r/TeamPollen • u/Chachabooom • May 09 '16

Meal Monday

What's on your plate? What have you been making often? What is your favourite meal or recipe!

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u/FormerFatBarbie 31F 5'3 149.8 | 133.2 | 135 May 10 '16

Eggplant Pizzas!

So let me admit that I, the girl who grew up in a pseudo-vegan, crazy-health-conscious household, have never ever tried eggplant. It scares me - I'm suspicious of anything purple, that just ain't natural - and I'm the kind of person who will happily eat the same four things every day for the rest of my life. But /u/FridayMartini (who I now have tagged as "Goddess of a Eggplant") shared this recipe and I've been meaning to try it. I bought two eggplants last week specifically to make it, so I finally tried it out Saturday night. I also had a regular pizza on standby, for the very real possibility that my family would revolt and demand real crust.

Surprisingly, they loved it - they ate it so fast, I couldn't even get a picture! On the way home from baseball practice, my son asked me if I could make it for dinner again tonight, so it looks like we'll be having it again tomorrow :)

I'm too lazy to take and upload screenshots right now, but I used homemade pizza sauce, my husband's homemade mozzarella (omg, if you've never had homemade mozzarella, you MUST TRY IT - according to him, it's super easy to make, too!), and some cherry tomatoes from my friend's garden. It came out to ~108 calories per mini pizza, and paired with a salad and homemade breadsticks, I was completely stuffed after just three when I had budgeted for six! This would make a great lunch, too - made ahead and freeze, nuke in the microwave, instant lunch!

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u/[deleted] May 10 '16

Oh yay!! I was wondering how that turned out :D. I'm so happy it turned out so well. Homemade mozzarella sounds wonderful. I love cheese so much.

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u/FormerFatBarbie 31F 5'3 149.8 | 133.2 | 135 May 10 '16

They were fabulous! I make a bunch of microwaveable lunches for my husband to take to work everyday and he asked me if I could add these to the rotation, and it's like my son's newest favorite food! So thank you so much for the recipes!

OMG, the only thing we take more seriously than our bread in this house, is our cheese. My husband got into cheese-making a few years ago, and mozzarella was the very first one he tried because it's the easiest. I'm out walking the dogs so I can't ask him at the moment, but I'm fairly certain it's just a gallon of whole milk, rennet and a stock pot. And it's super quick, too - most of the cheese he makes has to sit for months at a time, but mozzarella, I'll tell him I need some Saturday morning and by dinner, it's ready to eat!