Easy Homemade Pizza

 

• Pre-made crust (they also store well for future use)
• can of whole tomatoes, chopped clove garlic, basil, oregano, salt, pepper
• pizza toppings
• pizza cheese

 

 


oops I forgot the pepperoni... before I took this last picture


cook the tomatoes with the garlic and spices until enough liquid cooks out of the tomatoes for it to reach a sauce consistency...  I tear the tomatoes apart when I first dump them in the pot, do this by small pieces carefully or you'll squeeze tomato stuff all over yourself... lol

spread sauce on pizza crust, add toppings, and cheese, bake following directions on your pre-made crust.

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Grilled Mustard Chicken

Slather chicken with spicy brown mustard and mustard seeds

Salt and Pepper the chicken after you get it on the grill.

Yum

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Key Lime Cajun Mayo

I'm always looking for a new way to flavor fish... usually tilapia, because it's usually the cheapest...
Last night I mixed up some mayo, some key lime juice, some cajun spice mix, pepper, and sea salt, slathered the fish with that and baked it.  Yummy!

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Pork Roast in a Pot

Brown the pork roast in the pot with a little olive oil and some chopped fresh garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

Cover with water, add, carrots, onions, dried mushrooms, cook it all day so that it's so tender it falls apart. Make sure you keep enough water in the pot. Later on add some potatoes, and give them time to cook.


So here's what it all looks like in the pot when it's done cooking

Take most everything out of the pot, but leave a little bit of everything in the pot for making the gravy.


I use a soup ladle to scoop a bowl of the liquid out of the pot, and mix my flour into that using a pampered chef gravy whisk that is awesome, then I take a potato masher to all the stuff left in the pot, and then stir my flour mixture back into the pot. So the gravy comes out looking like this with little bits of the whole thing in it....
for this meal I also made some tricolor couscous

and stir fried some onions, greens, and savoy

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Chicken Quesadilla

This was just thrown together out of leftovers from a Chicken dinner consisting of Chicken tenders browned in a pan with a nice little sauce, sauteed peppers and onions, and portobello mushrooms.

The leftovers:

Leftover Chicken, peppers, onions & mushrooms are chopped on a gourmet spinach and vegetable flour tortilla, then topped with the shredded cheese and another tortilla, microwave for 1 minute, cut in fourth's or eighth's. Enjoy.

Egg White Omelets

Ever make a face when somebody says 'Egg White Omelet'? Try mine :)

ok, to get ready...

I spray my pan with Pam then add a little smart balance butter





Have all your ingredients ready:




My cat's love me when I make these, because they get the egg yolks.








Pour two egg whites into the skillet

Once the egg white begins to firm up, sprinkle a little chopped onion on one side





When the egg whites are firmed up to a certain degree, you should shake the skillet to make sure the omelet is not stuck to the pan. You may have to experiment with the temperature on your stove eye and practice some. It took me a while before I could do this consistently and with ease… On my current stove eye somewhere between 4 and 5 is the perfect temperature.

Then add a few spoonfuls of some previously micro-waved green giant creamed spinach





Add a slice of pepper jack cheese and fold over the omelet









If you are busy with other parts of a meal it is okay to set the skillet off the eye at this point as the omelet will continue to cook from the heat of the pan - the omelet is pretty much done but the pepper jack continues to melt.

Removing the omelet from the pan may also take you some practice. Make sure the omelet is not stuck to the pan, get your spatula under the omelet and take your pan to your plate and drag the omelet along with the spatula while tipping up your pan to facilitate the effort. Remember if you are cooking more omelets, and you dribble some buttery stuff down the outside edge of your pan… you’ll want to wipe that off the pan before placing the pan back on the stove… unless you like messy stove eyes lol… I don’t like to clean them myself. Also if you get any other bits of omelet left behind in the skillet and you are planning to make more omelets it is probably best to wipe out the pan with paper towels and begin again, with another spray of pam. If necessary, wash & dry the skillet and then begin again.

I garnished the omelet with a little shredded colby jack cheese, some real bacon bits, and a little fresh ground pepper.

This is one of my favorite egg white omelets but you can put anything you want in the omelet… experiment, and have fun. Our dinner last night was egg white omelets, frozen pancakes (microwaved), and thinly sliced apples.

They were so good I had to have another today. Today's egg white omelet was prepared the same but served with a frozen blueberry waffle cooked in the toaster oven and toast.