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I got home from work a little early today and when that happens I often spend the extra time in the kitchen. We still had plenty of the eggplant dish from 2 nights ago left over and I thought it would be pretty good on a pizza. In fact it was amazing on pizza, especially when I added some broccoli and cauliflower that I chopped up into small pieces and sauteed in olive oil. I just chopped up the fried eggplant slices into smaller pieces and gathered some of the artichoke mixture to use as well. Oh, and I added a few more kalamata olives too. For the sauce, I sauteed 2 cloves of minced garlic in olive oil, then added about half a bottle of Bionaturae® strained tomatoes, about 2 Tbs. of tomato paste, and about 1/2 tsp. each of dried oregano and salt. I used the pizza dough recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance, but replaced 1 cup of the flour with whole wheat flour. When it was all said and done I think I ate 5 slices (but hey, they were fairly small slices).
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That sounds great. None of the cheese substitutes for pizza ever seem all that appetizing, but this cheese-free pizza looks and sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing that! (Well, the idea, not the actual pizza. If you could find a way to do that too it would be more than appreciated!)
Do you use a pizza stone? I have VWaV, but was relunctant to make dough because every pizza stone I have seen says you can't really wash it and that just sounds kind of gross.
I have had a Pampered Chef pizza stone for over 3 years. You can scrape it and wash it in hot water, you just can't use soap because unglazed ceramic is porous. There's really no substitute for a pizza stone.
That pizza is marvelous looking. There's something so tasty about a cheeseless pizza chock full of veggies on top.
I really want a pizza stone, too..
Thanks everyone!
vegan1 - what karen said. I sprinkle some semolina (or cornmeal) on the bottom of my pizza peel so I rarely have problems with anything sticking to the stone. Then after it cools down I just brush it off. On the few occasions where something nasty sticks and gets baked on to it, one trick I use is to scrape off what I can then have at it with my power sander, then rinse if off well with plain water. If you'd rather not go through the trouble of using a stone though just make your crust into a rectangle and bake it on a sheet pan. It'll still be good.
Believe it or not a pizza stone also works perfectly when you roll out the pizza dough on some parchment paper and slide that on. I was skeptical at first, thinking it wouldn't get crispy like it does right on the stone, but I was wrong. And it makes cleaning up even easier.
good idea Mark. I may try that some time.
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