This makes two pizzas (or one really big one if you have a massive oven and tray). Serves 4 people.

Equipment

  • A big sharp knife
  • Cutting board
  • 2 oven trays
  • A large bowl
  • A sauté pan
  • A colander

Ingredients

Pizza Crust

  • 3 cups flour
  • 1/8 tsp yeast
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 1.25 cups water

Toppings

  • 2 leeks
  • 1 bunch chard (swiss or otherwise)
  • 2 ears corn
  • 3/4 cup goat cheese
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste
  • Pinch of seasoning (rosemary, or oregano, or Italian)
  • Corn meal to coat tray
  • 1.5 tbsp of olive oil (and some more to coat trays)
  • 1 tbsp of butter

Instructions

Pizza Crust

24 hours ahead of time

  1. Stir together salt, yeast, and flour in a bowl (only mixing in the same direction)
  2. Add water
  3. Cover and let sit

Pizza time

  1. Heat oven to 500°F
  2. Coat each tray with olive oil and corn meal
  3. Divide crust in half, placing onto trays
  4. Coat the crust with flour
  5. Spread evenly across tray until you can get it to stretch no further
  6. With a fork, poke ~39.2 times on each crust

Toppings

  1. Cut leeks into small crescents, then chop into 1/2 inch slices
  2. Rinse leeks a lot, then drain on towel
  3. Melt butter with olive oil in pan at medium heat
  4. Put leeks into pan, stirring occasionally
  5. Add salt, pepper, and seasoning to taste
  6. Remove stems from chard
  7. For every 4 chard leaves, roll together, then chop into 1/2 inch slices
  8. When leeks are just starting to brown, add the chard to the pan
  9. Stir for 2-4 minutes, until chard is wilted
  10. Cut corn off the cob
  11. Add corn to pan
  12. Remove from heat
  13. Stir
  14. Taste for seasonings

Combine!

  1. Add toppings to pizza crust
  2. Put into oven for 8 minutes
  3. Eat! (but let it cool for a minute or two)

* Recipe by Carli Wulff, who is well mannered :-)x