Crew Creations - "Athena's Greek Pizza"

We are starting a new promotion at our Bellingham store called "Crew Creations." We have a creative group of employees up there and they have come up with some great ideas for some new and innovative pizzas we can add to our already stellar lineup. The first in what will be a rotating line of specials is Athena's Greek Pizza (created by Kevin Misiuda).

The Greek Pizza was born after the crew developed a red-pepper hummus to serve with pita-bread as a new appetizer for our Happy Hour special. It wasn't long before one of our shift supervisors, Kevin, and the rest of the crew started experimenting with the Hummus on pizza. The result was our new Greek Pizza.

The Greek pizza uses our red-pepper hummus as the sauce. We then combine our 3 cheese blend with feta and then add zucchini, red peppers, diced green olives, red onion, greek peppers and then top it with shredded parmesan cheese after it is cooked.

I got my first chance to sample this pizza a couple of weeks ago. I was actually very impressed with how flavorful this pizza is. The hummus and greek peppers add a subtle amount of spice, with the feta cheese adding a new dimension to our normal cheese blend. Combine that with our fresh, quality ingredients results in one great pizza.

Besides just the flavor of the pizza, there were two other things that impressed me about this pizza. The first is thanks to the strong flavor provided by the feta they were able to go a little bit lighter on the cheese than normal, helping making a very healthy pizza.

The second thing that also makes this a very healthy pizza is that fact it is actually a veggie pizza. Normally as a card-carrying carnivore I would realize right away that my pizza didn't have any meat on it. I managed to eat all of my pizza without even noticing the lack of meat. It just goes to show how good the flavor is on this pizza. (If you are one of those people who simply cannot eat their pizza without meat, feel free to add some chicken to it).

This is the first in what will be a rotating line of crew-created recipes. Right now you can get a Large Greek Pizza for just $16.99! If you like it enough, we will keep it around even after we get our next crew creation. Come in, give it a try and let us know what you think!