Cauliflower Pizza Crust is Surprisingly Delicious

Day 1 of cycle 2 started with sleeping in, eating oatmeal for the first time in 17 days, and watching Law & Order: SVU while I ate it. Once that was over, KJ and I went to the grocery store to buy ingredients for pizza, and then the gym and worked ourselves into puddles, in preparation for pizza-eating later.

Mmm...pizza...

Since my friend Kris was interested in this next part of my day, this one's for her. Our twist on making pizza tonight involved using a head of minced cauliflower, grated Swiss cheese, 2 eggs and seasonings (garlic, basil, oregano, salt & pepper) to make the crust. It smelled delicious, and it looked awesome. For anyone who who is trying to cut down on bread/carbs, I highly recommend using this recipe for your own home made pizza crust or garlic fingers. We doubled up the recipe and made a pizza the size of a cookie sheet because we were both famished and hadn't had lunch. Plus, it's cauliflower!

Food processor: 1
Cauliflower: 0

For our toppings, I used 1/2 a cup of standard store-bought pizza sauce, taco-seasoned ground turkey (leftover from our lettuce tacos), sliced white mushrooms, lean ham, 1 cup of mozzarella, Butterball turkey pepperoni, sweet orange pepper and red onion.

Sooooon...

At this point, the crust had been in the oven on 450F for 20 minutes to crisp up and solidify, and then was taken out to cool before being dressed up for round 2 of baking. I reset the oven to 350F and baked the pizza for 20 more minutes, then finished it off under the broiler for a couple minutes, and voila!

Who would have thought that cauliflower would make a crust that tastes so delicious? And with a food processor doing all the mincing, it was easy! Much simpler, faster and cleaner than making a flour crust. No waiting for it to rise, etc. Just bake, cool, top with pizza stuff, bake, eat.

Of course, eating goes straight to my ass...

Tomorrow's plan is to paint our bedroom with paint we've had so long, we had to take it back to the paint store to be re-shaken. Fingers crossed that today's weight training doesn't make me so sore or weak tomorrow that my arms fall off after doing all the edge work. Either way, it's getting painted. I crave change!

And chicken nuggets...but I'll settle for change.