BRAD ATE CAULIFLOWER!!

This is a huge deal in our house.  Let's think about this for a second.  I am a vegetarian.  Who loves vegetables.  And weird grains.  And nut milks and a multitude of soy bean products.  Brad likes...jerky.  And beer.  The list of vegetables that he will willingly eat include corn and occasionally peas.  Grocery shopping for our family is a fun challenge.  (Willa likes grapes, yogurt and plain hot dog buns if you were wondering.)  So the other night when I finally got around to trying the cauliflower crust pizza that I saw on Pinterest, I figured either I would ruin it and no one would eat it, or it would be awesome and I would love it but Brad would hate it.  Either way, I had to try it.  The verdict is that it was really, really good.  And Brad ate it.  And he claimed to like it!  I'll post the recipe, as it was from Pinterest and then I'll walk through my alterations to the recipe.
Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Serves 2; Adapted from Your Lighter Side.

ingredients:

1 cup cooked, riced cauliflower
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp crushed garlic
1/2 tsp garlic salt
olive oil (optional)

pizza sauce, shredded cheese and your choice of toppings*

directions:

To "Rice" the Cauliflower:
Take 1 large head of fresh cauliflower, remove stems and leaves, and chop the florets into chunks. Add to food processor and pulse until it looks like grain. Do not over-do pulse or you will puree it. (If you don't have a food processor, you can grate the whole head with a cheese grater). Place the riced cauliflower into a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 8 minutes. There is no need to add water, as the natural moisture in the cauliflower is enough to cook itself.

One large head should produce approximately 3 cups of riced cauliflower. The remainder can be used to make additional pizza crusts immediately, or can be stored in the refrigerator for up to one week.

To Make the Pizza Crust:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup cauliflower, egg and mozzarella. Add oregano, crushed garlic and garlic salt, stir. Transfer to the cookie sheet, and using your hands, pat out into a 9" round. Optional: Brush olive oil over top of mixture to help with browning.

Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven. To the crust, add sauce, toppings and cheese. Place under a broiler at high heat just until cheese is melted (approximately 3-4 minutes).

Enjoy!

*Note that toppings need to be precooked since you are only broiling for a few minutes.

Ok, I don't own a food processor, which I realize more and more every day is dumb.  I just need to bite the bullet and go buy one, as a ton of my recipes call for them.  Sometimes I avoid making things that would probably be so good, just because I don't own one.  I also don't own a cheese grater.  So I put most of a small head of organic cauliflower in my magic bullet and blended it for quite awhile.  Admittedly, this took some time but I think it would be much quicker with the food processor.  Once I had blended about a cup of cauliflower and microwaved it for about 6 minutes, I added in the egg, cheese, oregano and garlic.  Spread it on my trusty Pampered Chef pizza stone and brushed it with olive oil.  This amount of mixture made a very small pizza.  It truly only does serve 2, and at that, I would make sure to have some sides if you're hungry.  I think I only baked the crust for about 12 minutes before the edges started to look pretty crispy.  I topped the crust with parmesan cheese, one large tomato, sliced, and lots of basil.  Stuck it under the broiler for a couple of minutes.  Oh wow.  It was good.  Brad even said that he wouldn't have guessed there was any cauliflower in the pizza if I hadn't told him.  I will say that the crust was a little bit more delicate than normal, but maybe that means I just didn't quite cook it long enough.  I don't know that I would ever use another store bought pizza crust again after trying it this way.  Picky eaters definitely earn bragging rights for trying this one!!!