With the cold weather making it’s descent on central Texas, I’m craving “winter” food more and more – soups, stews, casseroles… and when the kids are home, that’s what we are having because with my growing boys, there is no such thing as “left-overs”
Quick aside – my eldest just turned 12 and we are now officially shopping in the MEN’S department!!!
HOLY COW! In fact, the new ski coat I bought him – a Men’s Small – was TOO SMALL and today I’ll be upgrading that to a MEN’S MEDIUM! Who told him he could grow so big so fast? The Ski Bib he’s wearing in the picture – ALSO a Men’s Small… Le-sigh…but alas… I digress.
Back to food.
Last year I discovered that I like eggplant. More importantly, my kids do too! So a new staple for a quick and healthy dinner is Eggplant Pizzas.
Eggplant Pizzas |
- 1 eggplant
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 4 oz tomato sauce
- 1/3 lb Canadian bacon
- 1/2 cup mushrooms
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 salt
- 1 pepper
- 1 Italian seasoning
- Pre-heat over to 350 degrees
- Slice eggplant into roughly 1/2 inch slices trying to keep them uniform
- Drizzle with olive oil and place on a baking sheet
- Sprinkle with sea salt and put in over for roughly 30 minutes
- Remove from the oven and spoon tomato sauce over the rounds – I added some Italian seasoning over the tomato sauce here
- Add toppings – finishing with cheeses
- Turn oven to broiler and put the “pizzas” back in until the cheese is melted and slightly browned.
- Our pizzas had Canadian bacon, mushrooms and cheese but your options are limitless!
- And got rave reviews from my toughest critics:
- This could easily be made into a vegetarian meal as well
The boys like Canadian bacon and mushrooms, I went with musrooms, olives and tomatoes… yum-tastic.
The best part, is like I said before, it gets the kids involved with cooking and eating veggies.
They get to not only help, but have some control about what goes on their “pizzas.”
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Those look and sound delicious! I honestly have never tried egg plant before but I think I should as it makes a great gluten free alternative. Thanks for sharing.
Looks yummy!
I love how you call it “Canadian Bacon”, up here we call it Back-Bacon or Peameal Bacon… We’re so much the same yet so different 🙂
I’m going to have to try that! I’m always looking for ways to incorporate healthy options into the things my children will eat…and who doesn’t like pizza!! Thank you for sharing!