Being the good wife that I am, when David said, "Let's have pizza?" which we do as a good luck peace offering to our beloved Mountaineers on game day. I said, it has to be on whole wheat crust.
Love his heart, he was frantically googling our local pizza places for one who had the whole wheat crust availability. :( No such luck! (This would be a good idea! If any pizza dudes are reading this!)
Quickly I asked what he would like for toppings and then I bundled up, ear muffs, scarf, two pair socks, boots, 32 below gloves and took a quick trip to Krogers. I knew they carried a pre-made good tasting whole wheat version and the particular store near us, normally has very good produce for toppings. Mind you my car said it was 19 degree's and my phone said the windchill was 4! But, if he wants to join me in being healthy then I'm gonna do whatever it takes!
Now let me review this product. It is NOT white crusty, yeasty goodness. It IS filling, hearty and makes thin crust more filling and it is more chewy. Of course they only carry the one to a package variety and the do not offer the personal size, but we simply did one of those 1/2 and 1/2 pizza's. You guys know how picky I am! He wanted bell and banana peppers, sliced tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, black olives and extra sauce. Me? I wanted cheese, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms and a scant amount of sauce.
I followed the baking instructions after I carefully made "our" pizza and after we ate half of it, I realized I should blog about it and needed a picture. Here...sorry I forgot until we ate 1/2 of it!
It turned out well. I will admit I searched for whole wheat pizza crust mixes, there aren't any. I have seen some recipes using a whole wheat tortilla's...gonna try one of those later. I guess I'm gonna have to play with my whole wheat flour and yeast to see what I can come up with.
Healthy pizza...success! That's two new Milam menu changes that turned out well! Ahhhh.....
Here is a reply I received about this posting...I'm gonna try it, why don't you guys!!
ReplyDeleteFrom Melissa!!!
Hey girl! Just read your pizza blog - we make alot of homemade pizza. Here is what we do, and we are loving it. Bobby Flay's dough recipe from foodnetwork. We substitue half of more wholewheat flour for bread flour. This dough comes together super easy and is so easy to work with. It almost rolls itself out! Roldgold tomatoes in any flavor we want. Half the calories of pizza sauce, fat free too. Does gave a about the same amount of sugar though. Drain them well, use the handblender if you want NO chunks. Chile toms with sausage and pepers is yummy. Tradional italian with basil is better than any pizza sauce I have ever bought. I love chicken italian sausage and tons of veggies. Tim still breaks down and does pepperoni. We use skim milk mozzerella. (By the way, if you make the dough, you can freeze the left overs. This recipes makes 3 pizza for us) :>)