The kids were getting hungry and since Nicole and I have a a lot of free time sans jobs, I opted to try a recipe for Raw Food Pizza from a new cookbook that Nicole got.

Well, let me tell you Lisa Mann, the world is not going raw if we have anything to say about it! To make the crust you’re supposed to sprout the wheat grains. Ok, cool I’ll sprout some wheat grain, it’s kind of fun anyways. So a day later I’ve got my sprouted grain and I’m set to go. What’s next? Oh, just put a cup of flax seed, some veggies, re-hydrated sun dried tomatoes and the grain in a food processor, shape the dough and dehydrate it for 24 hours!

So we don’t have a food processor. We have an off brand magic bullet called the desert cactus! Well, we had an off brand magic bullet. The spinning piece that turned the blade was made of rubber and this raw food crust did it in. Melted the rubber and launched The Tandooris back into the stone age of kitchen utensils: A Knife and some elbow grease.

Day Two: The camp is exhausted but we press on because we’ve gotten this far and can’t turn back now. Above you’ll see a nearly finished raw pizza crust that did fill the house with a pleasant smell and tasted pretty good. Time for the toppings.

Tomato Sauce:

“Cheese” Topping:

A few olives go on top and we’ve got a pizza. 2 days later and change we’ve got a pizza.

I guess it looks convincing, but soooooo not worth it. It called for red bell peppers, but there was already too much imported food in this recipe that The Tandooris just couldn’t bring themselves to do it.

Raw foodists, we apologize and appreciate your fervor. You just use too many exotic, unseasonal, imported foods and consume so much energy with your specialized kitchen equipment. What’s more you people live on nuts and that’s nuts! 

We put the remaining sprouted wheat into a bread dough and I can say that fresh baked bread never smelled better!

happy holidays, The Tandooris