Tanya’s First Attempt At Making Gluten Free Pizza

I've been eating gluten free for several years now. Sometimes it's a challenge! Sometimes its awkward when you're places and can't eat the food. Sometimes I just eat it anyway! But I know I have an allergy and will suffer. I tend to eat a lot of chicken and salads. Its easy and I know it wont bother me. But lately I've been dying for some garlic pizza, and I decided to attempt to make it homemade and make a gluten free crust.

I made gluten free for myself and a regular crust pizza for the kids. I ended up getting Bob's Red Mill pizza crust mix, where you mix water, eggs and oil. So here's the recipe I used and you can try this at home. This made two pizzas, one gluten free and one regular. I also only used half of the gluten free crust because it actually makes two pizzas, but I could never eat two so I put half in the freezer.

Pizza crust prepared according to packages

1 large onion

1 large tomato

several cloves of garlic, chopped

Parmesan cheese

3 cups of mozzarella cheese

Fresh Basil

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

I sliced the onion and tomato VERY thin and drizzled with olive oil and salt and pepper and roasted. Sprinkle the pizza crust with the chopped garlic, roasted tomato and onions and Parmesan cheese and bake till almost done. Then put on the fresh basil and 1 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese on each pizza and bake till melted.

The pizzas were GREAT! In fact, Caleb and I ate while Alexis was at swimming, and when she came home I threw the regular pizza back in the oven to warm it up a little bit. I walked away and came back and noticed her eating pizza and saying "this is so good". She actually was eating the gluten free pizza and had no idea so that tells you it tasted good!

The one thing I did learn about making gluten free crust is it takes TWICE as long to cook, maybe more, and I preferred the edge of the crust because it was crunchier and tasted less "doughy". So next time I'm going to cook it a little longer than I did last night. By the way

, the round pizza is the regular crust and the rectangle is the gluten free crust.

Do you guys have any other tips for me for the next time I make pizzas?

We are having a huge, fun cooking demonstration and I'm hoping they can give me some great tips. You guys can be apart of it too! All the details are here.