This pizza can be made with or without the sausage and it will taste great. We are using goat, parmesan and asiago cheese or any combination you like. This is a white pizza, no tomato sauce this time. We’ll wait for the summer abundance of tomatoes and then make a fresh sauce for our pizza.

Ingredients

• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 1 bunch Red Russian Kale, washed stem and spine removed
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 sausage links
• ½ log or more Goat Cheese
• Freshly grated parmesan
• Freshly grated pecorino or asiago

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 475. Place rack in middle of oven.
2. Place thawed dough in a bowl coated with olive oil in a warm spot in the kitchen while you work with the toppings. Cover with a dish towel.
3. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add kale and cook for 3 – 5 minutes. Drain well. When cool enough to work with, squeeze excess water from leaves, place on cutting board and cut into bite size pieces.
4. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil and garlic in heavy large skillet over medium high heat. 1 – 2 minutes. Add kale and toss to coat well, toss and turn for 2 – 3 minutes, remove from pan. Set aside.
5. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to skillet and heat over medium high heat. Add onions and saute until tender about 5 minutes. Add a ¼ tsp salt, lower heat and sauté until onions are golden, about 30 minutes longer. Remove from skillet and set aside.
6. Pierce sausages with fork in several places. Add sausages to skillet and cook over medium high heat until sausages are well browned on all sides. (You don’t have to add any cooking oil. The sausages will cook in their own fat.) Cut sausages into ½ in rounds and cut each round in half if desired.
7. Grease cookie sheet with olive oil using a pastry brush or a paper towel. Punch down dough and roll out on lightly floured service into a rectangular shape – about 13 by 8 inches.
8. Place dough on cookie sheet and place in hot oven for just a few minutes to have it set. Remove from oven (be careful the cookie sheet will heat up very quickly)
9. Place on flat surface with kitchen towel or oven mit underneath so as not to burn service.
10. I like to place ingredients on pizza dough in rows, starting with the greens, then the onions and then the sausage semicircles. Leave a ½ inch space and then do the next set of rows until you have completely covered the dough. (You may leave a small ¾ inch border) Drop small dollops (rounded teaspoonful) of goat cheese every 1 ½ -2 inches. Sprinkle with the parmesan and asiago or pecorino, which ever you are using.
11. Drizzle a small amount of olive oil over the dressed pizza.
12. Place in oven and cook for 12 – 14 minutes, checking from time to time. You might want to leave it in a bit longer to get the crust to the desired crispness.

Serving

- Cut pizza crosswise into rectangles.
- Of course you may add other ingredients if you like: olives, mushrooms and sundried tomatoes are just a few I like to use.

Buon Appetito!