recipe for the best pizza of your life!

kim came over friday night and we had a blast hanging out, as usual. we perfected our salsa skills in the kitchen (justin even learned how to wiggle those hips!) while cooking a plant-based pizza (:  everything can be bought from trader joes, which makes this pizza an easy go-to and, also, gives you no excuse for NOT trying it...

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pre-cooked

plant-based mushroom artichoke pizza

ingredients:

- whole wheat pizza dough
- pizza sauce
- 1 bell pepper
- 10 garlic cloves
- 1 pack of mushrooms
- 2 tomatoes
- artichoke hearts
- red pepper flakes
- pink himalayan sea salt

instructions:

insider trick:  cook the dough for five to ten minutes prior to placing toppings on. then you won't have soggy crust with overcooked veggies!

follow instructions for cooking the dough, but only cook it half way. make sure to generously apply flour to your pan so the dough doesnt stick! while dough is cooking, saute garlic and bell pepper in a pan (you can replace oil with water when sauteing, making this a relatively low in fat meal. start with 1-2 cups of water and simply add more water as it evaporates. i promise you will LOVE the taste of oil-free veggies!). remove partially cooked dough from oven and cover it in pizza sauce. layer with sliced tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, artichoke hearts (we pressed as much oil out of them as we could using paper towels), and the garlic pepper mixture. top with red pepper flakes and himalayan sea salt to taste. cook until dough is solid.

then devour.

and cry because you probably should have made two pizzas (;

seriously.

all of us probably could have consumed an entire pizza each..

self control.

what a bitch.

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what's your favorite pizza recipe?

share in the comments- because we are on a pizza making train...