Butternut Squash Sage Pizza

I started this post last week.

Before I had even made the pizza.  Really.

Back then, this pizza was just a wonderful dream I had brewing in my mind.  There were pillows of dough, velvety butternut squash, mounds of melty cheese, and perfectly crispy sage leaves in this dream.  There was no bad language, burnt fingertips or frustration involved.

Yeah, what a dream that turned out to be.

Here’s a true story: I put too much pressure on myself.  So when my beautiful pizza dream turned into a sticky misshapen disaster, I basically turned into the queen of negativity.  The queen of negativity with tourettes.

I got a pizza stone and a pizza peel for Easter.  Needless to say, we could not get that dough from the peel to the stone to save our lives.  At the time, all I was envisioning was all the pizza toppings toppling into the bottom on the oven and the dough getting smushed into a big topping-less mound on the pizza stone.

It didn’t happen, but when you’ve gone all negative, you imagine the worst.  It’s a talent I have.

So yeah, this wasn’t the shape I had in mind when I dreamt up this pizza and yeah, being that close to the oven for as long as it took to finally get the dough from the peel to the stone wasn’t exactly pleasant, but in the whole scheme of things, is a misshapen pizza really the end of the world?  Absolutely not!

And here’s the best part.  I was mostly upset, because I thought writing a post about this pizza had completely flown out the window, until someone very wise, told me I could totally still write about the pizza.  And that it would be ten times better than posting some award-winning recipe because it would be funny, and real, and completely honest.

I love that wise person.

And misshapen or not, we ate the whole damn thing.