My bad :).
Anyway, I really wanted to order pizza tonight. Pretty darn badly. Pizza Hut keeps emailing me about these pizza sliders they have, and I do so love Pizza Hut Pizza. The problem, though, will sound a little egotistical but...I really like my own homemade pizza....
Like a lot.
But since I had no dough made up nor any desire to make any dough, I debated on what the alternative could be. I did my grocery shopping today which is weird I usually do it on Sundays, but there were a few things I needed and I was just in a mood to get out and enjoy the town. Yes, as weird as it may seem, I LOVE to grocery shop. The bad thing is, when I shop in a good mood, I buy random things, especially if under the $5 mark. So I bought myself a cute green dish drying mat that is supposed to be super absorbent so I don't have to keep using my dish towels.
Which brings me to how this post happened. I saw a sale sign on some mushrooms looking through my spiffy-fun glasses, and I had to peruse what was available. I opted to get the large portobella mushrooms as I love bella burgers and had decided to use them as a pizza base as well.
I took the gills and stem out from the mushrooms and topped them with chopped tomatoes, chopped spinach leaves, herbs de provence as it doesn't have oregano so I like it better than pizza seasoning, garlic cheese topper, salt and pepper, and a mix of block mozz cheese and the last remaining bits of a bag of shredded mozz. Mozz is one of the only cheeses I still consider buying shredded when it is on sale.
Two had just those ingredients, one added pineapple, one added ham, and the last one added pineapple and ham. I popped them in a 350 oven for 20 minutes in a pan with a lip.
Now, after reviewing things online a lot of recipes call for broiling them for about 5 minutes before adding toppings. I can only imagine that this is to get all of the juices out of them. I clearly did not bother with this step, but it was not an issue because my pan had a lip on it.Be mindful of that.
Portobellas do make a fun pizza base though, and I enjoyed the fresher flavors of this over using pizza sauce. Were these as good as getting pizza sliders from pizza hut that have a zillion calories in them? Probably not. But they did allow me to eat a birthday cake cookie afterward without feeling like I had been completely awful for the evening haha!
There are benefits to healthy.
All in all, you could really put anything in portobella mushrooms and I think it is worth finding a flavor profile you like. This pack came with 5 for $3.99, of which I was only able to eat two. Had this been some sort of meal with something like salad or a side of pasta or similar, I may have only been able to eat one, so they really can be budget friendly. Portobellas make delicious "burgers" as well.
Happy crafting!
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