Easy &Delish!! 

This one needs no intro, look at the picture... 

 

French Bread Pizza ~ 4 servings

You will need; 1 loaf of French Bread or any bread of choice.
Spinach Artichoke dip (recipe below) and grilled veggies:
* red onion
* portobello mushroom
* 1 of ea red & green bell pepper
* 1 bag of fresh spinach
* 2 minced garlic cloves
Olive oil

Spinach Artichoke Dip

 * frozen chopped spinach; thawed

 * 1 jar of marinated artichokes

 * 1 chipotle pepper in adobe sauce

 * lemon juice

 * 8oz cream cheese

 * Parmesan cheese

 * 2T nutritional yeast

 * fresh parsley

 * cracked black pepper

Dip_How2:

1. Combine all ingredients and blend in food processor or blender; process until smooth or desired consistence.
2. Transfer Dip to a ramekin for baking, bake in a 350 oven until bubbly; approx. 10-15mins

Pizza_How2:

1. Quarter bread loaf and drizzle with olive oil. Sandwich bread pieces between two sheet pans, this will make allow bread to toast without burning and shrink in size a little. Broil in oven for 5mins.
2. While bread is toasting, saute red onion, bell peppers and mushrooms together with minced garlic and olive oil, until soft. Set sauteed veggies aside and proceed with spinach.

**TIP: Sauteing veggies in batches makes for a faster cook time and a helps with the layering of veggies in the following steps.


3. Once bread is toasted, set aside to cool enough to handle. Smear spinach artichoke dip on each bread quarter, just enough for an even spread.

4. Begin layering veggies on bread. (Not in this particular order;  have fun building at this point)
[In the image this was the layer sequence]

Sauteed Spinach
red onion
Bell peppers
mushrooms
I added  a few slices of fresh tomato, a dusting of Parmesan cheese, Queso Fresco and cracked black pepper.

Once pizzas are assembled, return to broiler for an additional 5 mins until tomatoes are blistered and cheese melted.

...A simple Spring Salad rounds out this meal.

Spring Salad
2 handfuls torn green leaf lettuce
1/4 sliced cucumber
1/2 avocado
1/2 roma tomato
1 handful carrots
1 handful red grapes
drizzle of bottled sweet balsamic dressing

------------------ Soundtrak of the Day ------------- 

Travie McCoy - Back Home

What should I do with this can of Pumpkin?, one may ask... Well long story short : I have been bitten by the bread bug again. I recently made the Honey Whole Wheat Bread and Pumpkin Pretzel Bread. Humpty Pumpkin Pretzel Bread was a glorious accident. I eyed the can-o-pumpkin and used about 1/3 c in the recipe then I started shaking and adding other sweet and savory ingredients into the recipe, it resulted in a nice orange hue of a dough.

Pumpkin Pretzel Bread

Honey Whole Wheat Bread

------------------ Soundtrak of the Day ------------- Ring-a-Ling - BlackEyedPeas

.:: B R E A D ::.

Its my new favorite thing to do, when time permits... [Left: Olive sourdough bouille, Sourdough loaf, Rosemary Tomato Foccacia, Olive bread and Yogurt/Sourdough rolls] ------------------ Soundtrak of the Day ------------- Ring-a-Ling - BlackEyedPeas

Since I've been on a major hiatus. I have baked a few fan favorites..... Honey Whole Wheat Bread **A nice hearty bread he is. This will for be my go to whole wheat, from here on. A few ingredient adjustments have to be made. After learning the six-braid technique in school, I was so very excited and could not stop braiding every bread I made since that magic moment. ------------------ Soundtrak of the Day ------------- Maxwell - Lifetime

What i've been up to... I have just finished these remaining items from a bread class...

Items featured: Assorted danishes(apple, cherry, cream cheese, and apricot), palmiers, pithivier, cinnamon rolls, maple nut sticky buns, croissants and brioche

.::BREAD EDITION::. Items featured: sourdough (white & rye), pretzels, pain au lait, baguettes, savarin, whole wheat rolls, pizza, pita, challah, cibatta, fococcia, bagels and pain de mie

I love bread, so I thought. I am excited (to be making bread and a different one daily), dont get me wrong. I am just overwhelmed with the amount of bread I've produced in just 2 weeks. My freezer looks like I've robbed a Panera Bread.

------------------ Soundtrak of the Day ------------- Travie McCoy ft. Ceelo Green - Mr.Feel Good -----------------------------------------------------------