Meatless Monday: Vegan Pizza

This is my second #MeatlessMonday post. Pizza is something practically anyone can make, even vegan pizza, even me! You just need patience with the crust and creativity for combining toppings.

Gooey leftover homemade vegan pizza. Yum!

 You have two options for delicious crust.

1. Make your own with yeast. (Quick and easy, and popular, pizza crust recipe.)
2. Buy a bag of pizza dough at the supermarket. You can find it in the refrigerator and freezer section. There's usually a multigrain and white flour option. I recommend leaving it out of the fridge a few hours before you work with it.

Homemade or from the market, you've got to make the dough into a crust somehow. Watch this video "How to Toss Pizza Dough, and Why You Should" from CHOW featuring World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani.

Now, what are you going to bake it on? Three options.

1. Do you wanna make deep dish style pizza:? Use a cast-iron skillet. Check out what Emma did at A Beautiful Mess.
2. Are you fancy? Then you probably have a pizza stone. (I wanna eat at your house!) If you're thinking about getting fancy, this HowCast video explains how a pizza stone can help distribute heat evenly and make for a crispy crust.
3. Are you just a regular person who bakes occasionally? Then you probably have a cookie sheet. Put your pizza dough on that.

Whatever you do, I recommend baking the dough a little bit before putting on sauce and toppings then baking it some more. What kind of stuff goes on a vegan homemade pizza? Whatever you like. That's the magic of homemade! Here's what I like:

• Muir Glen Organics Pizza Sauce- it's the best of the canned stuff and good for lazybones. I aspire to one day make homemade pizza sauce; this recipe from Simply Scratch has me drooling into my keyboard.
• Vegan cheese. Use Daiya Cheese or Teese. Don't waste your time with anything else. 
• Sauteed veggies and mushrooms. 
• Roasted garlic.
• Roasted sweet potato. (Try it!!!)
• Tofurky Italian Sausage

Vegan Pizza: All the kids are eating it! Good looking recipes at:
No Meat Athlete
Oh She Glows has a million pizza posts
Vegan Yumminess

Do you make pizza at home? What do you use: stone, cast iron skillet, or baking sheet? What's your favorite vegan cheese for pizza? Let's talk!

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