It’s no secret, I love to cook, almost as much as a I love to eat - I think the two almost always go hand in hand. Both ‘T’ and I are pizza fans, we’re thin crust traditionalists - extra cheese, some pepperoni, possibly sausage and we’re happy - luckily pizza is one of those foods that’s just fun and simple to make.
Saul’s Foolproof Pizza
- 2 teaspoons of active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil (separated)
- 3 pinches of salt
- 1 cup of warm water (°115Fish )
- 2 1/2 cups of the flour
- Wake your yeast up, dissolve your sugar into the warm water, and sprinkle your yeast into the water (note: it’s best to use a bowl so you have some surface area to sprinkle on) lightly stirring till all the yeast is dissolved, let stand for 10-15 minutes at room temperature.
- In a large bowl, mix together your yeast mixture with the flour, salt and 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, I generally mix by hand, but a stand mixer with dough hooks is probably the smart choice, mix until smooth. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 450°
- Spread your dough on a pizza pan/cookie sheet/pizza stone, you want a somewhat even thickness overall, pinch around the edge to form your crust, spread liberally with sauce and topping of you’re liking and brush the crust with the remaining olive oil
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Bake for 15-25 minutes or until the bottom is a perfect golden brown. Slice and enjoy.
Honestly the best part of making your own pizza is that you can put ANYTHING you want on it, duck confit and asparagus, meatballs and sausage, steak and red skin potatoes - it’s all you baby!
So what is on you’re ultimate pizza?
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I’ve written about my love affair with Lightlife veggie products before, basically they make veggie alternatives to popular dishes – garlic chicken teryaki (which is excellent), chili, orange sesame chicken - and it turns out, Tex Mex, which I found on my recent Whole Foods excursion, so this morning I thought the Tex Mex would nicely round out (carbohydrate wise) my typical (3 days a week) omelet variation - I must say it was delicious - and even though I ate all three servings of the Tex-Mex the nutritional numbers where excellent.
- 3 egg whites (roughly 3.5g) - 50 calories, 0 fat, 0 cholesterol, 1.5 carb
- 1 package Tex-Mex - 150 calories, 0 fat, 0 cholesterol, 18g carb
- 28g Kraft fat-free Cheddar Cheese - 45 calories, 0 fat, 0 cholesterol, 1g carb
To save you from having you do the math. that’s 245 calories, and under 20 grams of carbs, That leaves a tiny bit of wiggle for some form of fiber, which in my case is a 1/4(ish) cup of Post Grapenuts which I graze on over the course of the morning.
In case you think I’m more obsessed about the numbers, than I am with the taste, you’re wrong - I’m absolutely obsessed with them equally - If I’m going to put the effort to prepare food, it’s going to be both delicious, AND good for me - I figure I wasted 35 years on food that wasn’t doing me any good, this seems the least I can do.
Eat well, enjoy!
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I’ve lambasted the American breakfast tradition before In general ‘We’ eat too much, and what we eat isn’t particularly good for us, that’s not to say that a slice of bacon or an egg yolk is bad for us, it’s about moderation, and portion control - two words that until very recently meant absolutely nothing to me.
I spent a little time reading labels and doing some trial and error cooking I came up with a delicious fulfilling breakfast that’s essentially guilt-free (I also should mention this is not my daily breakfast.. again, say it with me…moderation)
A Big White Omelet
- 85g of egg whites (carton egg whites work fine, if your cracking your own that’s the whites of about 3 large eggs )
- 28g of fat-free cheese shredded (Kraft makes both a cheddar and a mozzarella pre-shredded either of which are good, Cabot’s reduced fat cheese is far better, but you’ll have to shred it yourself)
- 30g of yellow or white onion chopped (I buy mine chopped)
- 10 cherry tomatoes halved
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They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I’ve never been sure who they are, but I’ve never really doubted that statement. Let’s take a look at what the a typical American breakfast might consists of:
- 2 Fried Eggs (Yolks up!)
- 3 Slices of Bacon
- 1 English Muffin / Butter
- 3 Ounces of Hash Browns
- 2 Cups of Coffee (w/ cream)
- 6 ounces of Orange Juice
Now you may argue that that’s not what YOU eat (good for you), but talk a stroll through a Denny’s or an IHop and you’ll realize that I’m not far off. I want to go on record that for 35 years of my life, I ignored what I ate, if it tasted good, it was good - restraint and moderation weren’t in my vocabulary, and I deluded myself that the good folks at Denny’s where serving me a balanced and well proportioned meal - I now know better - let’s take a ‘eyes-wide-open’ at that breakfast;
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