quick bites - 5 minute pizza

Toaster Oven Pizzetta

Had a late breakfast today and wanted a snack around 3:00 pm. We had leftover tortillas from making breakfast burritos... Been thinking of making pizzettas with them and bought cheese especially from Whole Foods yesterday. The guy at the cheese counter was very helpful, not only did he recommend the Taleggio for making pizza, I found out something great; that Whole Foods will cut down their pre-wrapped cheese wedges and sell you an amount that you want. I'd been avoiding buying cheese because we've found it impossible to consume the sizeable slabs before they turned into lab experiments.

Jimmy had started snacking by eating his consuming passion of the season - figs; this time wrapped with leftover prosciutto. It hit me that that could be potentially great as a pizza topping...

So I started yanking from the fridge-
leftover tortillas
partial bag of arugula
remaining prosciutto slices
roasted tomato slices
roasted garlic
Mission figs
delightfully small wedge of Taleggio cheese
chopped green onions

Fig, Prosciutto, Roasted Garlic and Taleggio Pizzetta

I smeared 2 cloves of roasted garlic onto a tortilla, tore the soft Taleggio and prosciutto into small pieces and distributed it evenly. The figs were sliced into rounds and layered next. Finally, I sprinkled some leftover chopped green onions for color. I set the toaster oven to broil, slid in the pizzetta and waited till the cheese bubbled and the tortilla got browned on the edges. Success! We wolfed that one down and went on to make a different flavor.







Roasted Tomato, Arugula, and Taleggio Pizzetta

First, I distributed pieces of the cheese, followed by a layer of arugula, then the slices of roasted tomatoes, and finally some thin sliced onion. I drizzled a small amount of olive oil and slid the tortilla into the oven the few minutes for the cheese to bubble. That one got eaten pretty quick too.







I think we'll keep tortillas on hand - and they seem to freeze well too!