Cooking al fresco - Pizza

We were so lucky this year to find the most beautiful
camping site on Kootenay Lake. The grounds were
crawling with flowers, herbs, vegetables, and dogs (the dogs have nothing to do with cooking, no worries, it was just
notable). The oregano pictured here was growing mere feet from our tent just begging to be put to good use.
What better than a twist on a classic - pesto - with oregano
instead of basil.

We decided to use the pesto as a base for our pizza, since
we love making it on the grill. See our ingredients
pictured on the right. Using good quality extra virgin olive oil was key in this dish. I used some olive oil to finish by drizzling it all over when the pizza was cooked.













Applying the pesto to the crust, yum.
We used oregano, olive oil, garlic, a little lime juice, salt and pepper.














And.....the finished product! Growing alongside the oregano were chives in blossom. We used these edible flowers to decorate the pizza, very pretty and very yummy.

Thank you to Percy for taking these great pictures!

You can check out these

sites to see more edible flowers:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8513.html
http://whatscookingamerica.net/EdibleFlowers/EdibleFlowersMain.htm

I think pansies in a salad would be beautiful! I also saw on one of these links the idea to freeze flowers within ice cubes - what an elegant drink that would make.