Five Weeknight Dishes: These pizza-flavored dinner ideas could make you a hero

By Emily Fleischaker, The New York Times

I want new adventures in melty mozzarella. I want infinite pools of caramelized tomato sauce. More than anything, I want my children to get on board with what we call “eating food for dinner.”

Enter this pizza collection. It’s quick and extremely family-friendly, and I’m guessing no one is mad at a bunch of nutritious ways to (sort of) eat pizza. If you want to live dangerously, you could even make one giant vat of tomato sauce to use for two or three of them in one week.

1. Pizza Beans (aka Cheesy White Bean-Tomato Bake)

For those of you who love lasagna’s edges, where sticky tomato meets crisp cheese, this whole dish is for you — even the middle. A tube of tomato paste here mimics the deep flavors of sun-dried tomato. Frying a few generous squeezes caramelizes the tomato’s sugars and saturates the olive oil, making a mixture that’s ready to glom onto anything you stir through it. He...