Spicy Sausage and Fennel Pizza

We don't normally follow a recipe for our pizzas, but we got a fennel bulb in our CSA from Taproot Farms and I thought I should see if we could use it in pizza.

The source for this recipe is Big Girls, Small Kitchen - I like their name, I like that they are entrepreneurs, and I like their recipes! Win-win-win!

First, we sliced and roasted the fennel bulb :

We didn't have any sausages on hand, and it's difficult to justify buying more meat when we get such excellent product in our CSA, so I decided to make my own spicy ground pork :

- 1 lb ground pork
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 4 crushed garlic cloves
- 3 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp crushed red pepper
- 3 - 4 tsp paprika

I let it sit for a while before cooking it, to let the spices do their work, and then fried the meat.


Following the recipe, we used pizza sauce as a base, and topped it with feta (this was my idea, can't follow a recipe exactly after all!) and parmesan cheeses :

Out of the oven :

Nice flavour - spicy, but not too spicy. The fennel was good, and the saltiness of the feta set off the other flavours. I'm not personally a fan of tomato sauce, but Alan said it was excellent!