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It's vegan mofo... no, before you get all uppity about my language, this isn't about some film starring Samuel L. Jackson as some animal rights vigilante bad-ass, it's vegan MOnth of FOod! Orright? Anyway, I haven't written anything! Something quick, something easy... Pizza! Is there anyone who doesn't love it? No! Put delicious thingies on a hot bready base, and... mmmmmmm. Vegan pizzas usually raise an eyebrow or two, naturally, since pizzas these days seem to be all about cheese. Anyway, you can use soy/rice/liquefied tire cheese if you want to... but I like my pizzas without.

So today, I write about my "Vegan Mo'Fo' Pizza"... you read that right, suckers, mofo does not mean month of food this time.

When I was a kid, my favourite pizza was pepperoni pizza. With extra pepperoni. And extra onion. And double anchovies. Yep, I'd smell for a good 24 hours after one of those, slowly excreting fishy, salty, onion-flavoured sausage juice from my pores. Yech. But to me pizza is all about FLAVOR COUNTRY. My better half likes minimal pizzas, where the ingredients make their own statement. Not me - pile it on, I say! Less is more? No... MORE IS MORE! If you would like to visit flavor country too, I recommend at least one, or preferably ALL of the following:

• Sun-dried tomatoes
• Marinated artichokes
• Capers - the saltier, the better!
• Marinated jalapeños
• Italian-style vegan sausage
• Basil paste
• Some tasty extra virgin olive oil

Here's the story in pictures.

Pita bread. Add tomato paste.

Basil paste! The secret foundation of the flavor country landscape. Make sure you get basil paste, and not pesto, which often contains cheese.

Red onion, peppers (capsicum!), jalapeños.

Portabello mushroom, eggplant (aubergine!), diced zucchini (courgette!), or whatever's in the fridge...

Now for the good stuff!

Then GOOD olive oil. How much? You can never have too much olive oil!

Cook for twenty minutes, then gobble to your greedy little heart's content! Okay, so my pizza wouldn't have won any beauty awards - it's not meant to - it's a taste MONSTER! And yes, piling this much stuff on without cementing it in place with cheese inevitably results in some fallout. To me, it's part of the challenge. It wouldn't be as fun any other way. Pizza is an easy way to use up the decaying vegetable matter in your fridge, without needing any strict ingredients to make a recipe.

Cripes... those jalapeños where hot! Better chase it down with some Turtle Mountain coconut milk ice-cream.

The following week, when left home alone, I was excited to make a much better pizza, since I now had some Tofurky Italian Style Sausage in the fridge... Yummy! I made the pizza and was halfway cooking the thing when I realized I totally forgot to put the damn sausage on!

No worries, i chopped some up, bunged it on the stove for a bit....

Flavor. Country. Mm, with asparagus!

Mofurky. Bloody yum-bo.