This past Saturday I spent most of the day redecorating the girls' bathroom, hoping to spiffy it up a bit before Sabrina's German exchange student, Julia, arrives on the 19th. (I never did like that word spiffy, btw, so I have no idea why I used it. It reminds me of a friend of mine from when I was about 13, who used to fancy herself perfectly poised and elegant, and she'd say to me each day, "One day I shall have a princess phone. And my room shall be decorated with tea roses. Won't that be spiffy, dahling!" And then she'd proceed to spray her bedspread with several kinds of perfumes. Drove me crazy.)
Anyhooty, I was so tired from all the taping and painting and sanding and hammering that I decided a completely easy-to-fix meal was in order. So I opted for pico de gallo, guacamole, blue chips with flax seeds, and margarita pizza. No, it wasn't a particularly normal combination of foods, but it was delicious nonetheless!
I decided to put all my pico de gallo ingredients in a bowl so I could grab what I needed to the way they do on Food Network, and it turned out so colorful, I took a picture!
In the background is Pioneer Woman's cookbook, turned to her pico de gallo recipe, but I only used that to see if I'd forgotten anything. I had. The jalopenos. But that's okay - I just minced up a few cloves of garlic, threw in some salt and lots of lime, and called it good. And was it ever!
Then I mixed in some smashed up avocado, opened up a bag of blue chips with flax seeds (I love Target's Archer Farms Organic Blue Corn with Flax Seeds kind... they're heartier than regular blue chips, and they have a rich flavor that I love!), and dug in.
Delicioso!
Soph decided to give it a try, although it didn't look very appetizing to her...
Will she like it?
Come on, Soph, give love a try!
She agrees! It is muy delicioso!
Sophie had to fill up on chips and pico bc she isn't very fond of margarita pizza. And since I'm not a good mother, I didn't offer her an alternative. (But at least I've never fixed hot dogs for Thanksgiving like MY mother has been known to do. She swears she never did, but I have the unsettling memories to prove it.)
Anyway, I make my margarita pizza pretty much the same way everyone else does, with maybe an exception or two. But just in case you've never made it, I'll type out the recipe. You've got to try it! You won't be sorry!
MARGARITA PIZZA
1 Boboli Thin Crust pizza crust
3 or 4 Roma tomatoes
6 slices of Provolone cheese (not smoked)
Basil (I just use dried)
Garlic powder
Slice your Roma tomatoes really thin and spread them in a single layer, each of them touching, all over the top of the pizza crust. (This substitutes the sauce.) Lay your Provolone on top of the tomatoes, again in a single layer. Sprinkle the top with your basil and garlic powder, and then slide it all in the oven. You can just put the pizza on the oven rack by itself, but I like to put a piece of parchment paper under it, and then slide the whole paper-and-pizza out onto a sheet after it's finished baking.
I just follow the baking instructions on the Boboli package... I can't remember what it says to put the oven to (450 degrees?), but I know I baked it for about 10-12 minutes, until the cheese was slightly browned. It was soooooo goooooood...
Give these a try together! It's not as bad as you'd think... one thing's for certain: they go together better than hot dogs and Thanksgiving. (Mom.) And I'll tell you one more thing: Pico-Margarito Night is a whole lot more fun than Family Game Night.
Yum! The pico and the pizza look great. No way your sweet mother served hot dogs - you must have Thanksgiving confused with the 4th of July!?
Posted by: Terri (TerriBoog) | March 16, 2010 at 04:07 AM
Wow! That looks really, really yummy! Now I want that for my breakfast! Hotdogs for Thanksgiving??? Are you sure???
Uh-oh...sounds like a challenge for Mike...to prove that game night still rules supreme!
Posted by: Catherine | March 16, 2010 at 05:06 AM
It all looks yummmmmy!!! Can't go wrong with a menu like that!
Posted by: Kim | March 16, 2010 at 07:08 AM
Wow, your dinner combo sounds very yummy and I agree, those blue Archer chips are the best and so are the Archer dips!
Sophie has the cutest dimples!
Posted by: Cari | March 16, 2010 at 07:25 AM
MMMMMMMmmmmmm! Yum! Thanks for the recipe -- the son is very into Hawaiian boboli pizza at the moment, so a good recipe for something other for the grownups is perfect! I keep meaning to get myself the Pioneer Woman's cookbook but haven't yet. Me thinks I need to fix that. :D Glad Sophie liked the dip and chips -- not sure mine would have tried. It's green after all. lol!
Posted by: Margaret | March 16, 2010 at 08:52 AM
Yum! Margarita pizza is a breakfast food right? It's 9:35am here, that's practically lunch....
Posted by: Melissa | March 16, 2010 at 09:35 AM
Yummy... it all looks delish!
Posted by: Laurie in Iowa | March 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Everything looks deeelicious!
Posted by: Tracey | March 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM
hum... you should have saved the guacamole for tomorrow - st. paddy's day! LOL!!
i generally use the smaller boboli's for my pizza since i'm only one. tho i've never noticed a thin crusted one? i like the sound of all the fresh ingrediants and will have to get some next grocery run!
will have to print that out! thanks!
LLLLLYYY!!!
Posted by: joann tx | March 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM
So glad you're not spiffy, but you may use the word anyway! Drop by my blog to see that you've been nominated for a Beautiful Blog award!
Posted by: Charlene ♥ SC | March 16, 2010 at 02:14 PM
I have to say that an authentic pizza is a whole lot tastier than those we get here in the States. I experienced my first authentic (that being a pizza without sauce) in Las Vegas and was hooked. Now, I order pizzas with "easy sauce"; just enough to get the taste but not so much where it is overwhelming. I am going to give your recipe a try! Thanks for sharing!!
Posted by: Julie Hayes | March 16, 2010 at 06:28 PM