naan pizza X

naan bread pizza

for tonight's quickie dinner (i have almost nothing in my fridge but a variety of half used vegetables and some yogurt) (also, a freezer full of odds and ends requiring pre-meditated thawing, which i have never been good at--unless i wanted a meal of waffles, tater tots and sweet potato fries...ew) i yanked out some frozen naan bread (because, blessedly, naan bread is so thin i took it out, and it thawed while i worked out) and threw my pizza brick in a super hot oven--500 degrees.

since i know for pizza to be especically delicious, your brick needs to be very hot i let it preheat for an hour. normally i wouldn't let it go this long but while it heated up i popped in a P90X video from the collection of workout dvds sam burned for me.


let's be honest, i gotta work it if i'm going to be eating all of (literally, who else is going to eat it all--i.e. chocolate mousse pie) the things i post on here. the video i did was Kenpo X, which is basically karate-ish/boxing kicks and punching etc. and its....58 minutes long. which you could gather from the aforementioned preheat time. i'm very tired, and my arms very sore. it was kind of fun though, even though i am very sweaty and thankful at times like these i live alone...and that no one can watch me punching and kicking the air like a crazy.

so anyway, i made pizza for dinner because i had some naan (an excellent crust ANYTIME, not just when you have nothing else in your house to eat but paper towels) and i needed to finish off my log of fresh mozzarella (which i always seem to have now) and i just bought some marinara sauce at Trader Joe's (my new favorite place ever....it's so cheap! and cool, and well...i'm a sucker for grocery stores. whatever)

also, i bought some fresh mushrooms...at some point in the past...and needed to use some of them before the fungus began growing its own fungus. so i spread some sauce, sliced and spread out some mozz, and sliced mushrooms and baked for about 7ish minutes. the end result was a little burnt (even for my taste, and i like things a little overcooked) but the cheese was at that nice, fully melted chewy stage. i sprinkled it with a tiny bit of kosher salt and dug in!

by the way--i don't know if anyone else has trouble finding good bottled sauce--i like Ragu because that's what i've eaten since, well forever--but it has many more calories than i would like to consume. i was using Classico tomato and basil for a while which is pretty good, 50 calories a serving (as opposed to Garden Medley Ragu at 80) but it wasn't like my favorite sauce. when i poured it on my pasta i didn't like relish every bit and lick my bowl or anything...half because i am civilized and have manners (at times) but half because i was only really eating it for its inoffensive caloric properties.

i know pretty much no one who reads this--that i know of--(except sam! get it!!) can access Trader Joe's, but the sauce i got is really tasty--AND 60 calories a serving! (honestly, i scoured every bottle until i found a reasonable one but it paid off) it's Trader Giotto's Tomato Basil Marinara.