After nearly sleeping in- well, sort of, I snapped this balmy autumn greeting. A sweet bubby has been suffering with a bit of a tummy upset these past two days, and woke a little early this morning with a present for her mumma before going back to sleep for a bit longer.
So many nappies! Poor bubby though, nothing worse than seeing someone so tiny go through discomfort.
The mini human vacuum will be under a watchful mumma's eye in future to see what she is actually consuming on her crawling adventures!
Hubby is currently on his way home by train from a day at uni. As it's way past our dinner time, I decided earlier to make the girls a healthy pizza base option I spied on Facebook yesterday...
Cauliflower Pizza Base:
1/2 head of cauliflower
4 tbsp almond meal
1 egg
pinch salt & pepper
fresh parsley
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 200 C.
In a food processor, blitz cauliflower until crumbly. transfer to a mixing bowl and add other ingredients until well combined.
Place on a well greased and lined pizza tray- spreading out as you go, and smoothing with a spatula.
Bake for approx. 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
Topping:
A generous amount of roast pumpkin wedges (or, steamed pumpkin that is then fried).
Fresh basil leaves.
1 avocado, sliced into wedges.
A heaped tbsp basil pesto (my homemade pesto of course!)
120gms fetta, crumbled.
Lemon juice.
50gms of cheddar cheese,slices (2) cut into 1/4's- optional.
Dollop some pesto evenly around the pizza base and spread. Top with cooked pumpkin, basil leaves, avocado slices, crumbled fetta and cheddar cheese and cheddar cheese slices. Sprinkle with lemon juice before baking for a further 10-15 minutes. Carefully cut into 4 and slide off each slice.
It was a megga hit! Will I do it again. Yep! But with some tweaks of course :)
These simple ingredients make a yummy, low carb, low sugar base.
The base fresh from the oven. Smells so good!
The toppings are on! This is pre-oven, minus the cheddar cheese.
And this is baked, with cheddar cheese strips. Tempting a fussy teen and encouraging new tastes means adding ingredients you know they like.
It's a bit delicate to remove the base, but each slice remained intact. I will probably add either more almond meal or egg to the base next time. Or, just buy grease proof paper as it's a little tougher than plain baking paper.
A simple, but no doubt tempting post to satisfy you. May I say- this pizza is Dee.Vine!
Now, this tired mumma is in for an early-ish night. Until next time, thanks for reading :)
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