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Game Day: Pizza Puffs

01 Friday Feb 2013

Posted by BakedNorthwest in Appetizers, Easy, Entertaining, Events

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black olives, cheddar, cheese, egg, flour, mini pepperoni, mushrooms, pizza, puffs

Pizza Puffs

I think the only thing I like about football games is the opportunity to make awesome finger foods and appetizers to drink with copious amounts of tasty beer. Unfortunately, we tend to do things like go skiing on football days, so I haven’t made as many delicious things as I would like…

When I saw this quickie recipe in Southern Living I had to make it right away since:
A.) Pizza is probably my favorite food
B.) This recipe is super easy to make
C.) They come out as cute tiny minis!

Pizza Puffs

Recipe
Pizza Puffs
Adapted from Southern Living
Makes 24 Puffs

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup (4 oz.) shredded mozzarella and/or cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup sauteed mushrooms
  • 1/4 cup sliced black olives
  • 1/2 cup mini pepperoni
  • Vegetable cooking spray
  • Jarred pizza sauce, warmed

Preparation

  1. Preheat oven to 375°. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and garlic salt in a large bowl. Whisk in milk and egg. Stir in cheese, mushrooms, olives, and pepperoni. Let batter stand 10 minutes, and stir until blended. Coat cups of a 24-cup mini muffin pan well with cooking spray. Spoon batter into muffin cups. Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until puffed and golden. Serve with warm pizza sauce.

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

14 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by BakedNorthwest in Bloggerific, Healthy, Main Dish

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cauliflower, cauliflower crust pizza, cheese, marinara, mozzarella, olives, pepperoni, peppers, pizza, tomato

Delicious toppings on Cauliflower Crust Pizza.

If I were to eat one thing for the rest of my life, it would probably be pizza. Not because pizza is so damn delicious, but because you can do so much with it. There are so many possibilities – thai pizza, mexican pizza, greek pizza, buffalo chicken pizza, veggie pizza, meaty pizza…I could go on and on and on. I even had gyro pizza once, and it was phenomenal.

Then there’s the crust. Thin crust, thick crust, flatbread, chicago style, deep dish, STUFFED CRUST! SO.MANY.CHOICES.

Cauliflower Crust – lots of flavor and added kick in there!

But wait…Cauliflower crust?!? Seems immoral. Not okay. But at the same time, you realize you are instantly intrigued. Pizza that is…somewhat healthy? Practically guilt-free? A vegetable crust? No way. You just have to try it for yourself.

Cauliflower Crust – Super flavorful and surprisingly delicious.

You wouldn’t even know this pizza had a healthy crust!

Recipe

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Recipe from Eat.Drink.Smile.

Serves 2-4 (depends on if you want leftovers!)

ingredient

1 cup cooked, riced cauliflower
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp crushed garlic
1/2 tsp garlic salt
olive oil (optional)

pizza sauce, shredded cheese and your choice of toppings

directions:

To “Rice” the Cauliflower:
Take 1 large head of fresh cauliflower, remove stems and leaves, and chop the florets into chunks. Add to food processor and pulse until it looks like grain. Do not over-do pulse or you will puree it. (If you don’t have a food processor, you can grate the whole head with a cheese grater). Place the riced cauliflower into a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 8 minutes (some microwaves are more powerful than others, so you may need to reduce this cooking time). There is no need to add water, as the natural moisture in the cauliflower is enough to cook itself.

One large head should produce approximately 3 cups of riced cauliflower. The remainder can be used to make additional pizza crusts immediately, or can be stored in the refrigerator for up to one week.

To Make the Pizza Crust:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup cauliflower, egg and mozzarella. Add oregano, crushed garlic and garlic salt, stir. Transfer to the cookie sheet, and using your hands, pat out into a 9″ round. Optional: Brush olive oil over top of mixture to help with browning.

Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven. To the crust, add sauce, toppings and cheese. Place under a broiler at high heat just until cheese is melted (approximately 3-4 minutes).

Enjoy!

*Note that toppings need to be precooked since you are only broiling for a few minutes.

Seattle Happy Hour: Cicchetti

24 Friday Feb 2012

Posted by BakedNorthwest in Restaurants, Seattle

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anchovies, beef tartare, castelvetrano olives, cicchetti, cocktails, fried cheese, pecorino, pizza, popcorn, restaurants, saganaki, seattle, truffle, wine, wings

I feel like Cicchetti’s happy hour has been on my “list” of places to go FOREVER. Once I arrived, I knew I had been missing out. After getting our first few small plates, I mentally added it to my list of favorite Seattle Happy Hours.

The entrance to Cicchetti.

Cicchetti is the younger sibling to what many consider a Seattle classic, Serafina. It’s been years since I’ve been to Serafina, but it’s a great Italian place to bring a date to. Cicchetti felt more chill to me, it was a super relaxing happy hour. Now for the food…

The Happy Hour Menu, castelvetrano olives, and the "Pear-a-dise" cocktail.

To start, Castelvetrano (the BEST) olives, and the Pear-a-dise cocktail (for a Happy Hour cocktail, that shit was STRONG). Already in heaven right here.

Fried pecorino with green olive, red onion, parsley

Up next: Fried pecorino cheese. If you know me, you have heard 2390482094283 times that I have been to Greece and my favorite dish in the entire universe is Saganaki (a greek fried cheese). This may be my favorite happy hour plate EVER. It was so good. I mean, how can you go wrong with fried cheese? Then you add some olives on there…God, I can’t even handle it. I want to eat the above picture right now.

The special happy hour pizza of the day, truffle popcorn, and wings.

After my fried cheese binge, we ordered some more. At this point we had no natural daylight left and the bar got super dark. Please bear with this picture I tried to brighten up, it doesn’t do the food justice!

1. You can’t go wrong with $1 truffle popcorn.

2. Wings weren’t on the happy hour menu, but me and a certain someone find wings hard to resist. Especially when they are fancy wings with house made date molasses…

3. The happy hour pizza of the day…the blackboard said “local hedgehog…mushrooms, ricotta, fried sage.” Since hedgehog was written above mushrooms, I was secretly hoping to get REAL hedgehog on the pizza. When I asked the server if that’s what we were getting, she tried to be nice and said, “No…hedgehog mushrooms. But you’re not the first person to ask that…” Silly me.

4. Not pictured: Beef tartare (so good) and anchovies (so gross). My “anchovy connoisseur” friend said they were delish though. He made me try one. I hate anchovies. I was burping up salty fishy grossness an hour later when I really was hoping to be burping up the taste of hedgehog (mushrooms). TMI? yeah, probably…

Despite the minor anchovy debacle, still one of the best happy hours in town!

Cicchetti

121 E Boston St
Seattle WA, 98102

Happy hour Tue – Fri from 5PM – 6:30PM.
206.859.4155

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