Also, here’s a look at my husband’s plate from last night, complete with a sneak peak of the LASAGNA PIZZA! Best three hours I ever spent in the kitch, I tell you what. 180+ minutes to make, less than 8 minutes to eat. NO REGRETS.
Recipe coming soon!
Until then, anyone else eating pizza this holiday weekend? Maybe on the grill? Share, share!
Tapenade Pizza from Cooking Vegan by Vesanto Melina & Joseph Forest (2012; page 174). The fussy-eating cynic in me was at first wary of this recipe - but it totally won me over! The husband’s also a big fan of this pie.
I really like the dough recipe in Cooking Vegan, too - a little thinner than I’m used to (but not thin-thin; anyone have a good thin crust recipe they’d like to share? PLEASE AND THANK YOU!), with a nice, chewy texture.
Too bad there are only four pizza recipes in Cooking Vegan. There should be a minimum pizza requirement in all vegan cookbooks, don’t you think? Like a dozen. At least! EVEN IN THE CUPCAKE AND ICE CREAM COOKBOOKS. Be creative vegan chefs, I have faith in you.
vegan fav pizza from jason’s organic pizza cafe, point pleasant nj. hummus, kalamata olives, artichokes, & mozzarella daiya.
Just sayin’.
VEGAN PIZZA TIME!
today’s special: sun dried tomato infused whole wheat crust topped with organic fresh local tomato, katamata olives fresh from the haight street farmers market, grilled artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, crimini mushrooms, lots of garlic, and arugula! topped with mozzarella daiya. which, I have come to the conclusion, is the best tasting vegan cheese brand by a long shot. also, super super stoked on those tomatoes. they are the very first local organic ones I have found this year. summer is a-coming!
The husband and I started working on our garden yesterday! SO EXCITING!!!!
Look What We Made! Calzones! Raw Tiramisu!
Self-esteem requires that one take a moment to brag when one does something awesome. Here are two delicious things that were recently born in my house. If someone could come teach me to take photos of food, that would be great, ok thanks.
Awesome Thing #1: Ginormous Calzones
My husband Danny made these beauties, on a weeknight no less. They’re filled with a tofu-cashew-olive ricotta (recipe from Veganomicon with kalamatas thrown in; leave out the salt), broccoli and homemade seitan saute, and a smidge of Daiya. OMG YUM can we get married again? I am the luckiest person.
Awesome Thing #2: Cafe Gratitude’s Raw Tiramisu
I taught you how to cope with the impending loss of CG, and now here’s me doing it! I made bomber, delicious, raw tiramisu. It took lots of planning (including steps begun 48 hours before I wanted to eat), weird ingredients (Irish moss, lecithin, raw cacao powder), and like 4 hours to make, but it was SO worth it.
Best new thing I learned: Making my own coconut milk! Just buy one of those Thai young coconuts, hack it open, put both the water and the flesh/meat (ick words) in the blender, and swoon.
I went to Pazzo with my sis for dinner. There veg pizza is basically the only vegan item on their menu. Thankfully, it’s so freaking delicious. Packing some up to bring to work tomorrow.
Thick-Crust Whole Wheat Pizza with Vegan Cheese, Broccoli, Kalamata Olives, and Crushed Red Peppers, from Jalino’s.
GET IN MY BELLY.
☮ Neville
![I love pizza. first time making whole-wheat crust! plus I added rosemary for some pizzaz. topped it with basil and sun dried tomato sauce, garlic, arugula, mushrooms, kalamata olives, and follow your heart vegan monterey jack cheese. YUM. washed it down with homemade kombucha.
[Another yummy submission from pipperipembo! - ed.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2cs0vX1Ml1qi9raio1_500.jpg)
I love pizza. first time making whole-wheat crust! plus I added rosemary for some pizzaz. topped it with basil and sun dried tomato sauce, garlic, arugula, mushrooms, kalamata olives, and follow your heart vegan monterey jack cheese. YUM. washed it down with homemade kombucha.
[Another yummy submission from pipperipembo! - ed.]
![Pizza from Italy! I am so lucky to live just a few steps from the best pizzeria (Spillo) in my city, remember that if you will ever visit Treviso (near Venice). Every time I go there the pizza maker (he’s from Naples so he knows what he’s doing) proposes me something different and puts a lot of toppings to make up for the lack of mozzarella :) last time I got this beauty: sun dried tomatoes, black kalamata olives, basil and fried eggplant..so good!
Beatrice
[Authentic Italian pizza, nicely done Beatrice! - ed.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29ho7qtZd1qi9raio1_1280.jpg)
Pizza from Italy! I am so lucky to live just a few steps from the best pizzeria (Spillo) in my city, remember that if you will ever visit Treviso (near Venice). Every time I go there the pizza maker (he’s from Naples so he knows what he’s doing) proposes me something different and puts a lot of toppings to make up for the lack of mozzarella :) last time I got this beauty: sun dried tomatoes, black kalamata olives, basil and fried eggplant..so good!
Beatrice
[Authentic Italian pizza, nicely done Beatrice! - ed.]
First attempt at making pizza :3
one has fried eggplant, tomato sauce, &daiya… the other has sautéed kale &onions with a spread made from kalamata olives, white beans, lemon, &olive oil (^_^)
not the prettiest, but it sure was yummy!!!
Vegan pizza,
Vegan butternut squash PIZZA from the Green Light cafe in Asheville, North Carolina. Spelt crust topped with layers of soft butternut squash, melted daiya cheese, caramelized onions, and clamata olives! So good!
I would pay someone to make this for me!
hummus pizza
Hummus pizza, hell yes!
So been eating some leftovers the last few days, along with some previously made, just cooked items. This is one of the items I made, unbaked for the freezer - some hummus pizzas. Similar to my first blog entry, out of open faced pita breads, as crusts, and on these, instead of tomato based sauce, I used a fresh hummus I made - yum. Topped with lot’s of good stuff like sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, artichoke bottoms, and tofu crumbles mixed with nutritional yeast. And just because - a sprinkling of vegan cheese to finish them off. For lunch today - I had one of these (baked two up the other night), and a nice arugula salad!
The Chili Hummus - 4 servings, approx 109 calories per serving
1 cup garbanzo beans cooked, smashed up or pureed
1.5 tbsp olive oil
3/4 tsp chili powder of choice, or paprika if you want less spicy
If you need to mash/puree the beans, do so. Add the other ingredients, and refrigerate.Hummus Pizza - 360 calories at 4 servings (1 serving per pizza), approx 20 min prep.1 cup chili spiced hummus (see recipe below)
4 artichoke bottoms chopped
3/4 cup pressed and crumbled extra firm tofu
2 tbsp nutritional yeast sundried tomatoes, sliced and soaked
1/2 cup vegan shredded cheese (I used Daiya mozzarella)
2 pitas, sliced open faced, for 4 personal pizzas
4 smashed calamatta olives
4 chopped mushrooms of choice, cooked down.(pre cook in water or broth)
16 pieces of baby spinach
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix together the crumbled tofu and the yeast, set aside.
Slice pita breads open faced, and spread hummus on each one. Sprinkle chopped artichokes over hummus. Sprinkle smashed olives over this. Then place 4 pieces of spinach on each pizza. Sprinkle over that, the crumbled tofu mixed with the yeast. Sprinkle the sliced sundried tomatoes & the cooked mushrooms. Top with the shredded cheese.Bake at 350 approx 10 minutes. Serve with a green salad.
(Source: yearinveggies)
I made pizza for dinner. Homemade dough, homemade sauce, green bell peppers, red onion, mushrooms, and kalamata olives. Half with Daiya mozz and half without.
Yes you are, vegan pizza. YES YOU ARE.
