Quesadilla Pizza

So I just threw this together for my brother, who is a lover of chesse, pizza, and tortillas.
I was first just introducing him to a simple melted taco cheese inside of a folded up tortilla, and then I saw our turkey pepperoni and thought of throwing that in, but he was slightly hesitant to try something new, so I did a just cheese one.

Then I struck me, I can make him a quasadilla pizza! I can easily make a sauce to put in it. We have the cheese and the pepperoni.

So I threw together a quick pizza sauce.
2 1/2 serving spoons of tomato sauce
a few shakes of oregano, garlic and onion powder with a pinch of salt.
Slather that on the tortialla.
Sprinkle a couple handfuls of taco cheese
layer on the turkey pepperoni
sprinkle some more cheese

I slid it in the microwave for 1 minute and 10 seconds.

You could just as easily make this on a skillet, mine were just dirty.

Seeing as this guy is a tough critic of some of my foods, I think him loving it says a lot!!

Strawberry smoothie

This is so simple and can be made all year round. It's rather filling and delicious and healthy!

serves 2 people depending on your appetite

You need:

Blender
1 banana
1/3 cup blueberries (I use frozen)
2 cups frozen strawberries
1/3 cup water or sweetened nut milk
roughly tablespoon sugar
handful of spinach
handful of baby kale
2 ice cubes

hit crush and then blend
or just turn on your blender if you don't have these functions

Flakey Lemon Salmon

          So some people are shocken when they find out that I do indeed eat fish, they assumed that because I'm a meat lover that I don't touch fish, and then there are the people that assume that I only eat fish and don't go near meat. I love tilapia and tune and salmon and others. This is my salmon recipe. It's relatively easy so here we go.

What you need:

a grill pan ( a normal pan works fine)
sea salt
lemon zest
sliced lemon (zest before slicing)
olive oil
salmon

Whatever sides you want

So spray or drizzle your olive oil on the heated pan. While waiting for it to heat up, zest your entire lemon and slice it up.

Lay the lemon slices on the grill and then lay down the salmon.

Sprinkle olive oil, lemon zest and sea salt on top of salmon.

Lay the slightly charred lemon slices on the slmon.

Put a lid on top and listen for the sizzle. It shouldn't take more than a minute, Check it to see if it releases, if it does flip it over.

Sprinkle lemon zest and sea salt on this side and lay lemons on top.

finish cooking, it's done when it flakes when you touch it.

Cutting back-veggie crust pizza and semi homemade pizza sauce

                 

   So I love pizza, and it's something I haven't really thought about...but trust me I have loved it just as much as the next guy. I had occasionally thought about making it myself, but since cutting down on my breads I couldn't bring myself to do it. That is until I finally decided to tackle cauliflower crust. I had been putting it off for a solid 5 months because I thought it would be complicated and intimidating.

I started thinking about it more the last few weeks and finally buckled down to look up recipes. But during my thinking phase my thought actually switched to my love of broccoli and this delicius chicken and broccoli pizza that I'd had once. So I wondered if I could do a cauliflower and broccoli crust. The first things to come up were broccoli crust and it just looked so good that I decided to just go right to that instead of the cauliflower crust, which I actualy did try and bombed at...trying again this weekend. So this is my pizza crust made from broccoli...and broccoli crust sounds a bit...like people wouldn't want to try it so I'm calling it veggie crust.

All the recipes I read incorporated two kinds of cheese into the crust. I might try that with vegan cheese, but I'm on a low sodium diet, so that will be a special occasion.

You will need:
Grater or food processor
2-3 heads of broccoli. 2 heads makes 3 cups
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder divided
1 teaspoon onion powder divided
2 teaspoons oregano divided
2 teaspoons basil divded
or any italian seasonings
small can tomato sauce

preheat oven to 350

I grab a container or a large cutting board and set up my grater in the container or on the cutting board. Rinse the broccoli and grate on the large holes. I grate down the stem a little bit.

take 3 cups and put in a microwave safe bowl or steamer. put plastic wrap on bowl and steam for 2-3 minutes in microwave.

Wait for the broccoli to cool and then dump into a cloth and wring it out. Squeeze out as much of the water as you can.

Dump broccoli into bowl and combine with 2 eggs, salt, pepper, garlic powder (save rest for sauce), onion powder (save rest for sauce), oregano and basil (also save the rest for sauce).

Stir until well combined. You can get your hands dirty if you want.

Line a baking sheet or a pizza pan with parchment paper and bake for 20-25 minutes.

While that bakes I cook up some toppings. You can use whatever you like. Cut up some peppers or onions. I drizzle some olive infused with tomato, basil, garlic, and oregano into a pan and cup up some chicken breast and broccoli to cook. Then I put a lid on that and wait until I can hear and smell it, checking on it for the chicken to get a nice brown and the broccoli to wilt. Grate some sea salt on top. Once it's done I break the chicken apart into bite size pieces.

I make my sauce. So far I've made it with a very small can of tomato sauce with as low sodium as I can find. I pour about a 1/4 cup or so into a bowl and mix with the rest of the seasonings.

Take out the crust, and top with the sauce and toppings of your choice. And I sprinkle the pizza with some more basil and oregano.

Bake at least 15 minutes, It's a forgiving pizza, so no need to sprint to the oven when the timer goes off.