Here there be dragons - AND Pizza! AKA - Dragon wing pizza! Recipe 9

The Thierbach girls, Greeny and Snapdragon!

OH I'm in pain today.   The horseback riding that I did this weekend did me in.  (This is what I get for not riding for years).  This just means I need to get back up on that horse.  Lol.
Regardless - I got the go ahead (24 hours later from the initial pain set up) to go ahead to the Theirbach house and make Dragon Wing Pizza - so, that is what I did.  And, guess what?  It was awesome!




I made sure that I had made the wing sauce, the ranch dressing and the hand tossed dough before hand (Monday) so that it was ready to go right away.   I do not know how to yet make vegan mozzerella, so it was Daiya to the rescue.  Luckily, my Theirbach friends are not picky and were all too embraceable of the Daiya as opposed to real dairy mozzerella.  I'm almost positive my un-celebrity chef will be vegan by the time she's 16.   Quote me on this - we'll see what happens.

Everything made and ready (pizza crust in fridge!)

So, here's how it all went down.
I had TWO un-celebrity chefs with me.   Elena and  Snapdragon.   While Snapdragon magically created our vegan wings for us, and put the fire in our wing sauce, Elena was in charge of putting both those things together onto the pizza to make it what it was supposed to be.   Not to be ignored was super side chef Christy who made us a gorgeous salad to go along with the pizza.  But for now - let's focus on the main dish - the reason we're here.. Fire Breathing Magical Dargon Wing Pizza!

So, let's review, shall we?   We started out with my first ever Vlog of the Vegan Un-Celebrity Chefs (And mind you not - if you're a celebrity chef of mine during this veganization thing for the next two years, we're going to have a throwdown challenge sometime in 2013 when it's all said and done where I'm going to have all the people who've eaten with me - eat a buffet that my un-celebrity chefs and I have thrown down - call it a "Thanksgiving" of sorts.. ya'll will love it.) This is why you want to be a 'tester' and I need more!!
So, let's see how this whole shebang started, shall we?

So, once that was done - (aren't we all so cute?)  We went ahead and started the cooking process.   Elena on wings, and I on pizza sauce.

Elena worked hard on those dragon wings in snapdragon fire!

The vegan ranch sauce and my saucy finger.

 

a moment to pose!

So, as Elena put the fire sauce (my vegan version of franks red-hot buffalo sauce) on the dragon wings, I prepped the pizza with my very own vegan ranch dressing.. then we posed a bit.   And when the wings were ready - we popped those magical things upon our pizza!

mmmmmmm

From that point it was Daiya to the rescue, so we got it together, opened our package and spread that beautiful vegan mozzerella all over our magical dragon wing pizza.

omyum!

Then, it went into the oven to bake for a bit.   While we were baking, we had another chef in the kitchen.  World renowned (ok, how about Wilder renowned) salad chef - Mrs Christy Theirbach.   Because she makes the best salads in history - and who can have pizza without a salad?
NOT ME!
NOT HER!
NOT ELENA!
NOT NOBODY!  (English - I took an English class once!)

Our salad chef, Christy, performing SALAD magic!

So, as the salad was being made - my un-celebrity chef did something really neat for our big night for me.   She popped in 'How to Train Your Dragon'  because I have not seen it yet.   I was very excited.   We didn't get to finish it, but we plan to watch the second half of it next week.   All in all, our dinner was absolutely successful, thanks to Elena, Snapdragon and salad chef Christy.   I have begun my un-celebrity chef-a-thon with a very good little vegan chef so far.  I hope to add another set of names to that list very very soon.. young, old, in-between!

On a side note - sauce that has real dragon fire in it - makes one a very giddy, silly, girl.   Try it.. if you're a girl.  I'm not sure it has the same effect on boys!
To end this blog - here are a couple more pictures of our dragony evening!

A close up of un-celebrity chef - Snapdragon

Greeny and Toothless, waiting for the movie!

excited, getting ready for the movie!

And I want to dedicate a lil song to my two first vegan un-celebrity chefs of the night last night.  This one is for you, Elena and Snapdragon!

click the link for your song, my lil songbirds!

 
Til next time, all!


Music listened to while cooking and writing
The music of my girls
Subsonic Radio - 56k
Goldfrapp - Little Bird

Current Motivation
Awesome friends

Current Craving
Something warm.

Of Fire Breathing Dragons and Pizza!

Maleficent - the best fire breather ever!

"You poor simple fools. You think you can defeat me? Me, the mistress of all evil!"

I make sure to say that to everyone I come across. ;)

All kidding aside, Maleficent makes the best dragon ever.. and what's cooler is that she breathes fire AND has wings - not only that, she's a Disney character - and remember me and Disney?  Ah we go way back.
There's a lil princess in every girl that believes that dragons exist.   I like to believe that dragons are just blinged up dinosaurs.. much like the pegasus is a blinged up horse.   From reality brings wild things to our imaginations so we amp things up and make them ever bigger and neater.   Why do you think Vivienne Westwood is still in business??   <3

Regardless, we're about to make a blinged up pizza from our imagination that no one will ever know it's not the real (imaginary) thing.. I'm tellin' ya!

When I say 'we' I do mean my VERY FIRST un-celebrity chef, who just happens to be my imaginary equal - with the biggest, most awesome imagination ever.    Her head comes up with the best 'dragons' (which she lovingly calls 'dargons') in the business!    I'm talking about my lil pal Elena Theirbach.   And if we're lucky, she'll draw us the dargon who's going to help us, and share dinner with us on Tuesday the 18th!

So, here's where our imaginations come in.
Chicken wing pizza - is very real.
DARGONS - are very, um, not real - but they have wings!
Dargons - well, they breathe fire.
So - we're going to take a dargon from our imagination - and he's going to magically lend us a few pairs of wings (Dargons are magic, remember - they can re-grow wings).  Not only is he going to do that.. he's going to breathe out some fire sauce for us to coat them in, and throw them on a very vegan ranch topping, upon a very vegan pizza dough, which will be topped with very vegan cheese!
So - wings from our imagination,  Fire sauce from our imagination.. all really equals out into something truly vegan, because if not for some very imaginative chefs (Like yours truly) vegan equals would be VERY hard to come by!
I'm so excited - you have no idea!

How silly does this guy look?  um, buffalos are real and they certainly don't have wings!!

So, what are we naming this pizza to be?
Fire Breath Magical Dargon Wing Pizza of course!   This will be Dargon Wing Pizza for short.   So, with that, we need numbers, don't we?

Here they are:



Dargon Wing Pizza                                                           Buffalo Wing Pizza
                                   Per Serving - Serving Size  - 1/8 pizza                
Calories - 104                                                                                246
Fat -  4g                                                                                          14g
Cholesterol - 0g                                                                               52g
Sodium  - 348mg                                                                            1877mg
Carbs   - 13g                                                                                   18g
Fiber -  1g                                                                                         1g
Prot - 4g                                                                                           13g
WW Pts - 3                                                                                        7

We're about to set fire to the old saying that you can't make something that isn't real into something real.. or as I'd like to say - something that tastes like the real thing!   Because we can, and will.   From the depths of our imaginations will come this most awesome pizza of which only the most awesome of people will want to eat.  Can we add you to that most awesome group?  C'mon, save a chicken (or at the very least, save a buffalo from losing his imaginary wings!) And get pumped to want to make this pizza too!
Besides.. a real buffalo wing looks like this before it's taken off the poor bird.  

sad chickens giving wings.. icky.

But Dargon wings.. are not only magical.. they aren't plucked from anything, they're made by imagination - and most likely look beautiful, like this!

Can you hear that Dargon screech!?

I know where my head is at.  Do you?! :)
Soon - we'll get this show on the road!  Soon you'll be jealous because you'll never meet the dargon who's going to cook with us.    Try to contain it, ok?  You'll see his picture - hopefully, and hear his skill on how to make his pizza, that is, if he'll let me video tape him.. and then - - you can make your own!

Music enjoyed while writing this blog: 
Goldfrapp's "Lovely Head" which is in my lovely head.


Current Motivation - My Imagaination

Current Craving - Baked Mac and Cheese.