have stone put some cornmeal on the bottom. This prevents the dough from sticking. Now the key to a good pizza is the pizza pan. Rule number one is never ever ever clean your pizza pan. You want to leave it all greasy because eventually it will become imbedded into the pan and your crust of your pizzas will become better and better. It takes a long time and many cooked pizzas get a good crust, so don't get discouraged if your crust doesn't  come out the way you want it. It takes many cooks. So back to the pizza, you want to let the dough rise for an hr or two with a small kitchen towel over it. Once its rised and spread out on your pan, put some olive oil on the dough and spread the edges with your fingers. Now pour your tomato sauce smoothly in the middle of the dough and sprinkle with oregano, salt and minced garlic. Add your cheeses, spread evenly and heavily, then your spinach, fresh basil and pieces of proscuitto.

Leave the edges of the dough free, but make sure there is plenty of oil on the edges. Put the pizza in the oven on the top rack and cook for about 15-20 minutes, more or less depending if you like a crispy or soft crust. Like the spinach pie recipe, every stove is different so keep checking the color of the crust. You want it golden brown on the edges but also with a spatula lift the pizza to see the bottom and make sure its a light gold as well.

Once its nice and gold as seen in the picture, take it out and let it cool for a good 15-20 minutes. You don't want to cut it right away cuz it needs time to settle. Also as you see in this picture I like a thick crust, that is personally up to you whether you add the ingredients right to the edge or not. Once its cooled enough, cut and serve.

Mangia :)