Mexican pizza

• Pizza dough for one crust
• GroundRound (fake ground-beef type stuff)
• Tomato sauce (we used a batch that Branden made from scratch)
• Corn
• Bell peppers (I used a combination of red, orange, and yellow ones), diced
• Green chilies, diced
• Yellow onion, diced
• Olive oil
• Broccoli, cut small
• Salsa (I used a habanero-lime one from Trader Joe's)

saute the ground round with black pepper, cayenne, cumin, and paprika. Then layer sauce, groundround, corn, peppers, chilies and onions. Drizzle olive oil over the top, and bake for about 15 minutes. Add the broccoli in the last five minutes, and serve with salsa on top.

Pizza dough! (with a bread machine)

The dough setting on my beloved bread machine makes excellent pizza dough, here's my favorite dough recipe:

1 1/4 c. water
3 T. olive oil
1 1/2 t. sugar
1 1/2 t. salt
2 2/3 c. whole wheat flour
1/3 c. pure gluten
4 t. yeast
2 t. basil or other dried herb

When the dough cycle is done, turn out dough onto a lightly floured board, let rest for ten minutes, then stretch out onto a baking pan. Top with yummy things, then bake at 400 for twenty minutes.

The best bread ever (for a bread machine)

I bought a used bread machine and made a number of very sad looking mutant loaves, which were generally short and often crooked. I felt sorry for them, so I ate them to put them out of their misery. After many a disappointing peak into the bread machine window in the morning, I finally woke up one beautiful day to find... the perfect loaf! Angels sang down from above and the villagers rejoiced. It's almost hard to eat something so beautiful, but I always manage to do it. If you don't have a bread machine, you should get one. It's easy, cheap, and a ton of adventurous mad kitchen-scientist fun to make bread.

Here it is... my best bread ever (as of today):

1 1/4 c. lukewarm water
2 T. soymilk powder
1 T. margarine (earth balance, of course)
2 T. molasses
1 T. honey or agave nectar
1 t. salt
1/2 c. white flour
2 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 c. pure gluten
3/4 c. oats
2 1/2 t. yeast
1/2 c. walnuts or cashews

Put all that in the bread machine in the order recommended by your manual, press start, and then enjoy fantastic bread!