Strawberry Bacon Pizza with Goat Cheese

My husband and I are very honest with one another.  Honesty is very important in our marriage.  I think honesty is important in most marriages but the kind of honesty we share might be different from the average relationship.

Most men learn in the course of their marriages that some statements are just better left unsaid (remember when your body was hot before we had kids?  You just have a knack for doing laundry – is that because you are a woman?).

I prefer all things be said.   Some call that ‘brutal honesty’ but I just call it normal.

So I reminded my husband that pushups were a good way to keep his pecs in shape.

And my feelings weren’t at all hurt when the Omnivore admitted to me last week that my dinners have been on the low end of the bell curve when it comes to interest and flavor.  It wasn’t news to me: I’d been eating the meals, too!  I’d been depending on my pantry, slacking in true meal planning, making large batches of things to be reheated multiple times throughout the week, and just plain on my C game.  I was busy.  Hey, at least we were eating.

He’s a lucky guy because I started pulling recipes that were sure to rock his world.  One of those was this pizza.  We live in a land of strawberry fields.  I jog by acres and acres of berries and just smell the sweet scent the entire time.  My running partners were talking strawberry shortcake this past Saturday morning but I was thinking strawberry pizza.  With bacon.  And goat cheese.

I made this pizza with guidance from three recipes I’d recently seen that combined goat cheese and strawberries:
Roasted Strawberry Crostini with Basil and Goat Cheese 
Balsamic Strawberry and Goat Cheese Flatbread
Strawberry Balsamic Bacon Pizza

I picked aspects from eating that I was drawn to and the result made the Omnivore forget that there was ever such thing as a dinner rut.  He even went back for seconds, which he doesn’t do since he generally needs to save room for dessert.  Also, when he awoke the next day and saw the leftovers in the fridge, he immediately ‘called’ them for his lunch.  Winner!

Strawberry Goat Cheese Pizza with Bacon

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