Chicken Avocado Pizza

This recipe illustrates what should become the first rule of MarnKookery: never make eccentric pizzas. Eccentric pizzas may seem cute, they may seem like a good way to use up excess ripe avocados, they may seem like a healthy way to get your pizza fix, but invariably the results are unsatisfying at best and tragic at worst. I have a shameful craving for real pizza today, just to eradicate the memory of last night's misadventure.

I prebaked a round of frozen pizza dough I had lying around. This may have contributed to the tragic outcome, as this particular dough was part whole wheat and seemed "heavy" to Mr. CTM. The avocado puree tasted fine on its own, the chicken and tomatoes were great separately, there was nothing wrong with the cheese -- but after assembly this pizza miraculously became less than the sum of its parts.

I may be excessive in my criticism. Don't get me wrong; it was entirely edible, and I would dive right in if I came home from work one day and found it freshly steaming on my kitchen table. But to assemble this pizza from scratch is a waste of ingredients that could be put to better uses.