My munchkin requested pizza for dinner last night. Since I hadn’t planned on making anything in particular, I thought it would be an easy enough request to fill, even though I had no pizza sauce or dough on hand. I whipped out my trusty bread machine and made the dough for the crust, using the recipe in the book that came with the bread maker. That recipe said that I should prebake the crust, which I did, but will definitely never do again. Baking it twice was just too long and made for one tough crust.

Since I had no pizza sauce, Emma had hers plain topped with some Daiya mozzerella from the freezer (I let it thaw before using).  Essentially she had cheese and bread for dinner, but she loved it.  She also had ate some salad and a plum, so that sort of made up for the pizza.  For the adult pizza, I used some vegan pesto that I had in the freezer as the sauce.  This particular one I got from a stand at the farmer’s market, but you could make your own or use whatever sauce you want.  I then topped the pizza with some very lightly sauteed zucchini, red onion and broccoli.  Had I not prebaked the crust, I wouldn’t have sauteed it but I thought it best to soften them a tad before putting in the oven since it all would have finished baking at different times.  On top of the veggies, I added the Daiya.  Bake at 400 degrees for about 8-10 minutes, or until the cheese is melty.