I thought I would be clever tonight and sneak some spinach into Doug’s Cheese Pizza. As I’ve explained before, Doug will only eat Cheese Pizza – there is no other kind. So since we always add spinach into our smoothies – and never taste it at all – I thought I could add it to his pizza and he wouldn’t even know it was there.
So while he was out back cutting the lawn, I dumped the pizza sauce into the Vitamix and tossed in great handfuls of spinach. When I blended it all together, well, that’s when I realized that the tomato sauce was turning a sickening greenish-brown color! DUH!
I didn’t have any other sauce on hand so I figured maybe I could cover it up with a bunch of cheese and he wouldn’t notice. I thought the pizzas looked pretty good!
OK maybe they didn’t look that great. That’s mine on the right. I went “no cheese” tonight since I found out last week that just a little teeny bit of cheese was fine and maybe just maybe I could go completely Cheese Free. I sauteed the mushrooms in my non-stick pan and didn’t use any oil – the mushrooms turned out great! So mental note – you don’t need oil to saute mushrooms – you just have to keep stirring them so they don’t stick to the pan.
Anyway, back to my story.
When Doug came inside the house the pre-cooked pizzas were sitting on the counter and Doug spotted the green/brown sauce right away. He was NOT HAPPY. In fact he was kind of Pissed. But since he is so good-natured and willing to try anything I cook, Pissed quickly downgraded to Miffed.
We sat down to eat our cooked pizzas and after just one bite we looked at each other – the spinach was a HUGE MISTAKE! You could TOTALLY taste it and it didn’t taste so great. In addition, a Cheese Free pizza just does not taste the same. MAYBE it would have been ok if I hadn’t messed up the sauce. I’m not sure why the spinach wasn’t good – last week I put sauteed spinach on top of my pizza and I really liked it. But when I blended it into the sauce it was gross. Anyway, I really messed up dinner tonight but Doug eventually said it wasn’t too bad – I think he wants that to be off the record though.
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for the cheeseless pizza next time try no sauce, spread refried beans, salsa and guacamole on it, bake, then top with shredded lettuce, tomatoes and olives.
Too funny! Mike and I do homemade pizzas every Sunday. I was trying to be really creative one week and make a sauce out of bunch of sorrel. It maintained its green color but the taste was just not right.
Oh yeah, experiment with the sauces before giving up on cheeseless pizzas! I like the idea Erica had about the refried beans, etc.. If you want to try a pureed spinach sauce again, try combining blanched spinach with blanched arugula along with some really good olive oil and minced garlic. I’ve made a pureed sauce like that for pasta and it was super delicious! I bet it would be great on a pizza…