So Mini Pizzas

It took me a long time to convince Ben to try tortilla pizzas, so I thought I'd better make the most out of this opportunity. To that end, we've tried two kinds of sauce tonight: one completely new and one not so completely new.

The sauces:

Sauce #1 Cilantro-Pea Pesto

1/2 bunch of cilantro 
3/4 cup peas (roughly equal to the amount of cilantro added)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and black pepper to taste

Blend ingredients (food processor would work better than a blender). We had to add water to get things moving in the blender, maybe 1/4 cup.

The cilantro is a nice amount of spice balanced by the sweetness of the peas. Ben and I really like this sauce and we think it could work in a lot of other foods. Ben tried it as salsa later in the night and commented that it would be pretty good with more salt. I'm going to use it as salad dressing tomorrow. Obviously it would also be good on pasta.

Sauce #2 Tomato Sauce With a Twist That Ben and Carolyn DO NOT RECOMMEND 

Ben did his usual pizza sauce but added cumin. I'm not sure why. I blame the heat. In his defense, he thought he was added only a small, subtle amount. As we found out, there is no such thing as a subtle amount of cumin. 

Eh. I think I liked this better than Ben did. I'm not sold on cumin for pizza, but I think we can make it work in another venue. Indian mock-pizza, anyone?

Our original plan for dinner was to make a regular old pizza, with regular old pizza dough, in the regular old oven. But, if you had spent any amount of time in my apartment today (forecasted high today was 90 degrees and I've only got a tiny, inefficient box A/C) you would understand why we were loath to turn on the oven. Instead, we made tortilla pizzas in a skillet on the stove. I won't write up a formalized recipe. Simply replace pizza dough with tortilla and go from there. I cooked at medium heat for at least 5 minutes, or until the bottom of the tortilla was slightly browned and the cheese was melted. I was careful to go light on the sauce and toppings so that the tortillas weren't overburdened.