Thursday, August 23, 2007

Amy's gluten-free Pizza!

I don't usually buy pre-packaged food products, but holy crap did I need some pizza! What I was thinking to do was buy some complete protein bread, vegan cheeze, and fry up some mushrooms. All the complete protein breads had gluten *sigh* so Jeremy and I looked at Amy's pizzas, some of which have corn crusts. Problem was, they're mm mm cheesy. But wait: rice crust, dairy-free pizza with spinach? Sold! We bought some extra mozzarella cheeze*, and skipped our way home.

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Here are some extras I added once we got home:
5 large shiitake mushrooms, cleaned and destemmed, chopped
4 cloves garlic, diced
2T Grapeseed oil
salt to taste
1 smallish tomato, thinly sliced
about 8 thin slices of mozzarella cheeze

In a pan, heat grapeseed oil on medium high heat. Toss in mushrooms, salt. Sautee until wilted, then add garlic and continue the sautee until garlic is soft.

Arrange all toppings onto pizza, and bake as directed.
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Now, after I was done with all of this, the pizza itself had thawed a little bit, so I put it on a cookie sheet so it wouldn't sag. Because of this small thaw, I think, the crust nearly burned. I didn't get enough broil time to melt the cheezes, but even so, they were both fairly soft. So I took it out, and pizza was had.

I've got to say, that I was disappointed in the nearly burning crust. The crust was pretty browned pre-freezing, but I abided by the cooking time. Aside from that, the pizza was pretty good. The cheezes were nice, I liked the spinach, and it wasn't slathered in tomato sauce. It really needed the mushrooms, but I think everything needs mushrooms. ;)


*Follow Your Heart vegan cheeze is one of the only palatable cheezes I've found so far. When I used to eat dairy, I was a big melty cheese person. I loved mozzarella cheeses, and was always very picky about the true cheese, not the lame, not stringy, shredded cheese. I really like Follow Your Heart, and they're local! Score!


Time for bed now. Goodnight!

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