PIZZA!!

I LOVE pizza, it is one of my favourite meals. Since discovering my food allergies pizza has become harder. I can no longer order anything from my local pizza place. Nor can I just grab a pizza base from the shops to add my own toppings. :(
To combat my soy allergies my wonderful finance bought me a bread maker. One of my favourite kitchen appliances, this thing can make all kinda of bread, cakes, jam, and dough. So now we just make up a batch of pizza bases and put them in the freezer, ready for that pizza craving. 
You can imagine my excitement when, hiding in the freezer, I find a pizza base. This week has been fun with the food but it just wouldn't feel right without a pizza. But then the questions become, what on earth am I going to put on my pizza? Unfortunately we've completely run out of fresh produce (luckily our veggie box comes tomorrow).  

*Panic*

Ok so after a few minutes of panic, debating whether or not I should just go and buy some ingredients, or just save the pizza for another time, I came up with a plan!

1. I found some cashews (about 1 cup) hiding in the cupboard. With these I made cashew cheese (see below). 

2. After having pulled everything out of my fridge and scrutinizing each item to see if I could use it on a pizza (Vegemite and  chutney pizza didn't sound right). I finally found the almost forgotten olives and artichokes. Both jars are mostly empty, but if I cut them up fine and spread it out I may just be ok. 

3. Now for some protein, I like eggs on a pizza but we only have a couple left and I really want eggs on toast for tomorrows breaky. (Tonight I'm going to tare apart my freezer for the forgotten bread end pieces for tomorrows toast.) But hidden in the back of one cupboard I found a packet of dried chickpeas. :) I'm saved! 

So in the end I have an olive, artichoke and chickpea pizza with cashew cheese/pizza sauce.  My pizza is not vegan, but if you were to use a vegan pizza base it would be. 

Cashew Cheese

Ingredients:

1 cup cashews, soaked for at least 1 hour1/4 cups water
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp tumeric
1 tsp chilli powder
salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

Drain and rinse the cashews. Place in blender / food processor with all other ingredients and combine. Once combined, taste to make sure the flavour is what you want.