Spinach Bacon Salmon Pizza! Yes I'll have another.

Behold the Spinach Bacon Salmon Pizza!

We have decided that the three food groups of seasonal eating are tacos, stir-fry, and pizza. You can basically make them out of any seasonal vegetable or fruit with basic kitchen staples and few exotic spices. Take tacos for example, all you need to have in your kitchen is corn tortillas and refried beans. When it comes squash and sweet potato season, you will certainly hear more about tacos. Stir-fry is another good one because all you need is rice, vegetables, some meat if you like, olive oil, soy sauce, garlic and ginger.

Lately we've been on a spinach pizza kick - because we are nearly drowning in all of this fantastic spinach (you can find it at Natural Farms or the Blue Jackalope hint hint). Two weeks ago, a friend came over and helped us make about 20 homemade pizza crusts and we froze them. If you don't want to go to that trouble I'm sure you can buy them frozen, or even use a piece of focaccia.

Here's our recipe - it is approximate

Spinach Bacon Salmon Pizza - takes about 30 minutes if the crust is already prepared.

1 Pizza Crust or focaccia
1/2 # Spinach steamed until wilted
3/4 # Salmon filet
1/2 # of chopped asparagus steamed until bright green and tender
3 strips of bacon (Jeff's bacon is great - he salt/sugar cures it himself)
1/4 cup cream cheese
some milk
salt, pepper, and lemon juice to taste


Start the pizza crust baking at 450 F if it is not already cooked while you steam the spinach and asparagus. Cook your bacon and eat one piece, then chop the other two for the pizza. Sear the skin side of the salmon in the smoking hot bacon grease. Don't cook it completely - leave it mostly raw. Drain all but a few tablespoons of the grease, add some milk like you are making gravy. Let it cook down a little and then stir in the cream cheese until it is the consistency of gravy. Once that is done add the steamed asparagus and spinach and stir it up. This is your pizza sauce! When you pizza crust is nearly cooked (or warmed up) pull it out and spread your pizza sauce onto it and then scatter the chopped bacon pieces. Slice the seared salmon into wedges and arrange them how you like them. Put it back in the oven at 450F until the salmon is cooked to the desired doneness.

Presto! Fantabuluous local food pizza in March (yes I know salmon don't grow here). Ours was awsome and I hope yours is better.

I left the farm today right before the rain came, and I shot some photos of the South field where we have already planted an acre. Please marvel at the fairly strait beds from the homemade bedmaker.

-Don