Raw vegetable flatbread

Sometimes I really just crave fresh veggies, especially if I've been eating heavy foods or eating at restaurants quite a bit. This flatbread is fairly light and is packed with veggies. We used to eat something like this growing up but I put my own spin on it. This recipe uses half a package of crescent rolls, you could double this to make a big one or you could use the other half for Cheaters' stromboli like I did.

Ingredients:

1/2 a package of crescent roll dough, pressed out into one rectangle
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dill
1 1/4 cup chopped veggies (any amount of each depending on what you like):
     -broccoli
     -carrot
     -cucumber
     -tomato
     -red onion
     -green pepper
     -red pepper
     -green onion
1/2 an avocado, mashed well
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
dash of salt
1/2 a lime, juiced
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

Directions:

Cook crescent rolls according to package, remove from oven and allow to cool a bit. While it is cooling, mix cream cheese, garlic, salt, and dill together. In a separate bowl, combine avocado, sour cream, garlic, salt, lime, and cilantro together and mix until very smooth then transfer to a small ziplock bag, cut one corner off the bag so that you can pipe it easily. Once crescent roll dough is mostly cooled spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over the dough. Spread chopped veggies over the cream cheese and press down a bit to make sure it sticks. Take the bag with the avocado cream and pipe a small line over the entire flatbread. Cut in squares and serve.

Perfect pan pizza

This pizza is so good and so perfect that the boyfriend and I couldn't even wait to eat it so that we could take a picture of it. The boyfriend even said that this pizza was as good as his favorite delivery pan pizza, which is incredibly high praise since he orders one at least once a week. This pizza really needs to be baked in a cast iron skillet. If you don't have one I would really suggest buying one immediately. It will be the best $30 you will ever spend. This recipe is for a 10" skillet but I don't see any reason you couldn't use a 12" as well, your crust will just be thinner.

Ingredients:

1/2 a recipe no knead bread dough
2 tablespoons olive oil (or 1 tablespoon oil and 1 of butter)
1/2 -3/4 cup pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce
1/2 block mozzarella cheese (not the fancy fresh kind, that has too much water), shredded
1 handful freshly shredded or grated parmesan cheese
Toppings: ours included onion, tomato, spinach, green pepper, feta, half sausage (for the boyfriend), and half green olive (for me)

Directions:

Make the bread dough as directed up until the second rising. At that point place oil (or oil/melted butter) in a cast iron skillet. Allow the dough to do its second rising in the cast iron skillet. It will spread out and fill the bottom of the pan without you needing to do much work at all. Preheat the oven to 550. After it has filled the bottom and has gone through the hour of rising, poke the dough with your finger tips to release some of the air bubbles. Lift up the sides of the dough and let if flop down to release any final bubbles. Top with sauce and mozzarella then all of your toppings except parmesan. Place it in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the sides have crisped up and the cheese has melted and begins to brown just a little bit. Take it out of the oven and carefully lift up one side of the pizza to check the bottom. If it isn't as crispy and brown as you want then place it on the stove over medium-low heat for a minute or so to crisp it up a bit. Top with parmesan. Remove from heat and let it rest for a few minutes, then cut and eat.

Easy homemade pizza

This pizza, from start to finish, seriously only takes like 35 minutes. That is less than the time it takes to order one and have it delivered. This pizza uses a dough that is quick to put together, but obviously doesn't taste as good as one that has been rising all day (no one has time for that). It sure as hell beats little caesers though. The one pictured has spinach, mushrooms, red onion, tomato, and feta, but you can top it with whatever you'd like. This makes a pizza big enough for two people.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 teaspoons rapid rise yeast 

1/2 cup warm (not hot) water

1 1/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon honey

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 tablespoons parmesan cheese

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/3 cup tomato sauce, or really as much as you want

mozzarella cheese, as much as you'd like

toppings

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450 and line a baking sheet with foil, spray it with non-stick spray. In a small mixing bowl, combine yeast and water, stir to dissolve completely. Add flour, honey, salt, and oil. Mix and then knead with your hands a few times. Let it sit for about 10 minutes, then knead it on a floured surface a few times. Roll it out until it is the thickness you'd like and then transfer it to your lined pan. Roll the edges of the dough to create a crust. Top the crust with the parmesan and garlic (or season your crust however you want). Bake crust for 6-8 minutes. Remove from oven and spread with sauce. Top with cheese and whatever toppings you'd like. Return to the oven and bake for 8-12 more minutes, depending on how crispy you like your pizza.