Jan 30 2009
Carappleburger Pizza
This pizza was an experiment with some pretty good results. It needed some tweaking and the next version will be even better I’m sure. It just shows that with a little imagination you can create a meal that is healthy, tasty and filling and with not too much effort.
The Stuff
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. baking soda
¾ cup water
1 tbsp. Italian spices
Toppings
1 carrot shredded
1 piece of mozzarella cheese shredded (size of a tennis ball)
1 cup of Pierre’s Make Anytin’ Wit It Sauce
1 apple cut up into smaller pieces
What To Do
Set the oven to 425° F
Mix all the stuff in an aluminum mixing bowl with a stiff stainless steel fork. Add flour if the mixture is too sticky, water if it’s too dry.
Scoop the dough into a non-stick pizza pan. I only have one and use it for everything that goes into the oven for baking. Take the stainless steel fork and work the dough around until you have filled the pan evenly.
Spread the sauce (you can use a canned or jarred meat sauce in its place) all around the dough. Spread the cut pieces of apple all over and then the cheese and carrot.
Bake for 25 minutes or so and sprinkle demerrara sugar (dark brown sugar with the molasses still intact) on top of the finished pizza.
It was pretty good, filling, and fairly healthy for a pizza. It needed something though so the next time I might go to the store and get more ingredients. It was snowing like crazy so I had to use what was there. I’m thinking the broccoli spears again—just the little tips on the head, shaved off and spread all over the pizza. Some pineapple and a little ham maybe or Kolbassa and red onions. Maybe even a banana. (I remember a great meal I had at a friend’s restaurant in Barbados. Every course I ordered had bananas in it. The banana ice cream was the best I have ever eaten.)
Even the crusts in this recipe were tasty. They had a flavour a lot more like German pretzels. It all disappeared in one evening so it wasn’t terrible. It just needed to be booted up a peg.
Nah, that other guy used kick it up a notch and Bam just scares people. I just try this stuff because I’d rather try something creative than dial for delivery because I can never tell the difference in taste between the pizza and the box.
