A Good Fresh Summertime Pizza!

One great thing about the summer (let's talk positive things!) is coming up with delicious ways to use all the fresh produce coming in from the garden.  I am going to admit, my sweet corn produced in dismal fashion this year.  The germination of the heirloom varieties I planted was bad on the first planting and hardly any came up.  Then I went and bought hybrid sweet corn from Tractor Supply and experienced the same thing!

This weekend the same gentleman from our church that blessed us with all the Crack Peas also gave us a garbage bag full of fresh picked sweet corn.  It was a bag so full, I could hardly carry it.  We shucked it, cleaned it, and removed all the silk.  Then we blanched and froze some whole (on the cob).  Then we began to cut some off the cob and bagged and froze that as well.

With more corn than we knew what to do with and a copious amount of tomatoes ripening, we decided to make a few homemade pizzas.  We made pizza dough in the bread machine and spread homemade pesto on the crust, sprinkling fresh cut corn on top complimented by fresh sliced tomatoes.  This pizza is coming together!

Lots of cheese was grated on top as we waited for the oven to warm up...

We removed the pie from the oven and sliced fresh basil on top and cut the pizza into eighths.

Time to eat!

Many trendy 'farm to table' restaurants popped up in the past few years boasting about local foods and relationships with local farmers and ranchers.  You don't have to go to a restaurant to experience this, though.  Any gardener can do this.  Food is best when fresh.  Nothing can be fresher than something that you put labor into and can go out in the garden, harvest, and find a good recipe to use nature's bounty in making a meal that you won't forget.