Coconut Pizza

Lisa at The Nourishing Homemaker has a great recipe for Coconut Pizza crust. I was very excited to give her recipe a try, although I changed it some. It would have been easy to keep this pizza Paleo but we decided to add a little cheese.  

 Dough pre oven

Kids Pizza (green peppers and turkey bacon)

Adult Pizza (green peppers, turkey bacon and broccoli) I added rosemary to the dough and a little garlic powder.

This crust was great and did not feel as soggy as the Almond Meal Pizza Crust. I think I may have found out go to crust.

The Ingredients:
3 eggs
1/2 cup Coconut Flour
1 cup Coconut Milk
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp baking powder ( might have been too much)


The Directions:
Preheat 375 degrees.

Line a cookie sheet with Parchment paper. Brush with Coconut Oil. Lightly beat eggs, milk and garlic powder. Mix until the mixture is smooth. Mix the wet and dry ingredients, mix until the dough thickens up a little bit, should be like a batter.

Pour the dough evenly on the lined cookie sheet. I made mine but starting in the middle and working my way out.

Bake the dough for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and flip. (be careful)

Top with desired toppings and broil for another 10 minutes.

My boys and our friends kids enjoyed the pizza! :) Hubby and I enjoyed the pizza, too!

Part of Pennywise Thursday, Miz Helen's Full Plate Thursday

Taco Pizza

I know, I do not want emails or comments but we used corn. Yes, we realize it is considered a grain and is not part of the Paleo diet and in general should not be consumed...


Now that that is out in the open! We enjoyed a taco pizza with Almond Meal crust. I must say with was the perfect meal!!!


The Ingredients:

Crust:

2 cups Almond Meal

2 eggs

1/4 tsp Baking Soda

3 TBSP Olive Oil

1 tsp Garlic Powder

Fresh Thyme (rosemary would be good)

Toppings:

1/2 - 3/4 lb Ground Venison

1 cup tomatoes, diced (can or fresh)

1/2 cup corn

2 cups lettuce

1 cup tomato sauce

1/2 zucchini, diced real small (size of corn)

1 avocado

The Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350. 

Using a spoon mix all crust ingredients together until it becomes very thick.  Using your hands, form the dough into a ball.  Lightly grease a pizza pan or a cookie sheet with olive oil.  Place the ball of dough in the center of your cookie sheet or pizza pan and using your hands, push and pat the dough down into the shape of a circle (or an oval in my case…).  You want to make the dough as thin as possible.  Your pizza will be about 12 inches across.  Bake JUST the crust in your pre-heated oven for 20 minutes.  While your crust is cooking, prepare your toppings.  I browned the venison, here! 

After the crust if done, remove from the oven and evenly spread the marinara sauce over the crust.  Add the venison and tomatoes, zucchini, corn evenly over the sauce and bake again for an additional 25-30 minutes.  Top the pizza with lettuce and avocado!

Get creative and use whatever toppings you might like – ours was great but I also suggest trying chicken, artichoke hearts, and even broccoli!!  If you are sausage eaters it could be good!

Simple Lives Thursday

Sweet Potato and Rosemary BBQ pizza

I love pizza. I do not know what it is about pizza but I could have it everyday. I was in one of those moods where I wanted pizza but was not willing to go and settle for a greasy pizza. I was in the mood for something a little more healthy.

I was looking around my kitchen for possible pizza toppings and discovered that I had a sweet potato left from our food share last week and I had some fresh rosemary from this weeks food share.

Why not put the both together with a little BBQ pizza?!?!

The Ingredients:

1/4 - 1 cup BBQ sauce

1 6oz ball of fresh or frozen pizza dough (I used Gluten-Free dough from Whole Foods)

3 small onions, sliced thinly

1 TBSP Olive Oil

1 sweet potato, sliced thinly

3 TBSP fresh Rosemary

1 cup RAW cheddar cheese

Sea Salt, if needed

The Directions:

For Frozen Dough: Follow the direction on the package for thawing.

Preheat over to 350 degrees.

Caramelize the onions in Olive Oil and set aside until cooled.

On a dusted counter knead dough until firm. On a greased, or sprayed or Olive Oiled cookie sheet, spread dough out. I decided to make a square shape pizza. Brush on Olive Oil over the outer edges of the pizza.

Pour BBQ sauce on the dough and spread out evenly. Add the sweet potato and caramelized onions. Top with Rosemary and cheese of choice!

I cooked my Gluten-Free Dough for 12 - 15 minutes.

*The original recipe called for marinara sauce instead of BBQ sauce.

Pesto Pizza

A friend of mine found a great recipe for pesto pizza on French Bread. Her pictures looked wonderful and she raved so much that I went and made it the next day!

Thank you, friend of mine, for finding this wonderful recipe!!!!

The Ingredients:

2 pints Grape Tomatoes

½ cups Pesto (I used homemade)

1 pound French Bread Loaf, Halved Lengthwise

1-½ cup Mozzarella Cheese

2 Tablespoons Parmesan Cheese

The Directions:

Preheat the oven to 420 degrees. Combine the tomatoes and pesto in a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes until tomatoes begin to burst. (Check out the related link for a pesto recipe.)

Then spread the tomato pesto mixture over both sides of the French bread. Then sprinkle the mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses on top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Then serve the Pesto Pizza

I decided to add a little Italian Seasoning to my pizza.