the zucchini crust pizza.

I do like to try new recipes. Since my ballooning body has given me so much grief, I’ve concentrated on collecting vegetable recipes. I say collecting, because I am not home often enough to catch up with mail, laundry and bathrooms and then have the desire to stand and cook.

Well, today I tried out the zucchini pizza recipe. I spiralized my zucchini, then using a large knife, diced it a bit.

The following recipe is not very clear on the cooking time. So this is what I did:

Mixed eggs, zucchini, and cheese ( I whimped out and purchased an Italian blend-finely shredded low moisture part-skim mozzarella, smoke flavored provolone, romano, parmesan, fontina & asiago cheeses-8 ounce.). Okay it was cheaper than straight parmesan; and it tasted wonderful!

 

I spread this out on my silpat sheet ( I think a glass baking dish would do just fine); and smoothed all the edges.

 I put in 400degree oven for about 9 minutes.

In the meantime I sautéed the very thinly sliced mushrooms, thinly sliced red onion, and diced green peppers.

Taking the “pizza” out of the oven, I spread on purchased pizza sauce, my vegetables, olives and what was left in the package of the cheese mixture.

I put it back into the 400 degree oven for 15 minutes more.

It does not come out with a solid base-I used a spatula and dished it out in small portions.

 

We added very small pieces of fresh basil after it was out of oven. Yummy!http://recipevan.com/recipe/zucchini-crust-pizza/

Your dad and I really loved it. Not sure if you could get away with this with the kids or not. There is no zucchini flavor, a great pizza flavor and no fattening crust. ( just cheese).

 

This is the recipe I used from Pinterest

 http://recipevan.com/recipe/zucchini-crust-pizza/

Ely, Nevada

We stayed in Ely for a couple of nights. It was interesting. They mine gold, silver, lead and copper in a nearby town called Ruth. 
These are replicas of charcoal ovens; charcoal was made to use in the mines.

Several of the down town Ely buildings had painted murals. This one depicted the original charcoal ovens.

 

 

In a nearby area we visited the Ward cemetery. There were a few graves there(originally 43), and only one guarded with an intricate metal enclosure. The rest had either the same small enclosure only with  wood or no guards left at all.

Miles north of Ely is a place called Cherry Creek. It had no services. It did have oodles of abandoned
vehicles of all sorts. The houses were deteriorated with a few houses that looked like someone lived in them.

Ah, frosty crystals on large cow pie!

 

We had totally yummy-to die for- hash brown potatoes at the Nevada Hotel. They were listed as "thosepotatoes" and were fried just right with tons of green peppers, onions and other veggies in them. Delicious.

It was an interesting trip. We saw wild horses, lots of antelope, jack rabbits, some deer, but no elk.

Sunrise and the beginning of another day.