Every day we're bringing in buckets of fresh produce from the garden. We preserve some of it, and we will show you some of the ways we do that in posts this week. We give some away. We eat the rest of it. One of the really fun things to do around this time of year is to find new and exciting ways to eat the produce. We have 'old stand by' recipes that we make again and again. One of those is Fresh Vegetable Pizza with nothing but produce from the garden.
We first make a nice pizza crust, incorporating rosemary and oregano into the crust to make an herb-infused crust. Its rolled out onto a pizza stone. The crust is then drizzled with olive oil.
Instead of using a tomato sauce, we substitute pesto that we've made last year from the basil crop. We spread it liberally over the top of the pizza. Pesto is the best-o! You've just got to be extra judicious in checking your teeth after eating it. Pesto has a tendency to stick in your teeth and creating an embarrassing situation going in public with green stuff stuck in your teeth.
Sliced tomatoes are put on as the final topper.
Mozzarella cheese is grated on top and it's popped in the oven. When it comes out, we cut up fresh basil on top.
Talk about a fresh meal! Even people who aren't as crazy about vegetables as we are can enjoy this. We made another couple of pizzas this weekend and added Italian Sausage to have the best of both.
This is always a big hit at our house.
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