Fire up the grill - for Pizza?

Who doesn’t love pizza? Well, except for my youngest who only likes melted cheese and no sauce, I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t like pizza. In the summer, it’s more fun to cook outside on the grill than to heat up an oven and be stuck inside. Enter a new cookbook that will save the day: Grilled Pizzas and Piadinas!

This cookbook not only has beautiful pictures of the finished dish, but step-by-step pictures that help ensure that you are preparing each pizza or piadena to perfection. The Author, Craig Priebe, gives excellent instruction on making the pizza dough and grilling it. I found it to be really helpful since I have not grilled pizza before, or made dough at home. I referred to the pictures several times to make sure I was rolling out the dough correctly and to know what to look for when the crust was ready to flip on the grill. When you are ready to begin grilling, you should have all your toppings ready and waiting near the grill.

The crust is starting to bubble and will soon be ready to "flip".

There are tons of pizza topping variations and recipes in this cookbook. The book does have a recommended list of toppings that work well together, and I ended up using that as my guide for our first pizzas. I wanted to use ingredients I had on hand already. So, in addition to a simple cheese pizza, we also had one that had bits of pesto, mushrooms, black olives, cheese and marinara sauce on it. It was so nice and crispy, just the way we like it. I'll be making many more recipes from this cookbook as the summer months get here.