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Inspired by the amazing looking and smelling shaved asparagus pizza my friend Becca was eating for lunch on Friday at work (made with the asparagus from the CSA share we’re splitting), I literally could not help myself and decided to make the same recipe this past weekend.

Mind-blowing doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Thanks for the inspiration and recipe-sharing, Becca!

I used this homemade olive oil pizza dough recipe, and adapted this shaved asparagus pizza recipe. I stuck to the pizza recipe almost exactly except that I used liberal amounts of fresh mozzarella and fresh shaved Parmesan (because “there’s too much cheese on this pizza” has never been uttered from my mouth) and, because I have a mad love affair with Boursin (a soft garlic and herb cheese), I added hunks of Boursin to the pizza as well. I also substituted the scallions for fresh chopped garlic. It was incredible. Easily the best pizza I have ever made. I have extra dough leftover in my freezer and extra cheese and asparagus so I will be making it again very, very soon. Even if you think you won’t like this pizza, you should try it anyway. I think you’ll be just as impressed as I was.

And because I was on a roll (and because a bolt of lightening/crash of thunder struck so close to the house that I literally lost my mind with terror and decided that if I was going to out with the lightening, I was at least going to die with a belly full of awesomeness), I baked these whole peach individual pies, and took it a step further by topping it with a scoop of fresh vanilla bean ice cream.

Best food day ever: I win.

And now you know the secrets of food greatness, so you can win too…lucky you :)