BLT Pizza

The thing about lettuce is that it's very easy to acquire too much. Way, way, way too much. If you grow it yourself or, in my case, get it from your CSA farm share, you realize how quickly and easily it grows, and soon your handful of seeds leaves you with lettuce growing out your ears. (Heh. Leaves you. Geddit?) We're now on week three of our farm share, and still have half a gallon of lettuce left from last week, so we have been desperately trying to find things to do with it besides salad.

By the way, if you don't know what Community Supported Agriculture is, you should totally read about it here. You may even have a farm near you, and many of them are organic. Much more sustainable (and fresh!) than produce shipped from halfway across the country.

So the BLT pizza was an idea I came across on Huff Post, but unfortunately the link redirected to a page of ads. No biggie. I'm a native of NYC, good pizza is in my genes.* Time to get inventing!

Ingredients:
1 ball pizza dough, rolled out, on a pizza pan or baking sheet (you could make this, but seriously, just buy it at the store - it's really hard to mess up and is a pain to make)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
3 TBS fresh herbs, chopped (oregano would be good - I used savory as it was already in the fridge)
8 oz mozzarella, grated
4 oz parmesan, grated
2-3 tomatoes, sliced thin and patted dry
1/2 small red onion, sliced thin
Handful mushrooms, sliced
5-6 slices bacon, precooked to remove as much grease as possible, and sliced cross-ways (I tend to use veggie bacon - you could use turkey bacon, but I wouldn't recommend the pig variety as too much grease will make the pizza runny and gross)
2 large handfuls of baby lettuce

Directions:
Preheat oven to 475. Mix mayo with garlic and herbs. Spread on the dough. Layer everything else on top except lettuce - we did tomatoes on the bottom, then cheese, then the rest, but you could put cheese on the bottom. Bake 20 minutes or until the crust is slightly brown and cheese is melted. The last 2-3 minutes of baking, throw the lettuce on top and allow it to wilt slightly. This is a super-filling pizza.


*This was not a scientifically accurate statement. Don't believe everything you read on the web, folks.