So I've seen cauliflour pizza crust all over the internet and that's cool. Though I couldn't find any organic stuff at my local health food store. So I decided to go with broccoli which I totally love already anyway. I found a pretty simple and straight forward recipe to follow online at Purelytwins.com here even though it's a bread sticks recipe you can turn it into a pizza crust! So I followed most of the directions but tried it with chia gel instead of egg and omitted the psyllium husk...oh, and added some extra Italian seasonings! Mmmmm! Next time I may be omitting some sea salt though...too salty for my taste.
Then came my fave part as you know...DECORATING!!! I found this picture featuring fairly recently made figures inspired by the original Ninja Turtle's cartoon:
Yeah, for those who don't know the original Ninja Turtles all had Raphael's red bandana. Raph also happens to be my favorite! Just so you know, you don't have to do Raph (or the original turtles) like I did, if you want to create Michaelangelo's mask you can use orange cheese or possibly an orange veggie if you wish. For Donatello you could use eggplant skin, and for Leonardo...well that's a bit harder. You may be able to make a dessert version with blueberries for his mask. Unless you know of a veggie that has edible blue skin that I'm not aware of.
So anyway, to decorate Raph I used Neal Brother's Foods roasted garlic organic pasta sauce (just so you know apparently garlic is a cancer fighting food, one of the toughest ones around too) and covered the whole crust with that. Then I put on some L'Ancetre organic mild cheddar cheese made with unpasteurized milk for a light background, organic baby spinach as the green face, just a few select leaves. Carefully and stratigically poured on more sauce for the bandana and finely cut up some zucchini for the eyes with no pupil and snarling mouth. If you like black olives that would be a nice pupil too if that's the style you're going for. And voila! There you have a wonderfully green and healthy Ninja Turtles pizza with no carbs involved!
This pizza is mostly made with organic ingredients, is vegetarian but not vegan (though it could be if a vegan replacement cheese was used or cheese was omitted entirely), low sugar, high in fiber and like the blog promises, gluten free of course!
Just so those of you are aware of my geek cred when it comes to the Ninja Turtles, I met one of the Ninja Turtle creators Kevin Eastman a few years ago at Fan Expo. He was super nice and I shook his hand. All I could say was, "Nice to meet you!" but of course I really wanted to gush about how he influenced my life and how I became a cartoonist because of him. A few years later I made a Krang outfit for Zombie Walk (I figured everyone goes as a zombie to Zombie Walk, why not go as a brain?) and Kevin Eastman actually told me on Facebook that my costume was "Genius". Yeah, you can bet that was one of the best days I ever had!
