Who doesn’t love pizza? Especially on a Friday night after a long week. Historically the choice was always the same, regardless of whether we were in our place in Yuma and ordering from Papa Johns, on the road or at home ordering from the local Dominos we ordered the thin-crust, like a cracker crust with pepperoni, tomato, green pepper and onion.
The cracker crust concept is not a new one. My aversion to a thick crust (especially if it is stuffed with cheese) originated back to when I discovered that pizza doesn’t have to be a no-no health wise.
Recipes for Healthy Heart Cooking….
I remember being introduced to the Pita Pizza concept by author Anne Lindsay in her inaugural cookbook “The Lighthearted Cookbook” (1988). Anne had teamed up with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, to write a book that was “…appealing to the eye, sumptuous to the taste, and healthy for the heart” (Cliff Sinclair, President Canadian Heart Foundation).
I loved the fact that I could build a pizza on the fly ~ Anne’s recipe calls for cottage cheese and fresh mushrooms. In her notes she suggested any combination of “…sliced onion, sliced tomatoes….broccoli”. Broccoli? What? Love, love, love at first sight! To this day, I do try for the Green Theme!
Let’s build our own!
Obviously this is simple, but it is also fun! It is also an opportunity to clean out the vegetable crisper if you opt for the Hers (vegetarian) version.
Hers is pizza sauce, ramped up with extra garlic, dried oregano and basil; a suggestion of shredded mozzarella and maybe some feta; grated fresh warm, sliced red onion, chopped peppers, sliced zucchini and chopped broccoli or cauliflower.
His version keeps it straight up ~ pizza sauce doctored with extra garlic, dried oregano and basil; shredded mozzarella grated fresh parm, sliced red onion, chopped peppers and the good pepperoni and by that mean the one that is not pre-packaged but the fresh from deli counter pepperoni.
Why not build your own pita bread…
Yes you could go out and buy the Supermarket version. But I always ask myself, I wonder when this was really baked and how long has it been in this bag, and furthermore, what is in there to keep it in the bag, on the shelf, for so long????
Why not build your own pita bread?
Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven. Each pizza offers you an opportunity to artfully design your own pizza ~ and not rely on the Friday night pizza hotline!
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Be bold, be authentically you!
~ Donna
