Use prepackaged 'pizza yeast' with your own additions of honey & cream cheese to make a quick and flavorful whole wheat pizza dough.
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This is a teaser post, and I utterly own up to teasing you with a delicious-yet-unattainable-today pizza. See, the sauce is made of garlic scape pesto, and you can't find fresh garlic scapes right now. Not in the grocery store, not in the farmer's market, not off the internet.
Garlic scapes are one of those items that are only available for a brief time, and after that: poof. Unlike asparagus (another actually seasonal item that's nowadays available in the grocery store year-round because it's shipped from other countries during the off-season) garlic scapes are a get-them-before-they-are-gone item, else you're out of luck. One of the reasons I enjoy eating seasonally is because I get to look forward to different foods throughout the year.
So why am I sharing this pizza while my garlic bed out in the garden looks like this?
Simply because, again unlike asparagus, you can put up garlic scapes when they are plentiful and enjoy them later. Garlic scape pesto freezes well, and provides a lovely mild garlic flavor and gorgeous color any time you use it in a dish. I'm partial to pizza.
Now, I've already written (and scheduled for Spring, in anticipation of garlic scapes in our Community Supported Agriculture [CSA] farm share) a post about how to make the pesto I used in today's pizza. Instead I'll share the recipe for dough.
Yes, yes, I know I said in my Pizza Primer that I make my dough days ahead. I usually do. But not always--sometimes it's Friday afternoon and I've got nothing prepared. That's when I grab a packet of pizza crust yeast [This is not a sponsored post, I buy my own packets--with coupons, always--and Fleischmann's doesn't know I exist. I'm just sharing the name of a product that I buy, use, and love--and if it inspires you to be successful in making pizza at home I'd love to hear it in the comments below.]
The inspiration for this pizza crust came from my friend Kim, who said she often makes a honey wheat pizza on her family pizza nights. Never having tried honey wheat dough, I decided to adjust the recipe on the pizza crust yeast packet to make my own fast honey wheat dough. I also threw in some cream cheese in lieu of oil just because I had some sitting on the counter from my son's post-braces removal Everything Bagel after school snack. I can't call this a fat-free dough because I used regular cream cheese, and I can't call it oil-free dough because I did put it in an oiled bowl and used oil on the parchment paper. So Fast Creamy Honey Wheat Pizza Dough it is.
