Vegan Pizza Day

Today is Vegan Pizza Day, so it was only fitting we make some vegan pizza! 

I used this recipe to make the pizza.  Mmmm! Yummy! 

Pineapple & Green Pepper Pizza

Finally, a working oven and some new guests to try my pizza!

Pizza Dough - http://vegweb.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=96af27e894ae2fd4187eff3006107ebe&topic=8128.0

We changed up the way we made it a little again. We let the dough rise for 2 hours this time, it seemed to make it fluffier.

We put the oven at 450° and baked the pizza with Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella 'cheese' and sauce for 20 minutes. We put the pineapple in the oven separate for 5 minutes to dry it out a little because I was worried about the 'cheese' becoming runny like with the toaster oven pizza. With about 5 minutes to go we added the green peppers and pineapple to half the pizza. At the end it seemed the cheese was still a little sloppy, so we put the pizza back the oven on broil for 5 minutes to cook the 'cheese' a little more. This seemed to work really well, except the pizza was already cooked at this point so it cooked a little more than I would have liked. Next time we are going to try to cook the pizza for 15 minutes on bake, then put it on broil for the last 5 minutes.

I served to the pizza to my guests, Christy & Colin, and not only did they take one slice, but 3 each. Later on I was told Colin said he liked it so much he consider would making the recipe himself. It always makes me happy to hear people like new vegan foods, especially ones I (and my roommate Paul) made.

Day 7: One Week Vegan & Toaster Oven Pizza

The oven finally got looked at today, but won't have a part until Monday, so yet again, I had to improvise.

I have made the vegan pizza before using the same recipe and it's always turned out wonderful! Cooking it in the toaster oven, it didn't turn out quite as well, but was still a tasty pizza none the less!

I used this recipe for the dough: http://vegweb.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=96af27e894ae2fd4187eff3006107ebe&topic=8128.0
This recipe is GREAT, but instead of cooking it at 500°, we cook it at 450° for about 20 minutes. It also works great for bread sticks.

The sauce is a special recipe made by my roommate, Paul, but you can use any recipe for pizza or pasta sauce you would like.

I used Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella. It melts nice and tastes really good! Mmmm.

For this pizza I added pineapple chunks and raw green peppers cut into pieces both that I added after it was cooked. Only problem with adding the pineapple right after it comes out of the oven was the juices made the cheez runny before it fully set. So might want to wait a few minutes until it hardens, or squeeze the pineapples dry. Still yummy even runny!