Hello There! I am really looking forward to this week's CSA box. I know that not everyone on this forum subscribes to a box, some of you might live far away or some of you might grow your own veggies. I live locally so I am lucky to have a weekly CSA delivery but even as excited as I am every Thursday to open up my box, I don't always use all my produce. I have really great intentions of using all my veggies and making some awesome, gourmet dishes, but that is not always the case. Sometimes it is simply because I lack the imagination to make something different. Here's where y'all come in. Will you post your favorite recipe using seasonal veggies? I would love to get a thread going where we can exchange recipes and broaden my kitchen skills and maybe yours will be broadened as well. Thanks, I look forward to seeing what we get. Below is last weekend's Local Mushroom, Zucchini, Chicken, Bacon Flatbread with roasted garlic white sauce.
Sauce
Roast a head of garlic in the oven. Add diced red onions to a pan with olive oil and saute. Add 1/4 flour and 1 cup of heavy cream. Add salt, pepper, chili flakes. Let, er for 5 min. If it gets too thick, add more cream.
Crust
I used a Trader Joe's ready-made crust but you can find a recipe online pretty easy.
Topping
Dice mushrooms, I used Shiitake from Wolfe Family Farms. Dice zucchini, I used organic from Blosser Urban Gardens (BUG) in Santa Maria. Carmelize onions, I used organic onions from BUG. I cooked nitrate-free bacon in the morning for breakfast and had leftovers so I chopped up some for the toppings. Saute, until soft, the mushrooms and zucchini. Chop up the chicken.
Pizza
Roll out the dough adding some cornmeal to the counter or wherever you are rolling the dough out. Spread the sauce on the dough, leaving about an inch all around the edge. Add all the toppings in this order, caramelized onions, mushroom zucchini mixture, bacon, chicken, top with parmesan cheese.
Cook on a stone or in a pizza oven until the edges are browned.
Wow - that looks awesome! Did you use your own pizza oven? We love having pizza night here on the farm. A crew of us built a pizza oven from scratch, and we have big pizza parties. All our WWOOFers harvest fresh toppings from the garden they'd like to try out, and then everyone makes a personal-sized pizza to share.
We were given a recipe from our dear friends who run a pizza place in Portugal. It's a large batch recipe, but perfect for parties or you could divide it to make smaller portions. We make the balls in advance, let them rise, and then freeze them.
Dough recipe for 55 pizzas: 250 gr per pizza
8 kilos of flour 00, 5-liter water, 10 gr yeast, 225 gr salt, 125 ml olive oil, 20 gr sugar. Mix flour yeast sugar altogether and mix for 1 minute, then all the water (it should be cold water) and mix for 3 minutes, put the salt and mix 1 minute and add the oil and mix 1 minute.
Yes we have a pizza oven in our backyard. My husband and sons built it. I’m going to try that recipe. We were just talking about making a bunch and freezing them.
Here is the recipe for my favorite pizza with mushrooms and white sauce. Cooking yeast dough. We mix warm water with sugar. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour, salt and yeast. Connect in a ball. Add the rast. butter and knead another 10 minutes.
Cover the dough with a film and set in a warm place to approach.
Chop onion, mushrooms and three cheese. We cut it as you like, because then we will punch with a blender. We cut part of the mushrooms for decoration with plates.
We heat the butter in a pan and fry the onion until golden brown. Add mushrooms and wait until they are browned.
Pour the cream. Salt, pepper. Stew for 15-20 minutes. Add cheese at the end.
We break through the blender
Collecting pizza. We divide the dough into two parts and roll it out with a thickness of 2 mm. Smear with sauce on top, sprinkle with spices, spread cheese and mushroom slices
Bake on parchment. You can sprinkle with semolina to make pizza easier to depart. 250 degrees, about 5-7 minutes
Dough
Wheat flour / Flour - 250 g
Water (Warm) - 125 g
Salt - 1/3 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp.
Yeast (With a slide. Dry fast-acting) - 1 tsp.
Sauce
Champignons - 150 g
Cream (20%) - 200 g
Onions - 1 pc.
Spices (Salt, pepper) - To the taste of tsp.
Butter (For frying) - 50 g
Soft cheese - 1 tbsp. l
Filling
Champignons (For decoration) - 50 g
Soft cheese - 200 g
Spices - To the taste of tsp.
Jessica
That sounds amazing! I love a white sauce pizza! Keep these recipes coming. I have a feeling you have a plethora of great food to share.