Semi-homemade pizza

The West Orange Whole Foods finally has Daiya cheese!!!  I have been waiting waiting waiting for this day.  So though I was there to pick up convenience foods for that day, I grabbed a bag each of 'mozzarella' and 'cheddar' styles for future use. 

I've been working on our taxes this week and there's been much eating and cooking on the fly. 

The day after I picked up the Daiya, I spotted some Gillian's GFCF pizza dough in our Whole Foods and decided I'd make pizza for dinner the next night.  I plucked a can of 365 tomato sauce off a shelf while I waited for GFCF Kid's salmon sushi.

So last night, in the final throes of reading and rereading dull and user-unfriendly instructions, doing and redoing figures, and filling and refilling out forms, I made a quick dinner of pizza and (leftover) veggie soup.

The pizza dough was ready to be kneaded and rolled having sat in the fridge overnight to thaw.  I was surprised by how much flour it took to work the dough.  Don't be shy or it'll get sticky on you.

GFCF Kid hadn't met a non-dairy cheese he liked (hence the expression of ambivalence).  He has never had non-non-dairy cheese.  For the sauce, I poured the can into my tiny pot and heated it.  I added olive oil, black pepper, garlic powder, minced dried onion, dried basil and sugar.  I used less than half the can for this pie.

I ended up using the whole bag of cheese, which turned out to be too much for my taste...mostly because it's pretty salty.

Why GFCF pizza?  Is it truly pizza if it's GFCF?  I can appreciate resistance and reluctance to replicating dishes whose essences seem so undone and reworked.  But, for me, pizza is worth trying to recreate.  Because I love cheese pizza.  As do The Omnivore and Red Sox Daddy.  And, somehow, it has been a goal of mine to make a cheesy pizza for GFCF Kid to try and enjoy.  Daiya cheese levels the playing field.  This stuff is awesome.

For a quick-to-make simple meal, look no further than this semi-homemade pizza (to which you can add any matter of toppings...GFCF Kid ended up shredding and topping on deli ham to his) and veggie soup.

(GFCF Kid did not love the pizza.  But, he ate it willingly, especially when he added the ham.  He does like Red Sox Daddy's no-cheese pizza.)

(Also, this was not a cheap pizza to make...I paid for the convenience: $5 for the pizza dough, $4 for the cheese and $2 for the sauce.)