PW Wednesday – Breakfast Pizza
Pizza and beer. Two things that inextricably and undeniably go together – but what if it’s a breakfast pizza? Now I don’t know about you but I was utterly conflicted on whether it was legit to enjoy a beer with breakfast food. Granted it was dinner time, breakfast for dinner, but still something about it seemed daredevilish. So, I went and had a beer like the rebel I am. *laughs at the thought of me being a rebel*
Now at the risk of sounding like an alki – I’m going to say it anyway – beer, eggs and hashbrowns on pizza is a flavor combination that can only be compared to party in your mouth. A mouth party. Animal House style. Raucous, Insane and totally a flavor combo to remember.
The girls of PW Wednesdays, Julie, Gina, Rachel, Tina and I all teamed up to make this and give you our own takes on the dish. This is the fourth of our PW Wednesdays and I think out of all of them so far, this is my favorite.
There were plenty of veggies to keep the dish colorful and fresh.
The hashbrowns on the top were crisp and felt like a Saturday morning.
One of the best tricks I learned about crisping up potatoes came to me from ATK when I made their oven fries. Cut, or in this case shredded potatoes left an abundance of starch on the outside yielding soggy, soft and dastardly results. Bleh! The key is soaking the potatoes in cold water for anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour depending on the size of the cuts. For this recipe I soaked the potatoes for about 20 minutes and changed the water three times just to make sure all the starches were washed away. As the starch settles it forms a white swirl on the bottom of the bowl. You’ll be able to see it plain as day.
The ‘taters were drained, patted dry with a handful of paper towels and then prepared as usual. Worked like a dream!! America’s Test Kitchen has never let me down.
All whilst this was going on, one recipe of PW’s Pizza Dough was fixed up and left to rise almost going The Thing on me and nearly overfilling the bowl.
Once all the ingredients were prepared and ready to go, the pizza was easy to piece together. The piece de resistance was absolutely and without question – the egg. My first introduction to egg on pizza was in DC a couple falls ago where I meandered around Georgetown taking in a few Georgetown Cupcakes (My God!), Dean and Deluca’s (The Cheese!) , and Pizza Parradiso where I sat down with a botarga pizza, a beer, a book and had the whole restaurant to myself. It was like a scene from a movie. DC and egg on pizza captivated my heart.
Needless to say, that was the what sealed the deal on this recipe.
And since this had bacon, hash, and egg on top – Hello! Look out, Megan’s comin’ through!! It was a win through and through. I highly encourage you to make this for your family. They’ll love you forever, even though they’re obligated to forever anyway – the beauties of family.
Take a peek at the other girls’ take on this pizza and see how it stacked up.
Rachel – Baked by Rachel –> Click here for the full recipe!
Tina – My Life as a Mrs.
Gina – Running to the Kitchen
Julie – Table for Two
Now this is breakfast done right! If I had this on the table in the morning, waking up at 4:45AM would never be a problem.
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Can’t wait to try this recipe. I bet this would be really great hangover food. Not like I know anything about hangovers. 😉
We need to drink with every recipe! Even though I don’t like beer, I’m jealous that you drank along with it 😉 I never thought to change out the water a few times, will have to do that in the future.
Mouth party is right. YUM!
Woah girl, look at your stringy cheese! Looks so good! Love that rising pizza dough. Totally can’t go wrong with bacon and eggs and BEER! Love the way you think 😉
This pizza looks so good, you ladies have made some excellent PW choices! I hope she’s reading these!
You can’t beat pizza + beer. This looks so amazing!
Heck… even if it was 9 am I’d want a beer with this pizza.
PS I need to find that wheat pyrex bowl.
pizza and beer were meant to be together. Breakfast pizza = amazing!
Breakfast pizza is one of my favorite things, ever. This looks amazing!
Mmmmhmmm. I could SO use a slice of this right now!
I need this in my life right now!!
This looks so wonderful and fun to make for breakfast! Great recipe choice, girls!
I had a similar recipe bookmarked by Smitten Kitchen. I would love to try this. Perfect for weekends.
So glad you posted this recipe since I can’t stop thinking about it since you instagramed it. With a beer, of course.
First off, I love that pair Sam Adams with just about anything! 😉 Second, I have not stopped talking about Pizza Paradiso since we went in DC last year… LOVE. THAT. PLACE. Third, CANNOT WAIT TILL SEATTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m loving this recipe! Pizza and beer are my favorite combo!
You have to have beer with pizza!! This pizza is amazing!
FULL of flavor and color. Looks like such a pleasure to make!!
I love breakfast inspired foods for dinner. Because I’m a rebel like that. Your pizza looks divine, Megan. And I loved the photo of the wheat bowl. Hooray! Makes me furiously happy.
This whole adventure looks mouthwatering – as you said “a party in your mouth” – what more could we ask for??
Mary x
That cheese IS superiorly stringy, I love that photo! This looks like I would make two and eat it for dinner and breakfast!
The other day, my daughter asked me why she got an x mark when her teacher asked her to color items eaten for breakfast….of course the right answers would be pancakes, cereals, bagels…you get the point. My little girl included pizza as something eaten fro breakfast, but before I am ruined for letting my daughter eat leftover pizza for breakfast, that is because she specifically asked she wanted that slice for breakfast…Her teacher should have the test paper rechecked after reading this blog. This is definitely breakfast! Thanks for sharing.
That looks pretty much amazing to me. I think when you add beer, it automatically becomes brunch, no matter what the hour. Unless it’s college. In which case, it’s extremely early day-drinking 😉
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