PIZZA TUESDAYS

Skyr & Brennevín sauce, wildberry jam, caramelized fennel & crimini mushrooms, black lava salt, licorice While we already made one pizza in anticipation of our trip to Iceland, this one was inspired by a lot of the ingredients and flavors we found while we were there. We found that while a lot of traditional Icelandic foods use harsh, acquired-taste Viking flavors like brennevín, licorice and fermented shark, Icelanders themselves tend to offset this by favoring sweet, rich f

Sauteed fennel, chanterelle & maitake mushrooms, aquavit & gjetost cheese sauce, shallots & dill We came up with this pizza after a visit to Adam’s parents in Minnesota, where Scandinavian cuisine is second only to cheese, and where we tried Aquavit and gjetost for the first time. Aquavit is kind of like a Scandinavian gin made with caraway and other flavors. It’s intense, but definitely worth trying. Gjetost (pronounced yay-toast) is a strangely sweet, almost caramely rich c

Oven-roasted Brussels sprouts, delicata squash, fennel, onions, purple carrots, hinona kabu turnips, freekeh with red wine vinegar, kale, crumbled feta, pine nuts, fresh pea shoots The great thing about this recipe is that you can really substitute whatever vegetables are in season. We found these strange purple hinona kabu turnips at the farmer’s market, so we had to try them out, but you could just as easily use another type of turnip or radish. I wouldn’t lose the fennel,

Goat cheese, fried artichoke hearts, lemon aioli, grilled chili peppers, caramelized fennel bulbs, fresh dill Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of dough flour for dusting semolina flour for pizza stone olive oil salt & pepper 2-3 long hot chili peppers 1 log of goat cheese, crumbled a few sprigs of dill, chopped lemon juice 4 whole artichokes For the aioli: ½ cup mayonnaise 1-2 teaspoons lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 clove garlic, minc

Grapefruit guacamole (with avocado, grapefruit, red onion, cilantro, ghost pepper hot sauce), taleggio cheese, toasted walnuts, oven-roasted fennel (with curry powder, paprika & salt), grapefruit, fennel fronds Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball of pizza dough olive oil flour for dusting semolina flour for the pizza stone salt & pepper 2 ripe avocados, roughly chopped 2 grapefruit, peeled and segmented (membranes removed) ¼ small red onion, minced 2 tablespoons cilantro, minc

Sweet pepper & fennel sauce, buffalo mozzarella, chioggia beets (tossed in olive oil, salt & pepper), fa​va beans, shredded carrots, arugula, shredded parmesan Recipe Ingredients: 1 ball pizza dough flour for dusting semolina flour for the pizza stone Sweet Pepper & Fennel Sauce (we got ours from Robert Rothschild Farm) 3 medium chioggia beets, peeled & sliced thinly (on a mandoline if you have one) olive oil salt & pepper to taste 1 can fava beans, drained 1 carrot, p