Like most foods, if you want to make it healthier, you’re going to have to make it yourself.

Yes, you can make a healthier-for-you pizza! Use whole wheat in the crust, low-fat mozzarella cheese, put some good stuff on top like fresh green peppers and onions, and how about a little pineapple? I like a little feta cheese on there too, which makes a nice contrast to the pineapple.

Over the weekend I made a bunch of sourdough pizza crusts. I like to make several at a time, then stick them in the fridge or freeze them. It’s handy to just pull one out, put whatever toppings sound good on it, and chunk it in the oven for a few minutes.

I also make some smaller sizes in 9-inch cake pans that work well to pop in the toaster oven too. Saves having to turn on the big oven and heating up the house during our hot southern summers.

I don’t want to give up my pizza, so I make my own, and use as many healthy ingredients as possible. Of course it’s more work than popping a frozen pizza in the oven, so it’s not what you’d call an “easy” health food change.  But besides being better for you, the taste is soooooo much more delicious!

If you haven’t tried making your own pizza, give it a whirl.  You’ll love the results!

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I’ve made quasi-sourdough breads for some time. By that I mean I use the sourdough starter, but I also put some commercial yeast in with the bread. This keeps the flavor, but it messes with the interaction of yeast and enzymes that make true sourdough breads more digestible and better for you.

A few weeks ago I made some true sourdough bread by accident – I flat out forgot to put the baker’s yeast in the bread. It didn’t rise as much, but it had a good texture and flavor. I figured I’d try the instructions in my cookbook and make it “like you’re supposed to.”

My experiment was sourdough gone bust.

Granted I made it in a bread machine, but the instructions I followed were specifically for making sourdough bread with a bread machine.

Somewhere I missed something. The dough wasn’t the right texture, being more elastic paste than good dough. But I will try again!

Stay tuned… maybe my next loaf of sourdough bread will look like it’s supposed to!

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Sourdough Gone Bust