Day Six- A New Food

I discovered something new in my veg box this week! It’s wild garlic and it’s the first I’ve ever seen it. Wild garlic has the same smell and taste as traditional garlic, but on a milder level. If fact, it’s mild enough to toss into salads. It’s actually leaves which are long and look similar to leaves on corn stalks. I have quite a large bag so I’ll be on the lookout this week for ways to use it. Tonight we had spinach pizza so I added it on top and it was delicious- a mild garlic flavor in every bite! I’m thinking wild garlic bread sounds really nice…

wild garlic leaves

shredded and ready for the pizza!

the (slightly over done) finished product

Mood: Happy

General Feeling: More energetic today! A little upset stomach though...maybe the coffee was too strong?

Exercise: Lots of cleaning

Food Journal:
Breakfast: Open egg and cheese sandwich, milk, coffee
Snack: banana, water
Lunch: leftover veggies- peas, potato salad, and peanut butter sandwich for protein
Snack: Cereal bar, water
Dinner- Spinach and garlic pizza, water
*Snack- apple

*Haven’t eaten this yet, but if I have a snack sometime this evening this will be it.

Recipe- Spinach and Wild Garlic Pizza

Ingredients:
1 pizza crust
1/2 cup cheese sauce
2 cups torn spinach leaves
1 1/2 cups shredded Italian cheese blend
1/4 cup shredded wild garlic
2 small tomatoes, thinly sliced
oregano *optional

Directions:
1- Pre-heat oven to 425*F/210*C. Prepare pizza crust, and lay on pizza pan. Pinch up the sides to form a thicker edge.

2- Evenly spread the cheese sauce over the crust


3- Evenly spread the spinach over the sauce


4- Spread the cheese

5- Sporadically lay the wild garlic, then add the tomato slices and sprinkle with oregano

Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the crust edges are light brown

TIP- Brush the crust with melted butter for a slightly softer crust

*This pizza is a little too brown on top- Hubby was supposed to be watching it while I changed a diaper!

YUM! Hope you enjoy :)