ROW: Homemade Mushroom and Asparagus Pizza from Umami Girl
She had us at hello. Quite literally the first thing we noticed about this week’s Recipe of the Week winner was her name- “Umami Girl.”
For those of you who may be new to the Umami frame of thinking, we like this definition from The Nibble:
“The fifth taste in addition to salty, sweet, bitter and sour. A taste sensation that is meaty or savory and closely correlated to foods like meat and mushrooms”
As mushrooms are one of the most recognizable sources for umami, you can see where our hearts may have been set aflutter from the beginning. We were further shown her kindred spirit through the fresh and fabulous spring pizza recipe she posted this week, tying it to the passage of season and time.
“Maturity is not all it’s cracked up to be. Except for the spring veggie pizza. It’s a pie worth growing old for.” – Umami Girl proving it’s entirely possible that one can be twitterpated with a food blog.
