Pepperoni Sauce Pizza

I have so much DC pride, especially for all of our chefs who come home from Top Chef and make a splash.  Last summer, when Mike Isabella's Graffiato opened in Chinatown with the promise of the pepperoni sauce as featured on his final meal in Top Chef Allstars I knew I needed to eat there.  The sauce was amazing, as intimated by Gail, and it has been one of very few times in my adult life where I felt compelled to lick the plate.

Ever since, I had the idea shaking around in the back of my brain to create a reverse pizza.  Pepperoni sauce topped with mozzarella and tomato slices to look like pepperonis on top!  And we all know my stance on adorable food.  So when I saw on sale mozz then ready made pizza dough directly next to the last package of pepperoni at Trader Joe's, I knew I needed to finally attempt the sauce!

And oh this sauce!  Isabella is a genius, I can really take no credit.  The recipe he put out for it in the Washington post was for a giant batch so I just halved it and used campari tomatoes instead of half of a can.  I probably should have made the whole thing . . .