Fig Eats: Crazy Veggie Pizza
My husband and I have been on a great clean eating kick since Christmas. Even though I am the one usually interested in fitness, it was my husband who instigated turning over our new leaf. He started reading a book I’ve had for awhile but haven’t read (I have a bad habit of buying new books and stacking them in a corner while I read something else). The book was 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life by David Grotto. I first heard about Grotto and his book over on MizFit’s blog where he has done hilarious guest video posts, such as this one. Anyway, Brian was inspired by the book and shortly after Christmas he even went to the grocery store (we’re usually very 50′s traditional-type couple around here and I do all the shopping and cooking). Then he brought home all sorts of lovely clean foods and cooked for us every day until he went back to work (and has still cooked some on the weekends and made us steel cut oats many mornings).
Meanwhile, I ordered the newest book by Grotto: 101 Optimal Foods. We’ve only read a little of that one as we’re still exploring the first 101 foods. Over the weekend we decided to make a nice clean homemade pizza with what we had in the fridge. We came up with the lovely mess you see at the top there. You’ll see we only topped it with jalapeño slices. I like a little jalapeño but not so much has my husband so that side was his size.
It wasn’t a perfectly “clean” pizza. We did use a regular Boboli Thin Crust and we used a bit of Ragu Pizza Sauce (just a thin layer, though, in our defense). Can you see all the other stuff we layered on top of that? Well, let me see if I can remember: garlic, purple onion, olives, mushrooms, blue cheese, part-skim mozzarella, red pepper, spinach, cilantro, and of course jalapeños on the one side. I think I might be forgetting something, but that’s all I can see on the picture. Several of those are on the 101 foods list. Brian loves to make a meal with several of the 101 foods at once. When we first put that jumble of food in the oven I had my doubts. I was still a little wary of actually eating it when it came out. But it turned out to be delicious. Yay for mostly clean pizza!
Tags: clean eating, food, pizza, recipe
I didn’t realize he had books out! I will have to check them out. Thanks
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