What to Do with Pizza Leftovers? Make Them Into Salad
Posted On: June 11, 2010 – 10:00 pm

From Slice [Photographs: Cameron Mattis] Unless you are the world’s most prescient shopper you’re likely to end up with leftover produce after making pizza at home. After staying up until 2 a.m. baking pizzas a few nights ago, I collapsed into a flour-addled coma and awoke hours later to find fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, and the juices strained from a 28-ounce can of San Marzano tomatoes regarding me reproachfully from the depths of the refrigerator. I knew there was only one course of action: salad. As a play on insalata Caprese , I reduced the tomato juice to a thick syrup and used it as the base for a tomato vinaigrette, which I then tossed with the mozzarella and basil and some pine nuts, radicchio, and roasted peppers I had on hand. The resulting salad was so good that I might be persuaded to make less pizza just to accumulate the ingredients. Well… almost. Here’s the recipe















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