Sequestration Meal #410

 

Life doesn't always go according to our plans. Sometimes, we discover, midway through our meal plan, that the Violife mozzarella has gone moldy, but we still really want pizza. So we make pizza with homemade mozzarella cheese balls (recipe from Minimalist Baker), but something goes a bit wrong and the mozzarella balls, although delicious, do not melt. So our pizza looks weird. But we live with it.

The crust, incidentally, is also homemade; between homemade crust and homemade cheese I imagine you'll overlook my jarred sauce and ready-made Tofurky sausage. There are also broccoli and mushrooms here, because that was what I was in the mood for, and a dusting of Violife Parmesan (that hadn't molded!), but that cheese disappeared into the sauce and you can only see it on the sausage for whatever reason.

I keep seeing people complaining about how they want to give up dairy but still want to have pizza; if the usual cheese substitutes don't appeal to you, this might work. I found that I liked this better with a homemade ranch dressing drizzled over my slice, and I genuinely would have enjoyed that even if there wasn't this lovely arrangement of lumpy cheese (okay, cashews and nutritional yeast held together with almond milk and tapioca flour, but we're calling it cheese--lovely, lumpy cheese). The cheese tasted amazing, but just didn't behave the way I wanted it to. I would probably make it again, but put it on the pizza in smaller, scattered lumps, to avoid having them be these big pieces, in the future.

We do what we can.