Marinated Lamb Pizza with Oven-Roasted Tomato Sauce and Yogurt Dressing

It's recipes like these that really help to transform the average weekday "pizza night" into something spectacular. What Katie Ate features a couple of truly delectable-looking pizza recipes that I've been dying to try since I got my hands on the cookbook; and this one in particular really leaped out at me. I mean, what's not to like about this amazing combination of ingredients? Marinaded lamb? Mint yogurt sauce? Oven roasted tomatoes? Salty feta cheese? Crunchy hot chiles and nutty almonds? Best of all, the recipe makes individual pizzas so you don't have to bother about sharing your portion with someone else.

Lamb Kofta b'siniyah

Let's face it. Anyone and their great Aunt Sally can grab some Brie, grab a baguette, hack it up, bring it to a party and call it good. And it's as equally true that the guy who brings brie is usually a pretty popular guy (especially in my family). But there are some occasions when the urge arises to go a little above and beyond the cheese-plate call of duty. Here is a recipe for one of those occasions. 

Because everyone loves the meatball guy.

Lamb and Dried Apricot Tagine

If I had the chance to meet any living chef, Dorie Greenspan would definitely be in my top five. For one thing, the woman makes a mean cookie. And two, she's adorable. Her lovely book, Around My French Table, time and time again has provided me with warm, flavorful, oftentimes very inexpensive sustenance. Her writing is charming; to read her musings on life as an American in Paris is to feel oneself go wandering out the door and out onto the Champs-Élysées.