Today was a crazy day in terms of school work. I will spare you the boring details, but I managed to cross a couple important things off my list. Instead of school, I’ll just talk about food!
Tonight was a disaster in terms of my attempt to make gluten-free pizza dough. It’s embarrassing because it was a mix from a box…pretty tough to screw up!
I bought this mix at Whole Foods earlier this week in anticipation of Friday’s Pizza Night. Dave was all set since he is not going gluten-free in any way. But I wanted to partake too, so I was excited to find this mix. Unfortunately, I didn’t read the added ingredients. I didn’t have any eggs, so I substituted in eggbeaters. It may have worked, but I think I needed to use less because the batter was just too wet and sticky. I will try again with real eggs. I will also add only a little water at a time. I think it woul dhave been fine if I had used less liquid. Live and learn! this batch went straight to the garbage can. It was too sticky to be salvageable.
Since I lost my dough, I had to come up with a quick replacement. So I grabbed a corn tortilla and a brown rice tortilla, put sauce and ricotta cheese on each, and then topped them with lots of veggies I had cooked up earlier this week. I was curious to see which “crust” I would prefer.
Brown Rice Tortilla
Corn Tortilla
In the end, I couldn’t decide. They both turned out to be really good. I would use either one again (although the brown rice tortilla is bigger, so I get more pizza!)
I have been staring at my computer for the last 6 hours, so I am going to crash on the couch with my sweetie and watch last night’s Grey’s Anatomy!
Tomorrow….. Applepicking!
Nice recovery on that one, wow! Did you replace the egg beaters using a 1:1 ratio? 1/4 cup egg beaters for each egg, you probably already knew that. You’ll get it down sooner or later, meanwhile you’ve found another great way to make gluten-free pizza!
That’s too bad about the dough. You guys should move pizza night up to an earlier day next week so you can try again sooner
Actually, I just want to know what the gluten free dough tastes like!
Have fun applepicking
GF pizza dough IS sticky…my husband is a pro at spreading it. He either puts on a nylon glove (not nyplex, it sticks, I’m allergic to latex, don’t know if that would work)or puts his hand in plastic bag, then pours lots of olive oil on hand. He then spreads it out to the shape he wants. We use pchef stones, but I assume a well-oiled sheet pan would work too. Good luck with your next try.
I really appreciate the tips. I am just figuring this out as I go! Thanks for the help!
Did you like Grey’s Anatomy – I just watched it last night! Definitely a tear jerker…
I liked it…but I sure hope that the rest of the season isn’t such a downer. I don’t know what George couldn’t have just gone off to war. Why did they have to kill him off?