Pizza is L's favorite food. It has also been the hardest for me to replace. She is great with not having cheese on her pizza - she never liked it - and we can replicate the sauce no problem. The hardest is making a good crust.
In my continuing effort to make Paleo sustainable for our one parent to three special needs kids ratio, I was excited to try Julian Bakery's Paleo Pizza Crust. Sure their bread is disgustingly awful, but I had high hopes for the crust.
Making the crust was extremely easy. We added in water, mixed by hand, and was ready to put the crust in the oven in minutes.
The kids had fun molding their own mini pizza crusts.
We followed the directions and put the crust in the oven for ten minutes before adding toppings.
Then we added sauce which I had made by using one can of organic tomato paste, one can of purified water, and some organic oregano, garlic powder, and onion powder. I was amazed how easy it was to replicate pizza sauce.
Everyone got to pick their own toppings. Which means L only had pepperoni on her pizza. S went with salami and some onions. J decked his out with ground hamburger, green peppers, and some peperoni. I went with peperoni, green peppers, and onions.
Then we threw them back in the oven for a few more minutes. The directions say until the cheese melts - but hey some Paleo people do eat cheese.
When the pizzas came out of the oven I thought we had a winner. It was easy, fun, and looked like pizza. The texture of the crust was a bit off, and the taste was not amazing, but it was not bad either. Then L refused to eat her crust. In my quest to expand her pallet I would not let her eat anything else until her crust was gone. She has reminded me of that decision at least 15 times now.
About 15 minutes after eating the pizza I began to feel sick. I suspected it may have been the histamine in the tomato paste, and kept chugging along. Except the next morning both J and L woke up feeling miserable, complaining about a headache. S's eyes were surrounded by bright red rings - a classic sign that she has eaten something that did not agree with her.
The only new food in their diet was the pizza crust. I could not figure out how a crust that was soy free, gluten free, and even GMO free could make everyone so sick. My only hypothesis is that it was the xanthan gum. I cannot say with absolute certainty that it was the pizza crust that made them sick, but no one in our family is willing to try it again to make sure - the reaction was across the board bad. My kids do not even react this way when I let them have gluten free pizza from Dominos.
Our quest for the perfect paleo pizza continues.
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