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Pasta Pizza Pie #SundaySupper

October 4, 2015 ·

Pasta Pizza Pie puts a fun twist on pizza and pasta, by starting with a pasta “crust” that is topped with sauce, cheese and favorite pizza toppings!

For Sunday Supper this week, we are partnering with Gallo Family Vineyards to celebrate National Pizza Month by sharing some pizza-inspired recipes and wine pairings. This is definitely a month long celebration I can get behind! We have pizza at least once a week, sometimes more. Anything pizza is always a winner, and pizza inspires a lot of creativity with recipes!…

Filed Under: gluten free, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes, vegetarian Tagged With: cheese, easy, gallo family vineyards, pasta, pizza, quick, sundaysupper

Pizza Grilled Cheese | alidaskitchen.com

Pizza Grilled Cheese #SundaySupper

April 12, 2015 ·

Pizza Grilled Cheese combines two classic favorites into a tasty sandwich, with a side of pizza sauce for dipping!

It just so happens that April is National Grilled Cheese month. An entire month devoted to one of the greatest food inventions ever…the grilled cheese sandwich! Whether it is a classic from your childhood or something a bit more gourmet, grilled cheese sandwiches bring people together in a way like no other food. Well, no other foods except perhaps pizza. People are passionate about their grilled cheeses as well as their pizzas. So it is only natural to put the two together and make a Pizza Grilled Cheese sandwich!…

Filed Under: healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: cheese, easy, grilled cheese, pepperoni, pizza, quick, sandwich, sundaysupper, vegetables

Pizza Quinoa Bites #SundaySupper

January 25, 2015 ·

Pizza Quinoa Bites are healthy, cheesy mini pizza muffins made with quinoa and your favorite pizza toppings. Perfect for a healthy appetizer, snack or light dinner! {gluten free}

One of my most requested party recipes are quinoa bites. From the Broccoli Cheddar Quinoa Bites to the Jalapeno Popper Quinoa Bites, quinoa bites are always a fan favorite! They make great finger food appetizers, which is especially perfect this time of year for game day parties. While I am not necessarily a football fan, I am a football party food fan! So in preparation for the big game, I thought it would be fun to channel one of my favorite game day foods (pizza) into a fun little bit-sized treat that is a little healthier ~ Pizza Quinoa Bites!…

Filed Under: appetizers, gluten free, healthy, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: cheese, dinner, easy, entertaining, gallo family vineyards, muffins, pizza, quick, quinoa, snack, sundaysupper

Cheese Stuffed Monkey Bread | alidaskitchen.com

Cheese Stuffed Monkey Bread + DOLE Garden Soup

December 3, 2014 ·

Cheese Stuffed Monkey Bread is pizza dough wrapped around a cube of cheese, brushed with garlic butter and baked in a Bundt pan. Fun to serve to a crowd and perfect to enjoy with your favorite soup!

Thank you to DOLE (through the Mom It Forward Blogger Network) for sponsoring this post.

Cheese Stuffed Monkey Bread is small pieces of pizza dough wrapped around a cube of cheese and brushed with melted garlic butter. In other words, made from some of the tastiest foods ever! It is not overly dough-y or overly cheesy, but a nice balance of the two. And the garlic butter really makes it special. The result is a cheese filled garlic mini pizza bread that is made for dipping. Pizza sauce seemed like an obvious dipper, until I realized this Cheese Stuffed Monkey Bread is quite similar to mini grilled cheese. What goes best with grilled cheese, but soup of course!

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Filed Under: appetizers, bread, healthy, kid-friendly, Recipes, soup, vegetarian Tagged With: bundt, cheese, dinner, DOLE Garden Soup, easy, entertaining, monkey bread, pizza, quick, soup

Halloween Baked Potato Skin Pizzas | alidaskitchen.com #recipes #SundaySupper

Halloween Baked Potato Skin Pizzas #SundaySupper

September 28, 2014 ·

Make fun, spooky and healthy pizzas with these Halloween Baked Potato Skin Pizzas that use a baked potato skin for the crust and are creatively topped with your favorite pizza toppings. {gluten free}

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It is fun, carefree and just feels less stressful most other holidays. We are starting to get into the Halloween spirit! This past weekend, we visited a pumpkin patch, decorated the house with Halloween decorations and started to talk about costumes. And then of course there are the Halloween recipes! I love to make pumpkin everything, candy-inspired treats and even decorate my food for Halloween. These Halloween Baked Potato Pizza Skins are always a favorite. They are healthy, fun and the kids love them (adults do too!) …

Filed Under: gluten free, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: cheese, easy, halloween, olives, pizza, potatoes, sundaysupper

Pizza Frittata | alidaskitchen.com #recipes #glutenfree #WeekdaySupper #ChooseDreams

Pizza Frittata #WeekdaySupper #ChooseDreams

August 22, 2014 ·

Pizza Frittata is everything delicious about pizza with a protein-packed, egg-based crust. Made in minutes, this fun twist on pizza is perfect for a quick dinner, last minute meal or any time you want a healthy pizza fix!

When life gets busy, we always default to frozen pizza for dinner. It is easy to have on hand, and what can I say, we love pizza! While frozen pizza can be a simple dinner solution, sometimes I just want the taste of pizza but would rather have something healthier and with more protein. Enter Pizza Frittata….

Filed Under: breakfast, gluten free, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes Tagged With: #choosedreams, #weekdaysupper, brunch, cheese, easy, eggs, frittata, pizza

Garlic and Herb Pizza Puffs | alidaskitchen.com

Garlic and Herb Pizza Puffs #SundaySupper #GGHoliday2013

December 8, 2013 ·

Garlic and Herb Pizza Puffs are tasty little pizza bites filled with cheese, garlic and herbs. They make a great appetizer, snack or light meal and are perfect for dipping in your favorite pizza sauce!

This week, Sunday Supper partnered with Gourmet Garden to share easy Holiday entertaining recipes. We were provided with a wide variety of Gourmet Garden products, including various herbs, garlic, ginger and more. These products are used like fresh herbs in a one-to-one ratio, but can be used in place of dried, typically at a two-to-one ratio. So, two tablespoons Gourmet Garden ginger equals one tablespoon dried ginger….

Filed Under: appetizers, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes, vegetarian Tagged With: cheese, herbs, muffins, pizza

Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas

May 3, 2013 ·

Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas are fun, little individual deep dish pizzas made in a muffin tin. First you roll out little pizza dough circles and then gently put them in the muffin cups. Then fill each dough round with your desired sauce and toppings and then top it with cheese. I used premade dough (from Trader Joe’s), topped them with a marinara sauce, broccoli, red onion and mozzarella cheese, and they came together in less than 30 minutes. These Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas are completely customizable with your favorite sauce and toppings. Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas are a definite crowd-pleaser. Besides – there is always something fun about anything in miniature!

Today I am being featured over at Momma’s Meals where I’m being featured as part of Tammi’s Featured Fridays series! Every Friday, Tammi gets to know her fellow bloggers and makes one of their recipes to share with her family and then with her readers.

I thought it would be fun to make something from Tammi’s site to share with you, and her Individual Deep Dish Pizzas were perfect! Incidentally I had been looking at an Everyday Food recipe for little deep dish pizzas made in a muffin tin, so these Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas that I’m sharing with you is sort of a combination of the two recipes.

Mini Deep-Dish Pizzas

Yields: 12 pizzas

Ingredients

Cooking spray
All-purpose flour, for rolling
1 pound pizza dough (homemade or store-bought) - in 12 pieces
Salt and pepper
1 cup pizza sauce (I used a homemade marinara sauce)
Your favorite pizza toppings - about 1 to 2 tablespoons per pizza (I used chopped broccoli and red onion)
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray 12 standard muffin cups with cooking spray. Set aside.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out each piece of pizza dough into 6-inch circles. Place into prepared muffin cup, gently pressing dough into bottom and up the sides. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
Put 1 tablespoon sauce in each dough cup. Top sauce with 1 to 2 tablespoons of pizza toppings and then top with cheese.
Bake until dough is browned and crisp, approximately 12 minutes. Let cool for 2-5 minutes before removing from cups.

Sources: Everyday Food,September, 2010 and Momma’s Meals

Filed Under: appetizers, healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes, vegetarian Tagged With: baby/toddler, cheese, dinner, easy, italian, muffins, pizza, quick

Pasta Pizza Pie

March 14, 2013 ·

Pasta Pizza Pie combines two Italian favorites (and two of my favorites!) into a delicious pizza-inspired baked pasta. First, you start by baking a pasta “crust.” Then you spread your favorite pasta sauce over the crust and top it with your favorite toppings. I used a 12-inch saute pan in lieu of a pizza pan, and it worked great!

Pasta Pizza Pie puts a fun twist on pizza and a fun twist on pasta,…and incidentally since it’s also a “pie,” this Pasta Pizza Pie is perfect for today, March 14th (3.14)…”Pi Day!”

Pasta Pizza Pie

Yields: 4 servings

Ingredients

Cooking spray
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 large onion, chopped*
1 cup sliced mushrooms (I used baby bellas)*
2 garlic cloves, minced *
1 egg, beaten
¼ cup milk (I used skim)
8 ounces (1/2 of a 1 pound box) rotini-shaped pasta, cooked and drained
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese (about 4 ounces)
1½ cups of your favorite pasta sauce (I used Muir Glen Tomato Basil)
crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
* substitute with your favorite pizza toppings

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 12-inch saute pan or pizza pan with cooking spray and set aside.
In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and mushrooms and cook until tender, about 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally. In the last minute, add minced garlic and stir for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
In a medium bowl, stir egg, milk, pasta and ½ cup cheese. Spread pasta mixture in prepared pizza pan. Bake this pasta crust for 20 minutes.
Remove pasta crust from oven and spread sauce over crust. Top with onion-mushroom mixture. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Shake crushed red pepper flakes over cheese.
Bake for 15 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Source: Campbell’s Kitchen

Filed Under: healthy, kid-friendly, main dishes, Recipes, vegetarian Tagged With: baked, dinner, easy, mushrooms, pasta, pie, pizza, quick, tomato

Mushroom and Leek Pita Pizzas

April 4, 2012 ·

After a long day of work and play, it’s nice to have some healthy quick and easy meals ideas on hand. These Mushroom and Leek Pita Pizzas fit that bill quite nicely. Mushrooms and leeks are a delicious combination, and a little garlic and crushed red pepper give this pizza a little pizazz. The whole wheat pitas serve as a sturdy crust. Topped with some low fat ricotta and lots of vegetables, these pitas turned pizzas become a healthy dinner in less than 20 minutes.

Mushroom and Leek Pita Pizzas

Yields: 2 servings

Ingredients

Cooking spray
1 cup leeks, sliced (approximately 1 leek)
2 garlic cloves, sliced
2 cups sliced mushrooms (5 ounces)
Coarse salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
2 whole wheat pitas
¼ cup low fat ricotta cheese
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
2 teaspoons olive oil, for drizzling
Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Spray large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat.
Add leeks and mushrooms and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until golden, about 1 to 2 minutes (watch carefully to not over cook garlic). Season with salt and pepper.
Place pitas on prepared baking sheet. Spreach each pita with 2 tablespoons ricotta cheese. Drizzle with 1 teaspoon olive oil, and top with vegetable mixture. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes (if using).
Bake until pita is golden and cheeses begin to melt, about 6 to 8 minutes. Serve immediately.

Adapted from Whole Living