The “pizza and music nights” are a popular thing up in Ojai. Every Sunday during the summer the surfer- and pizza guy Ben creates some delicious pizzas with ingredients picked from the organic farm nearby in the morning, and at 6pm a long line of Ojai locals are waiting to be seated. The line are usually all the way down the road and even yesterday night the line was long.  The Farmer Steven and his Cook Olivia runs this 100% organic cafe and health food store and also owns the farm. Such a great concept, If you ask me.

When we asked them to be one of our guests in the cookbook they decided to arrange an extra pizza night, just for us… since the season for those nights has ended. That was such a nice gesture and we are beyond grateful! So fun to help making some pizzas and serving them and just inhale the whole valley wibe for a little bit.

The beautiful mom to be Johanna who runs TheGoodLifer and her Marc.

I really like Ojai and the more I’m there, the more familiar faces i see and i do like the small town feel. I’m from a small town so I will probably end up in one, one day.

Ben is baking pizzas like no one else. He is sharing 2 delicious creations with us. But you have to wait until next summer/fall for it. SO GOOD!

It was packed with people and Todd Hannigan was playing all night. If you like mellow singer songwriters, he is something for you.

Ojai is such a friendly little mountain town and it seems like everyone knows each other and that everyone knows their farmer. The Farmers market is not big at all, but it’s really good, organic and of course as local as it gets.

Pistachios with all kinds of flavors from a farm nearby, and he claims that they are the only ones who makes pistachio oil and flour. The oil was tasty and great for salads and the flour is the pulp they get from making the cold pressed oil, that they dry. Great for smoothies or baking.

Wild hibiscus flowers! Homemade hibiscus tea, anyone?

The fruit and veggies at the farmers markets are sparkling right now. I love to throw all theses colors in to a pan with some coconut oil, garlic, salt, pepper and chili flakes and serve with some organic brown rice pasta. It’s so good.  The peaches is almost gone now. I snagged the very last ones that looked somewhat nice. Making my delicious peach pizza with them on a gluten free crispy crust. If i’m hungry? Yeah, I am… have to start chopping those veggies now. Happy sunday peeps!