Pizza w/ leftovers

So I have been out of town most of this week and needed to use up some leftovers in the fridge.  Using up odds and ends of food is always a challenge and I hate throwing food out, so I decided to make a meal with what was in there.  Here is what I pulled out to do dinner tonight:

I probably could have done some other meals with these ingredients, but I wanted to show that you can make pizza a healthy meal.  I generally make my own crust for my pizza, but you can buy whole wheat crust already made or you can look to use whole wheat tortillas as well.  Either of these whole grain options offer you more fiber and other vitamins and minerals then crust made from enriched flour.  Here is the recipe for my crust:

• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp canola oil
• 1/4 cup of water

Mix these ingredients together, knead for 1 to 2 minutes and then roll it out and bake for 5-10 minutes.

Once I pulled it out of the oven I chopped up the pork tenderloin, and used barbeque sauce instead of the basic tomato sauce.

I then loaded the rest of the toppings making sure to get my vegetables in by adding peppers, onions, and tomatoes to the mix.  You can add just about any vegetables that you like as a topping, which is one of the things that I like about pizza.  I then topped it off with a part-skim mozzarella cheese and popped it in the oven.



I baked the pizza a 400 degrees F for about 10 minutes and the put it under the broiler forr about 5 minutes to brown up the cheese.  Here is what the final product looked like:

Sometimes cooking just takes a little bit of an imagination and not having the fear of messing up.  Not all meals are going to turn out the way that you want them, but as you cook more an learn more techniques the more varities of foods that you can cook.  To keep my pizza healthier then others I used a thin whole wheat crust which keeps the carbohyrdrates within 60g and I spared using alot of cheese which can add fat to your meal.  The other thing was using a lean meat in the pizza as well.  Hope you enjoyed the blog and feel free to ask me any questions about the process.