Peanutty Pizza

I topped a basic wheat dough with a quick and easy homemade Zippy Peanut Sauce, rings of red onion, broccoli florets and slivers of orange bell pepper. It was really tasty! And yes, even with this stir-fry inspired pizza pass the red pepper flakes and nutritional yeast at the table.

Creamy Spinach Flatbread

My last two pizza's had both arugula and potato. K and I fell in love with arugula on pizza when we were biking through Italy. We always saw rucola on the menus and didn't know what it was as the English translation was always "rocket" a term I had never heard. When we finally ordered a pizza with rucola we were thrilled by the nutty taste of the slightly wilted green that I knew as arugula. Now we use it on our own homemade pizza whenever we have some on hand. We were also introduced to potato as a pizza topping on that Italy vacation and have found that we really enjoy that too although not quite as often as arugula. However, as proof that I don't always use these 2 toppings here is an earlier pizza that we really enjoyed.

I started with a homemade creamy spinach sauce on a whole wheat dough and topped that with rings of red pepper and frozen artichoke hearts. And, as always, we passed the hot pepper flakes and nutritional yeast at the table.

garlic scape pesto pizza

The pizza I made for dinner today had a garlic scape, basil, and parsley pesto sauce, the last bag of pesto from the freezer. Good thing it is spring and we can soon be expecting fresh herbs and scapes from the farm. Garlic scapes aren't quite in season yet (at least not in New England) but they will be soon and they make a tasty pesto so if you see them in a farmers market be sure to grab some.

The pesto was complimented by thinly sliced red skin potatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, greek olives, and fresh arugula from my garden. Very tasty!

As always, be sure to pass the hot pepper flakes and nutritional yeast.

Roasted Red Pepper & Taters

About this blog... My husband and I eat homemade vegan pizza at least a couple times a month and decided that it would be nice to keep a log of what we do so we could repeat some of the better combinations (and avoid the less than stellar ones). I haven't decided yet if this will only be a blog of those pizza creations or other vegan culinary adventures. For now, here is today's pizza creation.

Delicious!! A roasted red pepper spread made our pizza even look like a somwhat normal pizza. With K. allergic to tomatoes we can't do the standard pizza sauce. But the roasted red pepper sauce both looked and tasted great on the pizza. We added thinly sliced potatoes, carmelized onions, and, of course, our favorite topping, fresh arugula.