If you’ve never done it, now’s the time to make some homemade pizza. I’m talking about today, people. It’s insanely easy!

Its especially easy if you get frozen or refrigerated pizza dough- then you can make a pizza anytime and avoid the super-greasy take-out variety. Pizza, by nature, is a versatile meal, and you can choose whatever cheeses and toppings you like best. I really enjoyed this recipe though- delicious roasted garlic, savory bacon, and bubbling cheese.

Roasted Garlic and Spinach White Pizza
(adapted from Rachael Ray’s latest mag)

1 head of garlic, separated into cloves, but unpeeled
olive oil
salt and pepper
12-16oz refrigerated or frozen pizza dough, thawed (or make your own, I’m planning on it soon!)
1 bag of fresh spinach (big bag, small bag, as much as you want)
3-4 slices bacon (or more, if you want more protein!)
1 cup ricotta cheese (I used reduced fat, it worked well)
3/4-1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded (I used part-skim, again, worked great)

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place unpeeled garlic cloves in foil. Cover with olive oil, salt and pepper. Seal foil, and roast garlic for 30-35 minutes.

2. Remove pizza dough from packaging. Cover a baking sheet with cooking spray or olive oil. Stretch dough to fit the baking sheet, let stand. Stretch again before adding toppings.

3. While garlic is roasting, cook bacon until crisp. Drain on a paper towel, cool and crumble. Set aside. Remove the bacon fat from the pan, or use to wilt the spinach.

4. Place spinach in fry pan with bacon fat or olive oil. Cook until wilted. Remove from pan and drain of any excess water.

5. Remove garlic from oven. Let cool. Reduce oven heat to 350. Squeeze garlic from cloves into a small bowl. Mix with a few tablespoons of olive oil to form a paste. Spread paste on pizza dough. Top pizza with spinach, then dollops of ricotta, then bacon, then mozzarella cheese. Season with salt and pepper.

6. Bake pizza at 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes. Switch to the broiler for about 3 minutes to brown the cheese. Remove, cut into pieces, serve and enjoy!