Recipe Post!!

                                                                    Cauliflower Pizza Crust

For those of you who don't know, I'm insulin resistant or pre-diabetic. I am always trying to find ways to cut out carbs of foods that I really like. I found a recipe for a cauliflower pizza crust so I tried it.The original recipe is posted here but I made just a few modification.

 Ingredients:

1 head of cauliflower
1 egg
1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper


As you can see... there is no cauliflower in this picture nor eggs. Yeah.. I can already riced the cauliflower and used the last egg that morning. So I replaced the egg with flax seed. Go me!

*Egg replacement
1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed
3 Tablespoons water.

Mix together. Equals 1 egg

                                                                               Preheat the oven to 450

 1) Cut off the florets from the head. Keep them in bite size pieces. 

 2) Using a food processor (Don't laugh at my tiny food processes) process the cauliflower until it looks like grains of rice.

This can be used as a replacement for regular rice

                                                                          

 3) Once the cauliflower has been all riced, place into a microwave safe bowl. Cover the bowl tightly with a lid or plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 6-7 mins. Do no add water. It will help to cut down on the cauliflower taste and smell.

If you have read some of my other recipe blog posts you know that we do not own a microwave. So I used our rice cooker and steamed the cauliflower.

Can you see it sitting on my rice cooker

 

4) Once the cauliflower has been steamed place the cauliflower in a thin kitchen towel and squeeze it to death! You want to get all the water out that you can!

I ended up using two kitchen towels. 

 The squeezed rice!

 5) Add in the cheese

6) Add in the seasonings

I didn't add in the fennel seed... because we didn't have any. We did though have this amazing Italian seasoning that Justin got from The Spice House.
We get all of our spices from there, cheap and amazing!  

 My replacement egg!

7) Add in the egg

 8) Mix all together

9) Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

 10) Shape the "dough" into a pizza shape.. I guess. The dough did not make nearly as much as I thought. I tried to show my hand as a guide at how big it was. Keep the crust between 1/4-1/3 of an inch thick.

11) Bake for 15-20 mins or until the crust is golden brown. 

 12) Place all toppings on the pizza. They need to be cooked already since the pizza is going under the broiler.

13) Broil until the cheese is melted

14) Tada!! My pizza!
I wasn't too stoked that the edges burnt.

 It made enough for Justin and I to have two slices each. Was it amazing.. No. Would I eat it. Yes! Justin didn't like it because the crust wasn't "doughy." Well... Duh! It's cauliflower not flour. I think I'm going to retry it and use an actual egg and cook the cauliflower for longer to see if that helps. The crust tastes like the Italian seasoning which was wonderful and covered the cauliflower taste.

Double Date Night and Ryan's Graudation

A couple weeks ago we got together with our friends Dustin and Nicole and spend the evening bowling, playing in the arcade, and eating ice cream with fake mustaches!

That's right.. I won with a whole 105

Last weekend, Justin and I drove up to Provo to go to Ryan's graduation. I know I keep saying Ryan,  but everyone else knows him as Walter. I'm sorry, he will also be Ryan to me. :)

We drove up Friday afternoon and spent a few hours with the family. Then we drove to BYU and watched his graduation. We left early, we had already been there for a hour and a half and they had just gotten through Ryan's college only.... Yeah... we were ready to go. We were squished in the chairs in the Marriott Center and it was dinner time. Ryan snuck out too. All over a good day! Saturday my grandmother had a big picnic for all of the family and it was great to see everyone. Justin and I took Ryan with us and we went up to Ikea before we left for home. We needed a new kitchen table, one that wasn't so tall and big. We grabbed a few kitchen items that we needed too. All over a good day!

We were a little squished... Just a little

We were bored!

 Had to stop at our favorite restaurant that we can no longer go to because of how far away we are.

 You never eat the crust at a pizza buffet!

 Ryan... Silly Boy

 Bahahaha the sign at our ghetto hotel.

 Thanks for all those towels!

 Leslie at breakfast!

 

Ryan and I at the picnic!

 

Blog post update!

Man I suck at updating the blog! I really need to be better at this :)

Let's see, what do I have pictures of that I can talk about in our life.

Justin and I went up the mountain in February to do an inspection and of course it was snowing and we got our second flat tire on an inspection. Instead of a cow grate, it was a rock. Yeah... a rock got shoved up in there and made the tired go flat. Luckily the tire was still under warranty and it hadn't warn too much from the first flat tire, so only that one had to be replaced.

In March my co worker and I held an instrument fund raiser were we took broken instruments, gave it to local artists and they fixed them up. We then auctioned them off and used the money to buy instruments for our program.

April we went down to Mesquite so Justin could do some inspections and we went to one of the casinos and ate at the buffet and played in the arcade and found an actual penny slot machine (one that actually did 1 credit at a time and not 40)
I won a whole $1.07! I gained 7 cents... don't be jealous :)

Our stand carts came in at school and I spent a Friday putting those together.

At the end of the month, we went to Provo to watch my brother Ryan graduate and, well, if we were up in Provo anyway, we hit Ikea and picked up a few things that we've needed and wanted.  We picked up some new dishes, kitchen things, a new light cover, and a brand new kitchen table and chairs. The table and chairs aren't dry yet so I haven't taken pictures but I will as soon as they are done.

                                                 The new light fixture that we bought!

A little preview of the table. I thought the knot left a really cool pattern in the table leg. I can't wait for everything to dry so we can move it into the kitchen.

:)