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When Life Gives You Tomatoes (and No Mozzarella)

So here’s the thing about buying three crates of tomatoes at once -half of them were always going to end up as marinara, frozen and tucked away in the freezer for days exactly like this. I’d already made the pizza dough. Everything was going according to plan until I realized there wasn’t a shred of mozzarella in the fridge. But when you’ve already committed to homemade pizza, there’s no turning back, you don’t just give up, you improvise. So instead, I built a different kind of pizza. Sweet caramelized onions as the base (cooked low and slow until they’re basically jam), then meaty portobello mushrooms, garlic, spinach, plenty of cracked black pepper, with just enough salt. That frozen marinara finally got its moment and tied the everything together beautifully. Stretch the dough, pile on the toppings and crank your oven as hot as it’ll go -I did mine around 450-500°F. Ten to fifteen minutes later, the crust’s puffing up at the edges, going golden, and your kitchen smells like an actual pizzeria. The real magic happens right when it comes out: a drizzle of good olive oil, some freshly grated garlic, more black pepper, some oregano, and a generous amount of Parmesan on top. Non-negotiable. Turns out you don’t need mozzarella to make a pizza that hits. This beautifully crisp homemade pizza proves you don’t always need cheese to make something deeply satisfying
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