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!
LOVE…LOVE….LOVE….NCIS!!!!! LOL
I love the apple muffin idea. Yum yum yum.
Hi Angela, I love reading your blog but I don’t think I’ve ever commented to tell you that. Maybe the apple cupcakes convinced me? Haha can’t wait to make them! They look divine!
Will definitely be trying, and featuring, your recipe on my site! LOVE APPLES!
You are so creative! The chickpeas and apple cupcakes both look delicious and so simple. :)
I LOVE peanut butter BUT surprisingly I don’t really like the White Chocolate Wonderful either! I got a jar as a present years ago, used it once and kept it in my pantry for over a year before finally tossing it.
Those apples look wonderful :)
I totally agree with you about White Chocolate Wonderful; it is way too sweet for my taste! My favorite PB is plain old organic from Trader Joe’s where the only ingredient is peanuts, so sweetened PB always tastes super sweet to me.
The chickpeas look delicious!
I had the same problem with the white chocolate wonderful. It’s funny because for actually chocolate I LOVE white chocolate and can’t stand dark. But for those peanut butters, I LOVE the dark chocolate dreams.
Loooove the idea of pizza roasted chickpeas!! Also, with you on the Peanut Butter & Co thoughts. Way too sweet for my liking. Sweetened nut butters taste like frosting to me, always have as I was raised on the natural stuff – Kraft never entered my household as a kid! :P
My husband and I are obsessed with NCIS! We are midway through season 7 and can’t wait to start DVR’ing the new season!
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!