Garlic Scape Pesto with Mushrooms and Apple Wood Smoke Bacon

There have been a couple of pizzas in the past few weeks, but no time to write about them. However, today is officially my first day of summer vacation, and we made a special pizza to celebrate.

First, I made Garlic Scape Pesto

Ingredients

• 1 pound garlic scapes, cut into 2-inch pieces
• 1 1/4 cups grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• ground black pepper to taste
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• Directions

1. Blend the garlic scapes, Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice, and pepper together in a food processor until smooth.

I added our own homemade spicy olive oil as well. It took some doing (i.e. I started in the blender, then transfered to the hand-cranked food processor, and finished in the blender...) but the result is well worth it! Such a delectable smell!

Alan made our standard dough, and we topped it with :


- the pesto
- three types of mushroom (button, crimini and portabello) 
- thinly sliced radishes
- chopped bacon from Martock Glen Farm which came in our meat share from Taproot this week. 


Finished off with mozzarella and the 4-cheese blend we are so fond of (provolone, parmesan, asiago and fontina). 

Before cooking :

And after - YUM : 

As I said, we have made a couple of pretty spectacular pizzas over the past few weeks.... it seems a shame not to share them!

Pesto (store-bought basil), kale, green onion, prosciutto, feta cheese, 4-cheese blend and mozza :

Pizza sauce, red peppers, yellow peppers, asparagus, pepperoni and mozza :