Freedom Pizza

Ingredients:

Pizza dough

1 bottle of obscenely expensive French wine

Olive oil

Butter

Parsley

Garlic

Fancy mushrooms

Shallots

Snails

Brie, Camembert, Raclette or other good French cheese, whichever you like

Truffle salt

Preheat oven (with pizza stone!) 475F

Purée a good amount of room temperature butter, a clove or three of garlic, salt, pepper and a large handful parsley with an immersion blender and set aside. (make a lot of the parsley butter, it freezes well and has many uses.)

Sauté some minced shallots and finely chopped mushrooms in a little oil and butter, deglaze with a splash of wine, add a spoonful of parsley butter and set aside.

Drink remainder of wine.

Dust a large board of pizza peel with cornmeal. Roll, toss or stretch dough into a large thin disk and spread mushroom mixture evenly on top. Smear each snail with parsley butter and arrange on pizza in between chunks of cheese. Slide into oven and bake until golden and bubbly, about 14 minutes. Sprinkle with truffle salt before serving.

- Adam