Pizza Fritatta (Whole 30)

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What is it with people and the need to spoil movies for others?  I am not talking about movies that have been out a few weeks.  I am talking movies that just came out last night.  I am not unrealistic.  I know I can’t help hearing things about, say, Game of Thrones, Season 7.  It came out last summer.  Have all the spoiler filled conversations you want.  I’ll just excuse myself until the subject is changed.  It isn’t reasonable to think people won’t be taking about it in public after a year.  It’s not your problem I haven’t seen it yet after a year.

But if a movie just came out last night, please be respectful that not everyone can get to the midnight showing or any showing for the first week.  I have avoided all social media, places were the fan boys will be talking, like comic shops.  I just want to enjoy a movie I have been looking forward to for a long time.

I couldn’t avoid having to work next to you and having you look right at me after I asked you to please stop because I haven’t seen the movie yet and having you proceed to tell me everything about it.  It isn’t funny.  It isn’t cute.  It is mean and a total bitch move so just stop.  End rant.

Okay, now on to the food portion of this post.  One of the last times I posted, I gave you a recipe for Italian Sausage.  This post I am giving you a recipe to use Italian sausage.  Isn’t that funny how that works?

Pizza Fritatta

From The 21 Day Sugar Detox Cookbook

1/2 lb ground pork

1 TBS Italian Sausage Seasoning blend

8 eggs

1 1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 cup tomato sauce

1/2 tsp basil

1/2 tsp dried oregano

1/2 tsp granulated garlic

1 TBS olive oil

1 bell pepper, sliced

5 mushrooms, sliced

3 green onions, sliced

1/2 cup black olives, sliced

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  In a medium bowl,  combine the pork and Italian Sausage Seasoning Blend.  Mix the pork and seasonings with your hands until well blended.  Heat a large oven safe skillet over medium heat.  When hot, add the pork and cook until no longer pink, breaking up the meat as you go.  Remove the pork from the skillet and set a side.

In a small bowl,  whisk together the eggs, salt, and pepper. In another small bowl, combine the tomato sauce, basil, oregano, garlic, and the remaining salt.  Set both bowls aside.

Heat the pan you cooked the pork in over medium heat.  Add the oil, when hot add the bell pepper and cook until it starts to soften, about 5 minutes.  Add mushrooms and coo until they soften slightly, about 2 minutes.  Add the meat back to the pan with most of the green onions and olives.  Stir to combine.

Pour the egg mixture into the pan and shake back and forth until the eggs cover the entire bottom of the pan.  Let cook for about 5 minutes or until the edges begin to set.

Drizzle the tomato sauce over the eggs.  Place the pan in the oven and cook for 8-10 minutes or until the eggs are set.  Insert a knife in the center of the fritatta, if it comes out clean it is done.

Italian Sausage Seasoning Blend (Whole 30)

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Ever since I was a little girl, the library has been my favorite place to hang out.  My favorite place in the library is in the rows and rows of cookbooks.   I love to pick out a random cookbook, take it home, get in the kitchen and cook from it.

I know a lot of people today, only hit the internet for their recipes.  I spend a lot of time there too.  The internet as we know it has only been around for about 30 years.  I took a class in 1990 to learn how to use it to its best advantage.  There are 1000’s of recipes out there that can only be found in cookbooks and I love to find them.

By going to the library, I can try out a cook book and see if I would cook from it before I go buy a copy.  I have found many of my favorite cookbooks this way.  I would never have looked at cook books like Mollie Katzen’s vegetarian The Enchanted Broccoli Forest or Mark Bittman’s  brilliant how to, How To Cook Everything.  Now Mollie Katzen and Mark Bittman’s cookbooks have an honored place in my own cookbook library.

I would have never bought a copy of Diane Sanfilippo’s, 21 Day Sugar Detox cookbook, if I hadn’t taken it out of the library to try.  I am just not interested in doing a sugar detox of any kind.  It would have been sad if I missed this cookbook though.  Most of the  recipes in it are really good and fit into a Whole 30 style of eating very easily.

I tried this Italian sausage seasoning blend so I could try  her Pizza Fritatta recipe (adaption coming soon) but I will keep using it because it makes awesome sausage patties and loose meat sausage.   I see sausage omelets in my next Whole 30.  This recipe makes enough for several batches of sausage.  Keep the leftovers in easy reach because you are going to want to use them often.

Italian Sausage Seasoning Blend

From the 21 Day Sugar Detox Cookbook

1 tsp kosher salt

1 TBS ground fennel seed

1  TBS  ground sage

1 TBS granulated garlic

1 TBS onion powder

1 tsp ground black pepper

2 tsp dried parsley, optional

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.  Store in an airtight container, in a cool, dry place.

To use:  Add 2 tablespoons to 1 pound of ground meat.  Mix well.


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