Apricot, Walnut, and Brie Pizza with Pistachio Pesto

apricot, walnut, and Brie pizza
apricot, walnut, and Brie pizza
A nice casual meal that is quite exotic.

We know you aren’t one of those people who think that pizza is red sauce and mozz. Instead, you, being a scratcher, are one of those people who look in the refrigerator, see a few dried apricots, and think, “those would be good on pizza.” And, if you didn’t think about it before, you’re now thinking, “apricots, on pizza, why not?” We can’t really take full credit for this pizza, because it was inspired by a pizza they served up down at Falora here in Tucson (we happen to think it’s one of the best places in town for pizza). But, just inspired.

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Simple Pizza Sauce

pizza, right from the oven.
pizza, right from the oven.
Pizza fresh from the oven!

We noticed the other day that we’ve posted how we make pizza, but we blithely note that you need pizza sauce, without letting you know how we make it. Mea Culpa. Let’s remedy that right now.

We actually make several types of pizza sauce, depending on the tomatoes that we have on hand, trying to coax out the very best flavors from those ‘matoes. This is the sauce we use when we have canned San Marzano tomatoes on hand.

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