Today was such a beautiful, beautiful summer day…and I was looking out from inside working! I am leaving for my trip on Thursday so today was a workday to get ahead of the game for the work week.
I also organized another cupboard.
Yes, that is the after picture. ;)
For lunch, I was craving chickpeas, but I wanted to put a fun pizza twist on them…
I love chickpeas because you can dress them up or dress them down or turn them into delicious burgers. The options are endless!
Chick Pea-za
It’s a ‘cheesy’ name, so I thought it was fitting for this recipe. ;)
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups cooked chickpeas
- 1/4 cup pizza sauce
- 1/4-1/2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp nutritional yeast
- 1/2 tsp pizza seasoning (see below)
- 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- Pinch of sea salt
- Ground black pepper
Directions: Option 1) Mix together and serve without baking (my fav way!). Option 2) Bake –> If baking, preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with parchment. In a small bowl mix all ingredients except the dried parsley. Scoop mixture onto baking sheet and sprinkle dried parsley over top. Bake for 25-30 mins. watching carefully. Serve with pizza sauce.
This is the pizza seasoning I used below. I found it this morning when I was cleaning out my cupboards. Score.
These Chick Pea-zas were delicious, but to be honest I liked them best before baking them. The flavours were more pronounced and they were more moist and saucy. :)
Before baking…
I added some pizza sauce since they were dry after baking. They were delicious with the pizza sauce, but I would save yourself 30 mins. of baking and just eat them straight from the bowl after mixing.
For dessert, I had delicious apple cupcakes!
O-b-s-e-s-s-e-d.
I topped one half with 1 tbsp of crumbled Glo Bar and White Chocolate Wonderful Peanut Butter.
Side note: I don’t love the White Chocolate Wonderful Peanut Butter as much as I thought I would. It tastes good, but after eating it a few times I think it is too sweet for my taste. I also find when I eat it, it makes other non-sweetened nut butters taste bad and bland. I don’t think I would buy this again.
On the other half I topped it with half of a mini Ultimate Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookie and crunchy natural peanut butter.
Insert: Mmmmmmm this is the best apple ever.
Tonight’s plans: Start packing, Yoga for Runners, dinner, NCIS. <–I forgot to mention we are addicted to NCIS– currently on season 5. :) Any NCIS fans out there? I am in complete love with every character on the show…I could gush and gush about it…
Have a great night!
I have been cleaning out pantry cupboards like crazy too. Do you seem to throw away loads of expired items too??
Ever tried chickpea flour? Some middle eastern cultures use this to make flatbreads/pancakes and I have also heard of newer recipes that use it to make pizza! Can’t wait to try your recipe though, sounds easy and more importantly yummy!