Nutritional Yeast with Pizza Recipe

Nutritional yeast. What is it? I've never heard of it until this past Friday when our lead cook gave us a sample of a pizza with nutritional yeast in it. According to this site, it is an inactive yeast popularly used by vegans. It is high in vitamin B12 and can be substituted as protein. It can either be used as a condiment or a supplement.

Billy and I decided to visit Down to Earth this past Saturday so that I could purchase the nutritional yeast. I wanted to replicate the pizza the cook had made. We purchased it in the bulk bins. Warning: 1 pound will set you back $10.xx. If you haven't seen one before,  it is flakey and has a yellow color to it. Since it was my first time purchasing this item, I decided to get a small amount. That way I wouldn't waste money if I hated it. 

I finally got to make it last night. I purchased the rest of the ingredient from my local grocery store. FYI, the store was out of fresh basil. I opted for basil paste which was a great substitution because I ended up spreading the paste over my bread giving my pizza more flavor. This is very easy to prepare and does not really need any measurements as everything was done to to taste, but just in case, this is what I had done. The recipe makes for two pizzas. Prep time takes about 5 minutes and cook time is 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

2 whole pita breads

4-6 slices of tomato 

basil paste

olive oil

salt

pepper

4 pinches of nutritional yeast 

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 355 degrees fahrenheit

2. Place pita breads on the baking pan / flat surface for baking and pour a small amount of olive oil to both breads. Spread the olive oil over the bread.

3. Squeeze a small amount of basil paste and spread over the bread. *if you have fresh basil, get a few leaves and cut them into thin strips to be spread on the pita bread.

4. Add in tomato slices (as much or as little as you want)

5. Add salt and pepper

6. Sprinkle about two pinches of nutritional yeast to each pizza - add more if needed.

7. Bake for 15 minutes

I hope you enjoy it :)

Cinco de Mayo at Sea Life Park

Twenty years living here in Hawaii and I've never been to Sea Life Park.  How about that, huh? Fortunately, a friend of ours invited Billy and I to the park today. Thank you Brad!! The company he worked for had rented the whole park for their employees who in turn were able to invite friends and family. I was so excited :) 

The entrance to the park was neat. We got to see an aquarium full of fishes and hammerhead sharks. We then proceeded to where the turtles were. Radioactively huge! I'm just kidding. They weren't radioactive, but they were humongous! In honest truth, there weren't really many animals to see but they were worth watching.  There were two performances today; the sea lions and the dolphins. We missed more than half of the sea lion performance but I enjoyed watching the rest of it. My favorite of course had to be the dolphins.  I had never seen dolphins in real life before and seeing them for the first time was amazing. I hadn't realized how humongous they were. It amazes me as to how they were trained. Such smart creatures!  I have a clip below of their performance. Here are a few pictures of todays activities.

Billy feeding a bird

From the park, with love.

Large (radioactive)  sea turtle

Dolphins performing!! FUN FUN FUN!

Free ice cream ticket

Have a good day!

The bug has bitten again...

The bug has bitten someone, the travel bug I mean. My mom, after living here for 20 years has finally set foot out of Hawaii. Her first one was in Seattle last fall and her most recent one, the Philippines. I love the fact that she finally has time to travel because she had been focusing all her energy on us (her kids) all these years.

While there (in the Philippines), she saw family and old friends. Twenty years of not seeing them must have been something! I can't imagine how delighted she must've been to finally hug/kiss/talk to them, especially her brothers and sisters, in person. She stayed there for almost four weeks, only calling home twice. I forgive her. ;p Anyway, she finally came home this Thursday and she had a lot of stories to tell and pictures to show. She also brought a ton of treats. I shall enjoy them highly. 

Guinness says hello! He just finished eating dinner