Pizza Lovers!

Have you ever tried the pizza with a cauliflower crust? Being from Chicago, I was very skeptical, but it was actually quite good. I didn't get it firm enough the first time, but the taste was so good, I tried it a second.

Is this a store bought or homemade crust? Do you have a recipe? Sounds awesome! I go back to my hometown Chicago for a visit tomorrow-Tuesday...I am gonna need a distraction from all the glorious pizza options.

@orginal poster: If you're a fan of asparagus that's my new favorite pizza topping. Or eggplant--it's so meaty and nommm! My favorite pizza is: speghetti sauce, a huge layer of spinach, mozz cheese, asparagus and eggplant (cooked prior to baking in olive oil spray ang garlic) and some shaved parm and lemon juice to top it off. MMM!

Sometimes I'll just make a feta and olive oil pizza and dump a huge salad of greens (argula especially!!) on top and top that with balsamic vinegar.

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I was watching a program and they used a portabella mushroom for the crust. First they removed the stem placed pizza sauce, a serving of string cheese, and cut the stem to put on the pizza, 4 olives, and used turkey pepperoni (which is supposed to taste good). Then bake it at 350. It is supposed to b:glasses: e around 118 calories. Haven't tried it yet but sounds good if you like mushrooms.

Joseph's Lavash (100 calories and it's huge), store bought pizza sauce (40 calories for 1/4 cup), 1/2 cup low fat cheese (usually mix Cheddar and Mozzarella--about 70 calories), turkey pepperoni (70 calories)--YUMMY.

I also do buffalo chicken and barbecue chicken the same way (just changing the sauce and swap out the pepperoni for chicken).

bump.....for later. All sounds great...

all this talk about pizza I had to stop and get a little caesars on the way home. I had room in my calories, so 2 pieces for me!

Hungry Girl also makes Pizza Bella which is under 300 calories. You make the pizza out of a portabello mushroom cap, use low fat or fat free mozzarella, and turkey pepperoni and some sauce. I had it twice this week, and it was pretty tasty!

I make english muffin pizzas! They are awesome. I just take the healthy life or weight watchers english muffins, put a tablespoon of pasta on top, chop onions, peppers, and mushrooms, and use a little weight watchers cheese. Sometimes I splurge and put olives on there too. Just throw them in the the oven for maybe 5 min and then broil for like two min. Delicious! Super easy! And then you can stop yourself from making a whole pizza and feeling compelled to eat it all. This way you basically make it by the slice. They are awesome!

I LOVE PIZZA!!

I make my own crust with half unbleached flour and half whole wheat. I just follow the directions on the yeast package. I roll the crust out nice and thin and top it with smashed fire roasted tomatoes (hunts makes them) for my sauce and top with low fat mozzeralla. I like to season the top with pepper, garlic, and basil when I have it. Then I bake it until crisp. If I am in the mood for toppings I will load up the veggies.

Its not as much work as it looks like and completely worth it. I serve it to the family and they love it because it is good and don't even know it is good for them.

Here are two vegetarian pizza recipes that I have tried. Both are delicious. The first one is a perfect pizza margherita. I use only a dash of oil in the tomato sauce and half fat mozzarella and it is delicious. The whole thing comes in at about 550 cals (per pizza). http://vegetariansweettooth.blogspot.com/2011/01/perfect-pizza.html

The second recipe is a newer find. It is a filo based 'tart' but honestly it is a really good pizza substitute and it is about 420 cals for the whole thing. http://vegetariansweettooth.blogspot.com/2011/04/red-onion-tomato-and-mozzarella-filo.html

Enjoy!

You could try putting pesto on to replace the sauce and some roasted vegetables (i.e. artichokes, red onions, bell peppers, etc.). Kashi makes a pizza like that, but I think it would taste even better homemade!