Falafel Pizzas

So I was sitting with the girls last Sunday planning out the menu for the week.  We had some falafel that we got for sandwiches a week or so ago and I said how about falafel pizza.  At that point I was thinking of just taking some dough or a bagel or something like that and using falafel as a topping or something like that.  It would be like an open-face falafel sandwich which as I think about it might be a great idea for the future.  Duff take note.  Either way, Friday came and I was trying to think about how to do it then I thought why not make the falafel the crust.  It would not really hold up like a real pizza but it could serve as a base.  That was the start of what became falafel pizzas.

Origin:  Duff's twisted mind

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup of salted butter, melted
• 2 green onions, chopped
• 1/2-1 cup broccolli, chopped
• 1 tbs butter
• Falafel
• hummus, garlic infused
• Feta
• parmesean cheese
• spinach, raw

Directions:  Preheat oven to 400

1. In a small frying pan, cook the onions, broccolli and tbs butter till the vegetables are tender crisp.  ~5min.
2. Coat small ramekins with brushed butter.
3. Smush falafel in the bottom to make crust.
4. Add layer by layer in order broccolli and onion mix, feta, hummus.
5. Sprinkle with parmesean.
6. Top with spinach leaves.
7. Cook in oven at 400F for 7 min.
8. Grab a fork and enjoy.

As you can see this worked real well with Cheap Red Wine.  It was a fine vegetarian meal and only took about 30 min to prepare.  If there were any thing to change maybe some diced tomatoes and olives to add to the flavor.  I was originally thinking of topping with tabouleh but Food Lion had not heard of this ancient delight.  Either way, Rae loves it so the recipe definitely makes the book.

Homemade Pizza Experiment: Frankenstein Pizza

So there we were, Rae and I working on a Pizza.  I could have gone real easy like dough, sauce and some mozzarella.  I had the ingredients and it could have been done quick.  Besides, AOTS was coming on and that is Awesome.  No, the menu for the day said Pizza Experiment.  Sure I am a chemist and experiment every day but there is no reason for ending the research when I leave work.  So I opened the refrigerator and we were off.

Origin:  From the minds of Duff and Rae

Ingredients: 

•  2 beef hot dogs, sliced
• 5 slices of turkey bacon, sliced
• 4 slices of american cheese chopped into 1/4" squares
• feta cheese
• 1/4 block Cream cheese, chopped into small cubes
• shredded mozzarella cheese
• shredded Italian blend cheese
• pizza dough
• pizza or tomato sauce

Directions:

1. Prepare dough per instructions.
2. In a frying pan with a little bit of oil fry the hot dogs and turkey bacon.
3. In a mixing bowl add cheese together.
4. Spread sauce, meat and cheese and bake for appropriate time.

Wow, what an amazing combination.  Of course there was more shredded cheese on the counter than in the mixing bowl but that is what make the charm to this Frankenstein like pizza.  Rae had a lot of fun with it and it was delicious.  This definitely makes the book.