My wife became Vegan about 5 months ago after being vegetarian for 2 years. I am now pretty much vegetarian. Anyway, try this for pizza:
Get some dough (making your own is quite easy I have learned).
Two Vegan toppings variations:
Pizza Sauce, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, olives (black or kalamata), pine nuts.
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Buffalo wing sauce, faux chicken chunks, jalapenos, very small amount of vegan cheese. If you like it spicy, this is a really good way to go.
I can provide an easy pizza dough recipe for those interested.
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Yes, Mitch, please pass on that easy pizza dough recipe. Is it a spiced dough with, say, basil and other herbs in it?
So far, our favorite pizza (at least for my husband and I) is the margherita pizza. Until recently, there was a restaurant in my town that had the best ones. So now I need to work on making them at home.
That spiced dough sounds good! I'm looking forward to seeing the recipe
I love vegan pizza! My favourite is a basic dough with something thrown in (like black pepper or dried basil, just to give it a bit of extra flavour). My bread machine makes the dough... flour, water, quick yeast, and a bit of salt and olive oil. I make a tomato base with a red pepper, half a dozen small tomatoes, a small onion and a bit of tomato purée and then whip it up with a hand blender. My usual topping is pineapple, artichoke hearts, kalamata olives and a tiny amount of cashew cheese from the Real Food Daily cookbook (I make a batch up about once a month and freeze it and then throw it in lasagne sauce, etc).
I'm not vegetarian, but I'm allergic to cheese, and nuts for that matter.
I can't stand the artificial vegan cheeses. They either taste like plastic, or just sit there and don't hold anything on the crust. So I've given up trying to use them.
Instead, I put a light layer of sauce on the crust( your favorite dough), and push the toppings down into the crust. Now they stay on the pizza, and no plastic cheese is necessary.
(05-07-2010 04:40 PM)nettiesaur Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not vegetarian, but I'm allergic to cheese, and nuts for that matter.
I can't stand the artificial vegan cheeses. They either taste like plastic, or just sit there and don't hold anything on the crust. So I've given up trying to use them.
Instead, I put a light layer of sauce on the crust( your favorite dough), and push the toppings down into the crust. Now they stay on the pizza, and no plastic cheese is necessary.
"plastic cheese" would be an apt description. My husband sometimes buys a frozen vegan pizza made by "Amy's". Somehow everything manages to stay on the crust.
The topic of cheeseless pizza reminds me of when I was about 8 and my mother had newly discovered milk allergies. We went to the drive-in one Friday or Saturday night (as we usually did) and we ordered a pizza from the snack bar (back when you could get a fairly freshly made one at a drive in) and my mom ordered it without cheese. Before I continue, I'll just say that this was a time in my dad's life when he only wore white shirts, all of the time. Once the pizza was in the car, he picked up his first slice to eat it, and..................all of the toppings and sauce, slid right off of the crust and down the front of his white shirt. That was the only time we ordered a cheeseless pizza.
(05-07-2010 10:32 PM)Bageleth Wrote: [ -> ] (05-07-2010 04:40 PM)nettiesaur Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not vegetarian, but I'm allergic to cheese, and nuts for that matter.
I can't stand the artificial vegan cheeses. They either taste like plastic, or just sit there and don't hold anything on the crust. So I've given up trying to use them.
Instead, I put a light layer of sauce on the crust( your favorite dough), and push the toppings down into the crust. Now they stay on the pizza, and no plastic cheese is necessary.
"plastic cheese" would be an apt description. My husband sometimes buys a frozen vegan pizza made by "Amy's". Somehow everything manages to stay on the crust.
The topic of cheeseless pizza reminds me of when I was about 8 and my mother had newly discovered milk allergies. We went to the drive-in one Friday or Saturday night (as we usually did) and we ordered a pizza from the snack bar (back when you could get a fairly freshly made one at a drive in) and my mom ordered it without cheese. Before I continue, I'll just say that this was a time in my dad's life when he only wore white shirts, all of the time. Once the pizza was in the car, he picked up his first slice to eat it, and..................all of the toppings and sauce, slid right off of the crust and down the front of his white shirt. That was the only time we ordered a cheeseless pizza.
Amy's "cheese" has casien in it, a milk product. I like the Amy's No Cheese pizza, but there's no protein on it, and of course then it's going to fall off.
Before I started pushing stuff down into the dough, I ate many pizzas that were like the one that attacked your dad! I learned to eat pizza with a fork...not much fun, but at least I could have it.