southwestern flair in green

It has been awhile since we've made pizza, mostly because it has been too hot to turn on the oven lately. This week we have been getting some thunderstorms and rain which is really cooling things off so I fired up the oven and made a pizza last night - yum!

It was a rather unusual pizza that I made, but it tasted pretty good. I made my own whole wheat pizza crust (actually half whole wheat and half white flour). The sauce was an herb & black bean puree which had cilantro, basil, garlic scapes, garlic, cumin, lime, nutritional yeast, salt, and obviously, black beans. For toppings, I sauteed some summer squash and mushrooms and I also added slices of avocado when the pizza came out of the oven. As always we passed red pepper flakes and more nutritional yeast at the table.

On the new 10 point scale we give this a 7. It looked pretty in a rather monochromatic way but some brilliant red would have enhanced the visual apeal as well as the flavor. My preference would have been some slices of fresh tomato (the tomatoes at the farm are still green so we won't be seeing them for another week or so.) K suggested roasted red peppers on his half which I agree would taste good as well. I might also throw some olives on next time.