Adaptable Avocado Recipe #3

It’s Easy Being Green

½ cup basil pesto

Ready made pizza crust

Olive oil spray

12 oz chicken sausages, sliced

1 yellow onion, chopped

2 green tomatoes, sliced

1 jalepeno, diced

2 cups mozzarella cheese

2 avocados – peeled, pitted, and chopped

*Preheat oven to 450

*While oven is preheating, sauté sausages and onions in a skillet sprayed with olive oil over medium heat.. Sauté for about 7 minutes or until onions are softened. Remove from heat.

*Spread basil pesto on pizza crust.

*Sprinkle 1 cup of cheese on pizza.

*Add tomatoes and jalepenos

*Top with last cup of cheese.

*Add brats and onions to pizza.

*Bake pizza for 12-14 minutes or until cheese is melted.

*Top with avocado slices and enjoy!

Day 10 - Just What the Doctor Ordered

Woohoo! I'm super thrilled about expecting our 2nd baby, but this back pain has been insane and has put a real kink in my culinary contest efforts. My OB gave me a referral for physical therapy. I'm super excited because in the time it took for me to make 3 contest entries today, my back and bum are out of commission tonight!

So first up is my supper yummy "Glocal Pizza". I created and filmed it for Pizza Fusion. However it is not yet up on their voting site and I can not get anyone to respond to my inquiries. But that is for another paragraph (see further below). It is a super yummy organic pizza that can be made in your kitchen in the same time, if not quicker, than those processed pizza delivery guys! Please try it.. It will change your dependency on tomato sauce and it will thrill your taste-buds! Here is the video..

Next is my "Be Thankful Everyday Cupcakes/Muffins". The premise was to create a meal or dessert with mix starter. I used a pumpkin spice bread mix. I would love to get this country on pumpkin 365 days a year! Pumpkin is soo awesome.. Here is the recipe & photo..

And I also did a run through of my side dish for Paula. It is called "Isabelle's Mean Green". It is awesome. It will make your other side dishes cry in embarrassment. Everyone in this house loves it. You will be inclined to want to eat the whole thing.. it's okay, I won't tell. Recipe and video will be up tomorrow.

Day 5 - Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing

Let's just say I've spent the better part of the day dreaming and creating recipes when I was supposed to be on another task. Let's leave it at that, m'kay..

Today I created my:

Who You Callin' Mini Weenie Corndog with Hot Mayo for the Dude Food contest (couldn't find it in the rules that you had to be a testrone charged male to enter.. so we'll see..)

Spicy Sweet Brie appetizer. Sadness. Can't try this for myself till post baby. Ah the things we do for our children..

Thai Chicken Pizza. I *love* thai chicken pizza, but Utah has not discovered this joy. So folks, this one that will be used quite a bit in my own kitchen regardless of if I win the contest. My stomache says this is a winner, and that is that!

And a boring warm spinach chicken strawberry salad. It's so lackluster and boring I could cry. I have to rethink this one quite a bit.. It doesn't scream "ME" at all.. Sad.

Tonight I'll be doing my last test for the Paul Deen desserts - a naughty pumpkin empanda. This is a nod to one of my favorite movies, "The Waitress". Love the story and can't wait to try these in my mouth!

Until tomorrow..