Have you tried gluten free pizza yet? I have. I’ve bought the frozen pizzas ready to pop in the oven. I’ve tried the frozen crusts topped with my own sauce and cheese. I’ve even tried gluten free delivery.

Honestly, they’re not very good.

The frozen pizzas don’t bake up beyond the appeal of an over-sized cracker with melted cheese. The frozen crusts are sometimes hard to differentiate from the cardboard they sit on. And delivered pizzas don’t hold up well from there to here, offering a sad tease of a pie. So what’s a girl to do when she wants a fresh, hot pizza? She orders from ‘Zaw Pizza.

‘Zaw Pizza is an innovative Seattle business. They’re green, they’re local and they’re good. Billed as “artisan bake-at-home pizza”, ‘Zaw uses organic flours from Bob’s Red Mill and all of their toppings are sourced locally. In fact, if you buy them from their stand at one of the local Farmers Markets, the toppings are likely to have been purchased from a neighboring stand.

The menu offers a number of delicious and innovative combinations, but you if a standard cheese pie floats your boat you can get that, too. Three crusts are available (white, wheat, gluten free) and create-your-own masterpieces are encouraged. Gluten free crusts can only be ordered in the large size and will put you back an extra $4, but still well worth it if you’ve got a hankering for fresh, hot pizza. You order your pie, pick it up, take it home, and bake it yourself.

The gluten free dough is a mix of garbanzo flour, amaranth flour, rice flour and tapioca. They’re mindful of cross-contamination and, though all dough is prepared in the same kitchen, separate mixers are used for the gluten free and gluten containing doughs. Since they don’t use pans (pizzas are made on recyclable cardboard discs), cross contamination from cookware isn’t an issue.

With such an extensive selection of ingredients, making our own seemed overwhelming. And besides, why reinvent the wheel? They offer so many yummy sounding pizzas that in our hungry state, we took the easy route and ordered straight from the menu. Thinking ahead, we ordered two. One for immediate consumption, one for the freezer. We did a half-and-half of Savory Savary (hot Italian sausage, maple syrup, caramelized red onions, sage and a blend of cheeses) and a seasonal special that included blackberries.The verdict? Hot and delicious! The crust was just the right kind of soft, nothing like a cracker. Toppings were fresh and plentiful. And as a bonus, our house smelled divine.