Earthy and herbaceous, pungent and a little bit sweet, this green bean pizza is a study in early fall flavors.
Garlic Scape Pizza with Hakurei Turnips and Pepperoni
Ah, summer, the best season for what-grows-together-goes-together meals — and pizzas inspired by farmers' market displays. This pizza is a celebration of two underrated early summer veggies: garlic scapes and Hakurei turnips. In case you've never heard of either of these summer veggies, let me drop a little farmers' market knowledge: Garlic scapes are the thin,...
How to Make Campfire Pizza
Take your pizza skills into the wilderness with this easy campfire pizza tutorial.
Swiss Chard Pizza with Bacon and Spring Onions
This springy Swiss chard pizza is full of umami and fresh green flavor with spring onions (or scallions), bacon, cream, and fontina cheese. As it turns out, chard and spring onions make quite the pair—each delicate and bright, with flavors that simultaneously balance and highlight the other. Add bacon, nutty fontina, and a drizzle of heavy cream,...
BLT Pizza (with garlic scape aioli and American cheese)
Is there anything better than a BLT with heirloom tomatoes, bacon, mayo, and crisp butterhead lettuce? How 'bout a BLT pizza with zippy aioli sauce and melty slices of American cheese?
The Basics: Summer Squash Pizza Crust (with Gluten-Free Variation)
Remember when I made a Garden Surplus Pizza to use up my first big harvest of summer squash? Well, soon after that, the squash plant had completely swallowed my garden bench and we were eating the stuff almost every night in salads, breads, sautés, and stir-fries. You might say this summer squash pizza crust was perfected out...
Fresh Corn Pizza with garlic scape pesto, red onion, and feta
Based on one of my favorite summer recipes, this fresh corn pizza is an homage to the warmest season. Around this time every year, after I've eaten my first few ears of sweet corn right off the cob, I start to crave Ina Garten's Fresh Corn Salad. Like all of Ina's famous recipes, this one is...
The Ultimate Cheese Dog Pizza (with mustard, relish & fresh tomato)
Just in time for the Fourth of July, I give you the quintessential, all-American hot dog pizza, complete with yellow mustard, sweet pickle relish, fresh tomato and onion, and gooey cheese sauce. In John's words, it's "the most audacious" pizza I've ever made, exploding with flavors that enhance—rather than overpower—the humble franks.
Sweet Pea Pizza (Pea-zza?) with snow peas, mushrooms, mint & cream
It's vegetables like snow peas that make me wish I'd coined the term "dirt candy" myself. When they first arrived at the Farmstand at the end of last week, along with sugar snap peas, another one of my favorites, I spent my whole shift sneaking one here, another there, until finally I fessed up and...
Salsa Verde Chicken Pizza with Scallions, Olives, and Queso Fresco
This recipe knocks out two dinners in one day: Slow cooker shredded chicken, which is great in tacos, and Salsa Verde Chicken Pizza.
Ratatouille Pizza (with eggplant, bell pepper, zucchini, onion & tomato)
It isn't actually summer until the farmers' market is bright with jewel-toned eggplants, zucchini, bell peppers, and tomatoes. And usually when I see these summer garden stalwarts all together in one place, I dream of ratatouille pizza, based on the stunning French casserole of thinly sliced or cubed summer vegetables. For this ratatouille pizza recipe, I made a roasted...
Garlic Scape Pesto with Mint and Pistachios
Classic pesto is a great red sauce pizza alternative throughout the year. But in spring and early summer, I swear by this garlic scape pesto, balanced with fresh mint from the garden and toasted pistachios.