Pizza on a plate

I used to love a good pizza. I used to make pretty decent pizza, too, with sourdough crust and baked on a stone.

When I got into eating low carb, gluten free, I thought there would be no more pizza. Then I thought of a solution - pizza on a plate! You just treat a plate (oven proof, of course) as if it were a pizza base. Pile on the sauce and toppings, cover with cheese, bake, and tuck in. Of course you can't pick it up and eat it with your hands, but I can live with that.

It could also be pizza in a pan. Or pizza in a cup - that's a smaller, deep dish version in a ramekin.

This time it was actually a kind of meatza, the bottom layer being the remains of last night's bolognese, with mushrooms, onions, broccoli and dried tomatoes. It was very, very, good. I still haven't got around to trying proper meatza, but I will; that's where you take raw seasoned minced beef, flatten it out and pre-bake into a 'crust'. I can't claim any credit for that idea; that truly was a stroke of genius.