on that path

The folks from the Million Pizza Project put forth the following challenge:

1. make your own pizza (bonus points for making them with organic ingredients, super bonus if you grow your own sourdough culture for yeast)

2. pizza should have interesting, unusual ingredients, e.g. Richard Blume '06 found a pizza with Kangaroo on it in Australia

3. pizza is made with LOCAL ingredients - e.g. http://100milediet. org/ AND the topics of DIALOGUE during the making and eating are noted. Food and relaxed conversation are a great way to let minds explore tricky topics in a nice way.

To address this challenge, Joanna and I managed to find all-local toppings for this pizza experiment. The ONLY non-local ingredients were flour, baking powder, and vegetable oil.

So, here is the list of our local yukon ingredients:

tomatos
tomatillos
wild morel mushrooms
chard
goat feta
moose bratwurst
chives & herbs
potato (in the crust only)

These came from farmer's markets, Joanna's backyard, Heather's backyard, or the forest (thanks to Lawrence and Jake for the moose!). Annie joined us as a dinner guest and finished everything on her plate. We didn't discuss tricky subjects in the kitchen, but did have fun with this!