{"id":13517,"date":"2011-05-06T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:21:56","slug":"enchilada-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/05\/enchilada-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchilada Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza4-05-05-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13520\" title=\"Enchilada Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza4-05-05-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza4-05-05-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza4-05-05-11.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Setting: Kitchen and Home Office, Tuesday afternoon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Hey what do you want on your pizza this week?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him:<\/strong> Muhmphfh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> What? Meat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him:<\/strong> BEANS!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Oh beans. Oh, hrm.\u00a0 Okay. Mashed or whole?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him:<\/strong> Whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Pinto or black?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Him: <\/strong>Pinto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Done.<\/p>\n<p>And that is how the enchilada pizza came to be born.\u00a0 Scott said he wanted beans on his pizza this week which is a really odd request, right?\u00a0 So it occupied my mind for quite some time as I tried to figure out how I was going to work this pizza out.\u00a0 I brain stormed about it for awhile and finally came up with my master plan.\u00a0 It was going to be reminiscent of eating an enchilada.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until Wednesday where I realized that it would be totally fitting since Thursday was going to be Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza-05-05-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13522\" title=\"Enchilada Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza-05-05-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza-05-05-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza-05-05-11.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/03\/spelt-pizza-dough\/\" target=\"_blank\">regular pizza crust<\/a>. Had I had a finer ground cornmeal on hand, I would have made a cornmeal based crust.\u00a0 If you have that, go for it!\u00a0 It would be amazing!<\/p>\n<p>I made an enchilada sauce to use in place of pizza sauce. I&#8217;m still tweaking this recipe so you&#8217;ll have to wait on that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost there so it shouldn&#8217;t be too long before I can make it again and finalize it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza3-05-05-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13519\" title=\"Enchilada Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza3-05-05-11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza3-05-05-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza3-05-05-11.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The toppings were based off the original bean request.\u00a0 I mixed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 15oz can of Pinto Beans, drained and rinsed<\/li>\n<li>1 Green Pepper, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 Red Onion, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>Almost a cup of corn kernals<\/li>\n<li>Huge bunch cilantro, chopped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mixed them in a bowl and added in some salt, pepper, and touch of chili powder.\u00a0 Topped it with the juice of 1\/2 a lime and\u00a0 a bit of olive oil.\u00a0 Mixed and let sit in the fridge all day until pizza time.\u00a0 I used the olive oil to help keep the beans hydrated during cooking.\u00a0 Otherwise they could have dried out.<\/p>\n<p>I used two cheeses for topping.\u00a0 A chihuahua that we shredded ourselves and also a pepperjack made from milk from grass-fed cows, which we also shredded ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza5-05-05-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13521\" title=\"Enchilada Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza5-05-05-11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza5-05-05-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza5-05-05-11.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Layers went as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heaping layer of sauce<\/li>\n<li>Chihuahua cheese<\/li>\n<li>Bean mixture<\/li>\n<li>Pepperjack cheese<\/li>\n<li>Chorizo on Scott&#8217;s side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Baked at 425 for about 20 minutes on a pizza stone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza2-05-05-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13518\" title=\"Enchilada Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza2-05-05-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza2-05-05-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/enchilada_pizza2-05-05-11.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The pizza was amazing.\u00a0 It came out exactly as I hoped it would, in fact probably better.\u00a0 When the cheese is bubbling up and over the side, you know that you are about to eat something that will be remembered for a while.<\/p>\n<p>This was an ooey gooey pizza full of flavor and very filling.\u00a0 Though we did each go back for another slice!\u00a0 I also wanted to top the pizza with chopped avocado once it came out of the oven but we were so terribly hungry by the time we go to eat last night that it slipped my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll definitely make sure to add that for next time because there will be a next time for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Very successful Pizza Thursday this week!\u00a0 <strong>Did you do something special for Cinco de Mayo?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting: Kitchen and Home Office, Tuesday afternoon Me: Hey what do you want on your pizza this week? Him: Muhmphfh! Me: What? Meat? Him: BEANS! Me: Oh beans. Oh, hrm.\u00a0 Okay. Mashed or whole? Him: Whole. Me: Pinto or black? Him: Pinto. Me: Done. And that is how the enchilada pizza came to be born.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[69],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}