What We Ate Wednesday--A Sort of Pizza Bowl

Hello lovelies! This meal came to me in a dream (as so many meals do.)

What? You don’t dream of food? Just me then?

I was craving pizza, but we were out of flour to make a crust. I thought about the things I would have liked on a pizza (tangy red sauce, sausage flavoured mushrooms and onions, kale on the side, cheesy sauce) and thought about what I had which was an onion, mushrooms, potatoes and kale. I had cheese powder for a sauce. I had everything to make an amazing meal.

So I cooked onion and mushrooms with sausage spices based on a tempeh recipe from the PPK (Post Punk Kitchen) and added sautéed kale. I boiled potatoes on the side and then coated them with a tangy red sauce. Then I made up a batch of cheese sauce and drizzled it on. Hoorah! Pizza flavours!

You can find the original recipe from the PPK HERE. Tempeh is way more expensive than button mushrooms and this tastes just as nice.

This was really delicious and easy to do, but it did require 3 pots so a bit more washing up—but totally worth it.

A Sort of Pizza Bowl

Sausage Mushrooms

1 onion, sliced into rainbows

Lots of garlic, crushed

300g button mushrooms

Sausage spice mix (see below)

Juice of half a lemon

2 TB tamari or soy sauce

100 g (several handfuls) kale

 Sausage Spice mix

1 TB fennel seeds

1 tsp dried basil

1 tsp dried oregano

1 tsp red pepper flakes

1 tsp mixed herbs (mine has thyme, sage and marjoram)

 

Pizza Potatoes

400g potatoes, cubed and boiled until easily pierced by a knife

Red sauce—a few cloves finely chopped garlic, ¼ cup tomato puree, ½ tsp basil, ½ tsp oregano, 1 tsp balsamic vinegar, a TB water to thin it out

 Cheese Sauce

1/3 cup powdered cheese sauce FIND RECIPE HERE

1 cup unsweetened non dairy milk

1TB lemon juice

1 tsp wholegrain mustard (optional)

1. Cover your potatoes with cold water and bring to the boil. Cook until they can easily be pierced by a knife, then drain and set aside. Meanwhile, in a large pot sauté the onion in a splash of water or vegetable stock until softened. Add the garlic and mushrooms and cook down a bit and starting to brown.

2. Whisk all the ingredients for the cheese sauce into a small pot and heat on low heat. When the potatoes are done crank up the heat to medium and heat until sauce is bubbling and thick, stirring every few minutes. Remove from heat when thickened.

3. When the potatoes are done and you have turned up the cheese sauce, add the spice mix to coat the mushrooms and the kale and the lemon juice and tamari/soy sauce. Cook the kale and keep stirring until the kale wilts and turns bright green.

4. Add the drained potatoes back to their pan and add the tangy tomato sauce and heat on low until warmed.

5. Serve the kale and sausage mix next to the pizza potatoes and drizzle with cheese.

6. Take a photo and then smother with more cheese.

 That’s it. It was easy…but you do have to be watching three pots simultaneously. If you can’t cope with that then cook the sausage mushroom and kale and the potatoes, then heat the cheese sauce after.