Bread Pizza

Today's Lunch: Bread Pizza

A wanted some kind of Pizza today for lunch as they make Cheese Pizza in the cafeteria on Fridays. She has the option of buying lunch there (I will be glad to get a break for a day! ) but... Well the story is she tried it on the first Friday of school, stood in the line and found some strange smell near the kitchen which made her feel nauseated. She left the line without buying the food and has been refusing to buy food in the cafeteria ever since. I am not sure what the smell was as she said she has never smelt something like that before. My guess is it was a chicken dish that was on the menu that day as A has never really smelt meat cooking. So long story short we are doing lunch from home on all days until further notice from her highness!

I forgot to take a picture of her lunch as it was a big rush this morning, but this is a picture of a slice that I saved for myself. I just sent a few slices of this with nothing else for lunch as she buys ice cream at school on Fridays.

Ingredients

Wheat Bread ( Other kind of bread like Pita or Afghan Bread might work even better but this is what I had at hand today)
Pizza Sauce ( I used a store bought Grilled Vegetable Pasta sauce)
Mozzarella Cheese

Method

Lay the bread slices on an oven safe plate and spread the pizza sauce on it. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese such that the bread is covered. Bake this in an oven heated to 350 deg F for about 5 to 8 minutes or until all the cheese is melted. Cut the Bread Pizza into the desired size and enjoy!

Samosa

A weekend evening in a small school town in northern Utah, my hubby B and I are stranded indoors as it has been snowing through the day. With the weather so cold and being far away from home we are haunted by thoughts of hot spicy Indian food. The drive to the nearest indian restaurant is 80 miles, so getting there is out of the question. We rack the refrigerator to see what can be whisked up to satisfy the needs of our tongue. And we come up with this shortcut method for making samosas. No doubt the actual elaborate recipe tastes really good, but I can assure you this is no damper.

The one inspiration to this recipe was the need of our tongues for sure, but the other was an idea that my fellow graduate student A gave me. He suggested that we deep fry flour tortillas to make hot baturas which can be served with Channa.

Ingredients

Flour Tortilla – 5
Potato – 4-5
Onions - 2
Coriander Leaves – 2 tsp
Ginger – 1 tsp
Red Chilly Powder - 1 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1 tbsp
Jeera - 1 tbsp
Oil for frying

Preparation

Boil, peel and mash potato, add required amount of salt
Finely chop onions, ginger and coriander leaves
Cut tortillas into half

Putting Together

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add the jeera and fry. Add the chopped onions and ginger till onions are transparent. Add the mashed potato and dry powders and mix well. Garnish with the chopped coriander.

Take one half of the tortilla and make a cone out of it bringing the edges of the semicircle together. Seal the loose outer edge with your fingers with the help of some water. Scoop out 2 tbsp of the prepared potato curry and fill the tortilla cone. Seal the cone by bringing the two edges of the open end of the cone. Again use some water and your fingers to seal and make sure there are no open edges.

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the samosas till they become light brown.