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Mar 25, 2025
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hi and welcome to real food live I am
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Christy Lapointe aka plant-based Christy
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trainer all right what are we making
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today and kale pizza crusts so we're
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actually making the pizza crust out of
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spinach and kale give you a lot of tips
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and tricks on how to do this it's really
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simple really fast minimal ingredients
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alright so stay tuned send us in your
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questions
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welcome to real food live
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all right so welcome back to real food
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lives Lisa get us started okay so guys
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as a pizza lover and being from an
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Italian background I absolutely adore
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pizza we're gonna give you a simple
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recipe here pizza is so great it's so
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easy to make it's delicious it's fun to
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make it as part of your weekly meal but
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what I love most about pizza is that
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it's shareable so you can share it with
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family and friends so you've got to be a
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sentiment of it there is foodies yeah we
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have to do this so with kale and spinach
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crust it's gluten free dairy free of
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course for fine sugar free and it's a
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Whole Foods pizza because it's just made
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of whole foods that's great yeah and we
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use kale because it's kind of a beefier
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vegetable it's obviously a complete
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powerhouse superfood but it's a beefier
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vegetable so it kind of holds up my
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beefier like mom you have to do it it's
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Hardy so it kind of gives that nice
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hearty heavier texture and with crust
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and dough you need that you need that to
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kind of stick and bond together so we're
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using four cups of kale right here and
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one cup of spinach so what I'm gonna do
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with these two is put them in a pen and
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just wilt them for about one to two
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minutes with a little bit of water get
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them a little bit softer and then toss
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these in the blender right do that okay
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okay so so Lisa's gonna wilt those up
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Lisa why are you wilting them explain it
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yeah so I find that wilting it creates a
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softer texture for the dough okay Joe
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and it's it's a lot easier to blend that
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way as well that's really smart what
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about could you steam them a little bit
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too like likely and you can even just
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grab a small pot or a medium sized pot
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fill it with water and you've been
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chopped everything and toss it in for
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about one to two minutes and then strain
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it
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I'm coming this way easier and then
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totally heard it so we're just softening
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just soften kale and spinach
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especially with kale as we said it's
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it's a little tougher yeah and we want
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to
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not a little bit okay so that's gonna be
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about one to two minutes here great
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we'll take that up all right so yeah I'm
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looking ahead I don't know if I've
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allowed you to some of these other
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ingredients and I can't help but notice
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we have my beloved nutritional yes
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so the nutritional yeast is an
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alternative to parmigiano cheese and you
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say that again she loves that
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pronunciate and it it's great because
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this is the binding agent Oh interesting
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this along with egg will bind the dough
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and keep it nicely in the form of what
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we want okay and so this isn't a vegan
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obviously dish but we could simply make
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it if we replace the eggs with a flax
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egg all right so yeah totally flax egg
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or Chia egg so for vegans or anyone with
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egg allergies or sensitivities I'm very
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intrigued and this might be another one
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of your recipes Lisa that I will try
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myself vegan eyes on my instagram at
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plant-based Kristy what's next it's very
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very easy so like I said it's all about
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the blender I'm all about five to six
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ingredients so it's quick it's fast it's
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simple
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so once the kale and spinach is wilted
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I'm gonna throw that in the blender
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along with an egg 1 egg 1 cup of
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nutritional yeast 2 leaves of basil from
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my garden smell that they smell yeah so
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fresh okay so good and one teaspoon of
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salt and one teaspoon of pepper
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goes in the blender great blending it up
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so once those are wilted we'll do that
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in the meantime I can definitely add if
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there's no order that you have to do
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this in so I can definitely add this and
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get it going I like that the messy
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cooking me like just throw it in
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everything in the blender so what kind
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of salt
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are you using high-quality sea salt okay
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and so with salt people usually shy away
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from salt or eliminate salt out of their
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diet and it's really important that we
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still have salt in our diet because it
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is a mineral in moderation in balance
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not only does it make our food and bring
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out all the flavors in our foods but
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it's also an important mineral for our
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bodies to have right yeah absolutely so
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just to remember
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you guys can send us in your questions
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and we will be answering them in real
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time that's the whole point of doing
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this live all in one so good so here we
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go so there will ting right here so this
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takes about one to two minutes okay
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where the vegetables to wilt again it's
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just softening them up so we're not
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cooking them through looks so good so
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green so vibrant I really like the idea
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of trying a green pizza crust because
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I've never done that oh it's so good and
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I've had a lot of pizza in my day I know
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cauliflower pizza crusts are also very
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popular and that's quite popular right
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now as Mary but you know it's really
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great because you can change and switch
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up your pizza crusts so if you're doing
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this as a weekly you know meal yeah do
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one week do cauliflower beats acrost one
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week do the kale and spinach and kind of
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create something unique great yourself
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and I mean the nice thing with pizza
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especially making crusts is it's just a
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base the toppings are all it's all of it
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are so so different and make me so
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versatile week to week is and today for
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pizza crusts are sorry for pizza
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toppings we're gonna just do a nice
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simple traditional margarita pizza so
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that that includes you know your
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traditional tomato sauce some basil and
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then traditionally you're placing
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mozzarella or bocconcini or something
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like that on it to melt but for today
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because it is dairy-free what we're
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creating we I love to use enjoy yo so as
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the brand and they have a cashew cream
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cheese in a garlic herb it is fantastic
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so you can place dollops of that put it
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under the broiler and melt the cheese
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cashew is like yes a miracle nut to me
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it's so good I mean it's just a normal
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nut but it tastes like a dream and you
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know what you can make that as well on
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your own if you wanted to do like a
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cashew cream cheese jelly soak the
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cashews and maybe this is another
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residue yeah but soak the cashews
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overnight place them in a blender with
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whatever herbs you want and there you go
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yeah a little bit of lemon juice yeah
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it's the best
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I actually you're reminding me I have so
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homemade cashew cream in my fridge right
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now I'm gonna make something with it's
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just so good I think that's a great age
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s so wilted greens right weary so as you
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can see they're nice and soft and I
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placed two that basil leaves inside as
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well for the crust
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not only are we using it for the topping
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so we're putting it in in the crust as
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well basil inception yes I would put
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everything it's so good and we're just
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gonna chop this so you want a high speed
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speed blender like a Vitamix or
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something that can handle it or food
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processor say something you can do yep
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so I'm gonna open it up it just kind of
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mix it around here
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this is so intense it's going and you
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can actually stop this as well
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open it up whoa steaming just so with
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your your spatula or fork and you want
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to make sure you scrape the edges here
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as well so you can get all that goodness
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you were seeing oh I was just going to
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say so growing up I think Pizza is such
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a huge part of a lot of our lives and
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there's so many like emotions based
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around that yes this is a cool way to
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have pizza and a little bit healthier of
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a way exactly so there's no reason you
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can't enjoy all the great foods that you
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eat just you know alternating the the
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recipes and making them healthier yeah a
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little bit and instead of having to make
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it like a special food this can be just
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an anytime very healthy meal it could be
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even a snack it could be an appetizer
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service put an egg on it why not sure I
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would she's like I put some I don't know
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who's grandpa yeah but but yeah it could
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really be for not just a meal
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definitely for for an appetizer as well
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so simple easy done wow I can't believe
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how quick that one did and this is just
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in a very standard blender exactly you
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can imagine a food processor or Vitamix
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something that sort it blends really
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what do you do to stop it from
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liquefying then in a high like
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high-powered blender you want to chop it
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so we want to just do a brief yes or
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just put it on stop it mix it because
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with the Vitamix there's no chopping
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yeah option but you know what I've also
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made this recipe when it was a little
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bit more liquefied and it's actually not
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bad it still cooked great so you can't
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really mess this up guys so you're just
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gonna plop the I'm gonna call it dough
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right into the center of a baking sheet
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lined with parchment paper lovely just
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police it just like that does it smell
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so it smells so good and with the green
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it really kind of looks pesto easy
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doesn't it I like are you
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I like it too so and that's another
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great topping you can add to this pizza
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is a mast oh and even like dice your
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tomatoes almost like a bruschetta yeah
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that would be really sto pizza sounds
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very nineties to me it was very
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nostalgic I like it so I'm just scraping
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out all this yummy ingredients here and
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Christi do you want to grab another
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spatula so I can take do like amazing
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stuff out of off of this larger spatula
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here we don't want to leave any of that
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ingredients in here
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I found one yay victory there we go
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scrape it on out good oh yeah it does
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kind of stick it sticks to it that's the
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egg and the nutritional yeast right
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there okay I'm actually gonna switch
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with you you can hold this eating more
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regularly in your diet we want to hear
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about it even if you're watching this
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video later leave comments below and us
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or someone from the team will get back
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to you so we have it placed right in the
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center what I'm gonna do right now cuz
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you're probably all thinking well how is
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she going to spread this dough I'm not
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gonna spread it for once I'm actually
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not gonna get my hands dirty this is
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crazy I'm gonna get the pan and I'm
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actually gonna make it into a nice
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somewhat pizza circle here yeah so
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remember if it's a little bit more
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liquidy you're obviously not gonna be as
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hard with your yeah it's gonna just
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slide it so you'll be a little bit more
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gentle this one's a little thicker so we
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can you can be a little bit less gentle
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with it and so you're gonna create that
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circle
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it doesn't have to be a no circle or not
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at all big rectangle not at all so guys
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once you have your somewhat circle your
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perfect circle right
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sorry inspiration no the sharing yeah a
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unique the first of all so once you're
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done that you're gonna pop it into the
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oven at 425 and it's 20 minutes until
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golden brown okay what I like to do
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before I pop it in white when I pop it
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in it's not a hundred percent necessary
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but I like the fact that it becomes even
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crispier is i drizzle olive oil just
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randomly like this all over you could do
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Alfa kado oil if you like the taste of
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coconut oil you could do coconut oil and
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I do and you can just toss it right on
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and then pop it in for 425 so that's to
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make it crispier that's to make it even
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crispier yes so exactly Haley
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exactly we are fast guys so here it is
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here's our kale and spinach pizza crust
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as you can see you can pick it up just
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like any other pizza dough very simple
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to cut we're gonna dress that right here
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so let me dress that yeah so dressing it
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like I said you can you know choose
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whatever toppings you like today we're
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gonna do just a simple original
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traditional margarita so you're gonna
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place a few dollops of the tomato sauce
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this is just pureed tomato sauce with
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just a little bit of sea salt in it
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you can also buy ones with basil herbs
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in it whatever you like just make sure
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you check the ingredients and the sugar
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content make sure it's limited
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ingredients make sure it says tomatoes
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and sea salt only which tastes delicious
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but it's very easy to like unconsciously
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be consuming way too much of course and
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that's why it's so important to check
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the ingredient list I'm very lucky
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because my family and I we make tomato
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sauce every single year yeah yeah so I
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have tomato sauce for about a year
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last that long I got some tomato sauce
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this year for the first time ah good it
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turned out well ah good in the past I
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like a lot of stuff varying degrees oh
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yeah oh yeah success but yeah this year
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I don't know I don't know we're good
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yeah excited I'm excited for you that's
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awesome it was great so for those of you
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who really like cheese you could also
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sprinkle nutritional yeast on the top
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because it has that cheesy nutty flavor
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and I'm just gonna place my basil all
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pretty because I like well yeah you're
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definitely all about so this is for you
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if I was at home I bet gah
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what other piece of toppings do you
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usually like healthy yeah so I really
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like the traditional margarita and like
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I said I usually put the cashew cream
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cheese on it put it under the broiler
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for about five minutes let it melt it's
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probably our favorite one but you can
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also do a pesto toppings with some
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mushrooms I would cook just like lightly
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cook or saute the mushrooms and onions
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in advance and then put them on top and
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then just place it all in the oven
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afterwards for a little warm okay just
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to heat it I love me too I love
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mushrooms in general me too
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so this is it you have a pizza roller
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cutter that's a great question oh let's
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look why don't you so when we cut it
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it's really simple the pizza cutter is a
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lot more simpler than using a knife but
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you could always get scissors if you
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don't have any and just cut right down
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the center I like to do it in fours but
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if you have more people and it's an
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appetizer and you didn't want to make
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multiple these no okay we'll try with a
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knife you can so let's see I'm gonna I
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usually cut it with a pizza cutter or oh
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no it's perfect you know messing up the
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basil a little bit but that's okay we'll
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redress well redress it exactly there
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you go
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so I'm gonna cut this in fours here but
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like I said if you had more people you
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could cut it well an eighth so that is
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just a little taste
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breakfast recipe yeah this could
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similarly be sort of a grab-and-go snack
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or breakfast or meal exactly and if
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you're making it you can always take a
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couple slices the next day to work
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remember it's always about making extras
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so that you're prepared for the next day
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that's really smart
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yeah well this fries I've never frozen
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it and I don't think I would only
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because it's so fresh and I feel as
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though it would probably crumble after
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you take it out so I was saying yeah and
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I would say honestly it's so quick to
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make that you could just whip it up
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right yeah so try try Chari oh my gosh
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Brian please try it
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okay I'm gonna type or you know or not
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fantastic
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perfect so as you can see it's a nice
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crust
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it's thin it's nice and thin and
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actually traditional you know pizza from
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Italian pizza from Naples is this thin
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and in fact I like my pizza crust real
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really thin and crispy as you can see
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it's crispy here you know and you can
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leave it in a little longer if you like
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it even crispier so you're cooking it
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for about 20 minutes yes people know
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when it's done you'll see you'll start
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to see the ends crisp and curl up and
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then you'll start to see it's kind of
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funny because I'm like or until golden
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but it's obviously harder because it's
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green to see that but you do see you do
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see a coloration difference in the green
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so the reef in it deepens and almost
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gets a little bit of browning so that's
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how you know it's done and like I said
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you can always go in touch it and if you
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want it crispy or leave it in or throw
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on the broiler on high just make sure
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you're watching it cuz it can burn
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really quickly for five to six minutes
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and then bring it out great super simple
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what was that six ingredients - the
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toppings yes fast it's easy and that's
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what we're all about simple fast healthy
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dishes that you can do really quickly
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for you and your family and know that
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it's healthy and you're still enjoying
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the amazing foods and flavors that you
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used to if you did yeah yeah that's
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that's it we hope you had a great great
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