Pizza

Tonight is pizza night.  I haven't made homemade pizza in months, and we both have been craving it.  We have some turkey kielbasa that I am slicing super thin and we're topping it with sliced red onions, chopped tomato, and fresh mozzarella.  Add in some chili oil and we should be good.  Too bad we've yet to find dried chili's for the chili oil!  

If you need creative ideas for pizza, I highly recommend looking at menus of places that make authentic thin crust Italian style pizza.  The restaurant we went to all the time in England, Strada, has their menus online (as well as a recipe section!) and we've gathered inspiration from their pizzas, pasta, appetizers, oh, everything really.  Rather than just doing pepperoni, think about what else you can add.  Veggies, mushrooms, spices, etc.  The summer is the perfect time to experiment with so many vegetables being plentiful and cheap.  

And on that note I want to highly recommend really thinking about seasonality.  As much as we love roasted brussels sprouts and asparagus (both currently plentifully available at our local commissary), we know they won't be as good as when in season.  There is nothing like roasted brussels sprouts with garlic and olive oil in the winter, or asparagus in pasta and on salads in the spring.  But once summer hits, asparagus is tougher, less flavorful, and if you want it in pasta I recommend frozen.  It's been hard, because we love our veggies in this house!  But by focusing on what's in season we've gotten yummy food that easily satisfies because it's bursting with flavor and the texture is perfect!