Whole Wheat Pizza with Fresh Veggies

I love making pizza, it is perfect for a day of studying because it has different stages and punching pizza really get the blood flowing after long periods of staring at a screen. Also perfect for a ladies night in, a romantic dinner for two or for just for your parents.

Makes 1 pizza that serves 2, an easy recipe to double or triple J

Ingredients
• 2 tsp dry active yeast
• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 1 tsp sugar
• 3 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp salt
• A couple tablespoons of some kind of pizza sauce (either canned, pasta sauce or pesto)
• Enough cheese to cover your pizza (if you are using feta you may only need half a cup but you will need a cup of mozerella)
• Sliced vegetables (red onion, tomatoes, red pepper, green pepper, mushrooms, baby spinach, pineapple, olives)

My favourite pizza toping combinations:
The Sweetie Pie- tomato based sauce, mozeralla, red onion, red and green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and pinapple
The Savery Pie- tomato based sauce, mozeralla, red onion, red and green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and olives
Pesto Pie- basil pesto and mozerella
Greek Pizza- tomato based sauce, feta cheese, red onion, tomato, red pepper and olives

Directions
1. Pre-heat oven to 350*
2. Mix dry active yeast with sugar and add warm water. Let sit for 10 minutes
3. Use a wooden spoon to stir in 2 cups of whole wheat flour until well mixed, then add last cup of flour and salt (it will become increasingly hard to stir so you may need to take it out of the bowl and kneed it in), kneed for 6-7 minutes until smooth and elastic
4. Place dough in a pre-oiled boil (so that dough does not stick to inside of bowl as it rises) cover with a dry dishcloth and put on top of warm oven so it can rise
5. After dough has doubled in size (1- 1 1/2 hours) beat it down and roll onto greased tray (like many students I do not have a pizza pan or a rolling pin so I use a cookie sheet and a drinking glass)
6. Put back on top of oven for another 30 minutes then smooth on desired sauce, desired cheese and desired vegetables and place in oven
7. Bake for 30- 40 minutes and eat!

Fresh Strawberry Daiquiri

There is nothing more relaxing than sitting in my backyard with a nice glass of this drink on a sunny day. Of course this drink can also be made without the alcohol or even made into frozen popsicles.

Ingredients
• 1.5 oz rum
• 1 cup fresh strawberries, sliced
• 1 1/2 tsp honey
• 1 tsp lime juice
• 3-4 ice cubes

Directions
1. Blend
2. Pour
Enjoy

Vegetable Spring Rolls: Fresh or Crispy

I learned to make these in Vietnam at a cooking course I took there. It took a long time to explain that I am a vegetarian; they seemed to think that if someone can afford it they should eat a ton of meat.

Ingredients
• All vegetables should be thinly sliced like matchsticks. Quantities are not specified because it depends how many spring rolls you want to make.
• Carrot
• Cabbage
• Boiled white potato
• Green beans
• White mushrooms
• Green onion
• Yellow noodle, cooked
• Deep-fried tofu (can be found at Asian supermarkets)
• Chopped peanuts
• Round rice paper (can also be found in Asian supermarkets)
• Vegetable Oil (enough to cover, not just coat, the bottom of the frying pan you are using)
Dipping Sauce
• 1 tbsp chopped peanuts
• 1 tbsp ketchup
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp hot chili sauce
• Dash of fish sauce

Directions
1. Prepare vegetables, tofu and yellow noodles
2. Cut in half, half as many rice paper sheets as spring rolls you plan to make (each spring roll consists of one and a half sheets with the vegetable mixture on the double layered portion.
3. Moisten and fold a dishtowel placing one full sheet of rice paper as well as one of the half sheets in between the folded dishtowel.
4. Leave for a minute then place the half sheet of rice paper on the full sheet.
5. Arrange vegetables, tofu and peanuts on the half sheet. Roll as you would a burrito and tuck in the ends
6. If you are eating the spring rolls fresh move on to making the Dipping Sauce and enjoy, if not heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
7. When the oil is hot drop the first spring roll in (you will know its hot enough because the roll with crackle when dropped in the oil) carefully fry all sides of the roll until it bubbles. Be careful not to burn the spring rolls, rice paper is delicate and burns easily if left.
8. After frying place rolls on a folded paper towel to remove excess oil.
9. Prepare dipping sauce and enjoy!