Made to Order

Cooking can often be quite time consuming. But with a bit of creativity and effort, wholesome, delicious, and fun meals can result. Our menu last night was the following: Fresh Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Pizza, Prosciutto, Asparagus, and Mushroom Pizza, Butternut Apple Squash Soup, and Chopped Romaine Salad with 'leftover' bits of pizza toppings.
The most 'time consuming' part of this meal was the prep of the toppings for the pizza, which depending on your mood, you can simply purchase already chopped varied toppings from the salad bar section of your grocery store. But the prep is so easy and simple, it can be nice to get children involved in the process as well.
The pizza dough part of the pizza was purchased from Trader Joes, and you can use any of their cheese pizzas, but this time around I used their Pizza Margharita one. I have found their pizzas to be very delicious and quite close to fresh, as compared to the standard other brands one might find at any grocery store. I find that the brands at regular grocery stores sometimes taste of preservatives and well, like a frozen pizza.
To enhance that Margharita Pizza I added fresh toppings, and it turned out quite delicious and special, and since we made it ourselves, there is no other pizza out there like it.
I prepared a little too much fresh mozzarella cheese and chopped tomatoes, so I added an avocado and the extra toppings to some chopped romaine and tossed with some dressing.
The butternut apple soup from TJs is great. Their soups are not over salted, and taste very fresh, not like it was out of a can. This meal was prepared very quickly, but satisfied and sustained the whole evening. Have fun!


Fresh Toppings of Choice Pizzas

Directions:

Preheat oven to suggested temperature on box
Prepare toppings of choice
Top pizza with desired toppings
Bake until cheese is bubbly and items are cooked to desired doneness

Notes:
asparagus: was frozen from TJs. There's is nice and thin, and all you have to do is salt and pepper them, and add them in the last few minutes
cheese: I used fresh buffalo mozzarella and s&p
By the way, I am in no way trying to market for Trader Joes, I just happen to really like the products they sell, and feel they are very good quality. :)