Inspiration from a comet

One of my favorite things to do is to go to really good restaurants enjoy their food and then go home and learn how to make what I just ate. Recently, i have been enjoying a little pizza joint in upper northwest dc - comet pizza in Van Ness right next to Politics and prose. Aside from this location being a bit in the middle of no where, it has a special place in my heart- I used to live in a basement right behind Comet ( which previously was a nondescript thai restaurant) and outside my basement door was a colony of 50 turtles that my landlady collected. Additionally, the sign for comet is from another old neighborhood of mine- the comet wine shop in adams morgan. With a combination of turtles and a really cool sign, before i even stepped foot into comet I knew that I would love it. Then I walked in and noticed that the whole place is decorated with a ping pong motif. Ping pong tables, lights that look like ping pong balls, and the best part- the bathrooms, where aliens play ping pong in an idilic english country setting.

That is not to mention the good pizza. So on new years day a friend and I ventured to Van Ness and shared two personal sized pizzas. A whole carafe of wine and a broken wine glass later comet inspired us to make our very own green bean pizza.

So last night we whipped up our own comet inspired green bean pizza:

1.) Prepare a white sauce (butter, garlic cream, flour thyme and salt and pepper)

2) spread on pizza dough

3) Blanch green beans

4) Toast hazlenuts

5) carmelize onions

6) add all on top of pizza

7) finish off with mozerrella cheese and feta

YUM!We also made a second pizza:

1) red sauce, Tomatoes, garlic, onion and italian herbs (put through the food mill)

2) slices of fresh tomatoes

3) Mozerrella

4) mounds of bacon

A pizza extravoganza inspired by comet!