Pizza!!!

I did it! I made gluten-free, dairy-free pizza! It may not have been perfect but it satisfied my craving! I used a combination of a few different recipes to pull this one together so I'm pretty shocked it came together so well. I found a gluten free crust recipe then combined that with toppings from a chicken alfredo recipe and a dairy-free "alfredo" sauce recipe. You'd never guess what the alfredo sauce was made from... Cashews! Take a look!

Dairy-Free "Alfredo" Sauce 

(not tree-nut free)

1 c. raw cashews

4 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 onion, chopped

2 c. water

1 tbsp. lemon juice

1 tsp. sea salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

Boil cashews for 10 minutes to soften for a smooth sauce. Meanwhile, saute the garlic and onion until soft. Toss boiled cashews, onion, garlic, water, lemon juice, salt and pepper into the blender and blend for two minutes.

And there you have it! A dairy-free alfredo sauce that will knock your socks off!

Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

1- .25 oz. package active dry yeast

1 c. warm water

1 c. sorghum or amaranth flour

1 1/4 c. brown rice flour

2 tbsp. ground flax seed

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. dried oregano

1/2 tsp. dried basil

1 tbsp. honey

1 tsp. apple cider vinegar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Dissolve yeast in water and let sit for 5 minutes. Combine the flours, flax, salt, oregano and basil. Add yeast mixture, honey and vinegar. Stir well to combine. I had to use my hands to get the crumbly mixture into a ball.

Press or roll dough onto a flour pizza pan. This was my only problem with the finished product, the crust was way too thick so next time I'll make sure to roll the dough much thinner. Parbake the crust for 5 minutes before adding toppings.

I cooked up some diced chicken then spread a layer of the alfredo sauce followed by the chicken, spinach, diced tomatoes and another layer of alfredo.

Bake the pizza for about 20-25 minutes until toppings are lightly browned.

Like I said, the crust was too thick but other than that it had great flavor!

Here's little munchkin man loungin' in his exersaucer today. What a goof!

My new favorite place

Well, it's been over five months since we've started the elimination diet adventure and to be honest, I'm in a bit of a rut. I've definitely have the hang of what I can and can't eat and thankfully we're down to just wheat and dairy! But, I want pizza. I want a krispy kreme. Yes I feel so much better from eating healthier and yes I those foods are bad for me but it's just where I'm at right now.

So enough of the pity party, let's talk about what's been going on the last few weeks! Pinterest has been a great source of inspiration for dinners. Only problem, I keep forgetting to take pictures so I can share them here! I'll keep working on that!

I do however have to share about the place Brent and I went last night on our date called Sub Zero Ice Cream. I am in love! So basically it's ice cream that is flash frozen right before your eyes! To start, you choose from a list of cream bases, which includes a non-dairy coconut milk base! Then you choose your flavor, which I chose peach. And finally you choose any mix-ins, and I chose raspberries. They stir the base, flavor and mix-ins together in a bowl and then flash freeze it into ice cream using liquid nitrogen. It's seriously the coolest thing! Here's a couple pictures of the place and my delicious, frozen creation.

 

 
Just staring at that picture makes me want to back now! I'll work on getting pictures of some of the "pinteresting" recipes I'm planning to make this week :)

So it's been almost a month since Sawyer has started solids and we've seem to run into a few problems. We started with pureed avocado and then once he figured out his swallowing reflex we moved onto chunks of avocado, cooked sweet potato and banana over the course of a couple weeks. He started getting really bad gas so we took out solids for a couple days and then decided to try rice cereal. My intention was to avoid rice cereal and purees after doing some research on baby led weaning. There's a lot of advice out there on the what, how, when and why to starting solids and it can be a really confusing! But with Sawyer's sensitive system I'm not sure what's going to be best for him. Even now with the rice cereal he is still having a lot of gas. We've been trying gas drops daily for almost a week to try and help. I'm not worried about him not getting enough nutritionally because breastfeeding provides all the nutrients he needs at this age, but he has an interest in food that I want to allow him to explore. I'm hoping things will start getting better for him soon! Here's a fun picture we snapped one of the nights he was eating avocado. Love those faces!