Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Adventures in Pizza

It's already really clear that I love pizza. But on this crazy Montignac thing that I am trying to follow, my normal homemade pizza is a bit out of the question unfortunately. So looking for other solutions, I first tried using a 100% whole wheat pita (I'll say that bread and cheese on this plan aren't supposed to go together, but I can't give up pizza completely, I just can't. So I am just seeing this as an improvement and I don't think a small pizza on some kind of whole wheat bread a couple times a month is gonna keep me from losing weight.)

Not too bad.... but not quite good enough either :(



Then I tried 100% whole wheat lavash bread. I cut the bread in half and pre-baked it for just about 1 minute in the oven on 500 degrees.


I added a bit of pepperoni b/c dammit, I wanted to. This was much better than the pita. For the pita I think I will stick to making chips! :) But I would try this pizza on the lavash bread again for sure.


I finally tried making whole wheat pizza crust from scratch using 100% whole wheat flour. Something did not turn out right :( The glutens in the flour wouldn't develop (does whole wheat flour even develop gluten?) and I couldn't stretch it. It tasted alright but the texture was more like a cracker than a chewy pizza crust :( I did put a bit of flaxseed meal in it to bump up the health factor but I don't know if that would make a difference. So that was disappointing - I didn't even photograph it ;)

No comments: