Tasty Bites: Pizza Margherita

By Candy, RN (Steele the Day)

This is one of my favorites because it’s so simple and I always have the ingredients on hand. With the end of summer, I’m finding myself with more basil and tomatoes than I can find recipes for, but after a 30 mile bike ride today, all I wanted was pizza! You can make this with my very favorite crust (I use half whole wheat and half white flour) or you can buy an already prepared crust, which I did in this case. I used a gluten-free crust I’d purchased with a coupon, and was pleasantly surprised with how good it tasted.

Goat cheese is not a usual ingredient for this classic dish, but it added a wonderful creaminess to each bite. I was able to use less mozzarella this way, as goat cheese is less fatty than mozzarella. The flavors in this dish blend together beautifully.

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Tasty Bites: Panic Pizza

By Candy, RN (Steele the Day)

Why panic? Because yesterday Ginny sent me a message “Are you going to have a post for me tomorrow?” YIKES! Somehow between trying to get my computer humming again and Thursday, time slipped away. And when time slips away, I fall back on pizza.

I went to the photo archives and sure enough, I found one of my favorites. Add to that the fact that I keep pizza dough in the refrigerator most of the time, thanks to Pioneer Woman. Up until I “met her” (I wish), I could never make pizza dough right. So with a couple of modifications, here’s my honey-wheat pizza dough stand-by. It’s supposed to keep in the refrigerator for three or four days, and I may or may not have used it after 10 days and it turned out just fine.

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