I'm in love with medifast cauliflower crust pizza

really folks if you had told me that i would EVER be in love with a pizza that had a crust made out of grated cauliflower i'd have fallen on floor laughing. seriously, cauliflower seemed about 180 degrees away from anything pizza like, although i did have a great cauliflower dish in a tuscan town in 1999 that i've tried to recreate.

who thinks up using foods in such an unusual way?!!!! Medifast users are pros at this, they turn cream of tomato soup into sandwich rolls... the food group i miss the most is bread so i'm trying out bread like substitutes... and i know i will be losing weight doing it....  getting me closer to when my weight is low enough for me to start back running... what a happy day that will be.

i'm not sure who developed this pizza recipe but it is called Kurzweil's Cauliflower Pizza Crust based on a tutorial she posted on the internet

yesterday i assembled the ingredients and baked the crusts. figure i burned some cals grating the 2 cauliflower heads since i couldn't find the mini food chooper bowl

(where do my menfolk put 'strange' dishes in my house?!!!!)

 i didn't want to mess around with just making one serving so i had enough eggbeaters to make 8.5.
i had never eaten eggbeaters before starting medifast but i am a big fan now...

finally at 10:30 this a.m. i could wait no longer, i'd nibbled on a few broken pieces of crust yesterday that i really liked... but the real test would be when i added the toppings. would it be a 'PIZZA'......

i whirled canned italian diced tomatoes in the blender, added a scant 1/2 cup to the 'crust', 1.5 oz mozzarella cheese and several zucchini slices and green pepper strips. baked for 15 mins at 400 on parchment paper...let me just say:

YUMMY YUM YUM

i doubt one could hold the crust, the center was a little soggy, and eat out of hand but i slowly cut a fork full at a time (medifast guidelines stress taking 15 minustes to eat a meal.) i might spread the crust thinner or bake longer next time...
all the others are assembled w/ sauce, cheese, veggies and in the freezer...

so eating my lean and green meal starting at 10:45 is early in the day, it will be interesting to see when i get hungry. my normal L&G is 6oz of cooked chicken breast on a salad, w/ veggies eaten between noon and 1 p.m.. that pretty much keeps me full the rest of the day and i have to 'make' myself eat the rest of the MF meals... the 'secret' to the fullness factor is high protein.. takes stomach longer to digest protein.

i've been firmly on the medifast plan since Monday, hooray, little half a week blip off started by 4th of july and Sunday almost seasick is behind me.
now that i've done 3 wks of Medifast, i'm slowly trying some new things. the goal is to still not spend much time fixing food, keep it simple. if/when i get bored, then i will try more of the recipes

btw, i bought their lean and green meal cookbook. the recipes look fabulous and easy. i think it would make a great gift for a household of 1-2 people,
alrighty tooo much time on computer this morning, but a nice change of pace from starting my gardening at 5:20 a.m. this week.

here's the recipe:
crust
1 c grated cauliflower
1/4 c egg beaters
1/4 tsp italian seasoning
1 oz light ricotta cheese
1 oz light mozzarella cheese
mix together, line a cookie sheet w/ parchment paper, spray w/ none-stick spray,
spread the mixture out on parchement paper with back of spoon until dinner plate size.
you will have to experiment with cooking in your oven...
bake in preheated 400 degree oven 20-25 mins on one side, then flip and cook additional 15 mins. i found that the old fashioned cookie sheet placed on oven rack below the center got the crusts nice and browned. an air cooled double layer of metal cookie sheet was very hard to get the crusts to brown and crisp up

topping
1/2 c diced tomatoes, whirl in blender if you want smooth sauce
1.5 oz light mozzarella cheese
some slices of bell pepper, zucchini... maybe some spinach leaves or cherry tomatoes. i froze mine so i just used bell pepper, zucchini.
bake, 400degree oven on parchment paper, sprayed w/ none stick spray for approx  15 mins,
i like spicy pizza so i sprinkled red peper flakes after baking
gosh i should have taken pictures so you could see how much like a 'real' pizza it looked...
next time i will have a charged camera near by
let me know if you try the recipe, heck you don't even have to be on medifast or trying to lose weight, these are just plain yummy. course not being able to eat regular pizza currently probably made these extra good to me.
now let's be serious for a moment.... as good as i thought this was, it isn't real pizza. so don't go thinking it will match up to eating 5-6 slices of pepperoni pizza. but i was thoroughly happy with my meal.
EDIT: well it's the next day and let me say i am a little bit obsessed about cauliflower pizza in the freezer. guess i'll have to flip a coin to see if my L&G meal is pizza or grilled chicken salad...