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First of all, Good morning.

Second - LOOK at that.

What is that? Its a Homemade pear and caramelized balsamic onion flat bread. Delicious and good for you.

It can be made with any store bought or home made pizza dough. I prefer the whole wheat kind at Trader Joe's. I'll tell you how its made and then give the nutrition breakdown. * Quick side note: all ingredients to make 2 BIG cookie sheet size flat breads totaled under 10 bucks purchased at my local Trader Joe's. That's a tasty dinner, nutritious and not expensive. It keeps well in the fridge - and is nummy eaten either hot or cold.

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So! Here's the deal. 1 bag of dough per large cookie sheet sized flat bread. Spray a cookie sheet, or round pizza pan, or put the dough on a dry baking stone.

- spray hands with olive oil (you've washed them already, so this is totally cool)

use your hands to press the dough evenly as possible to cover the whole surface that you will bake it on. Thin crust will be crispier - thick crust will be chewier. *If you take the dough out of the fridge an hour or so before you begin it will make this process much easier :)*

-after your dough is all pressed out nice, cut half a large white or yellow onion and dice it, saute the onion until soft and translucent (5 minutes roughly) watch it, stir it. don't let it burn. add 2 TBSP balsamic vinegar to your onions. Let them caramelize a bit and then take them off the heat, they're done.

Assembly; for the pear/onion gorgeous flat bread layer on your whole wheat pizza dough just sitting there waiting for you:

A mist of olive oil over the crust followed by sliced pears, your camelized onion mixture, 1/2 cup each of crumbled feta and 1/2 cup crumbled bleu cheese. Put that bad boy in the oven and bake it at 400 degrees until its bubbling and the crust is slightly brown on the edge and bottom. take it out. slice it into squares or slices. Whatever makes you happier - a cookie sheet size flat bread should yield about 24 complex, balanced, mouth watering pieces.

so to sum up the flat bread ingredients are:

Whole wheat pizza dough

Olive oil

Balsamic vinegar

Onions

pears

feta cheese

blue cheese

BOOM - that's it.

- We also modified this and created a Sun dried tomato flat bread on garlic/herb pizza dough and took the pears out of the equation.

It's the same exact thing but we just swapped the pears for Sun dried tomatoes and the whole wheat crust for a garlic and herb one. It was just as easy but had a different but equally delicious flavor profile. The possibilities are really endless with this method. :)

Breakdown:

each slice contains 190 calories

11 grams of fat,

30 grams of carbs (derived mostly from whole wheat dough and the pear)

7 grams protein

A couple pieces of flat bread and a big salad would make for a well balanced lunch or dinner. If you give this flat bread a try I'm sure it will be a big hit- it is one of my new favorites. :)

Eat real food.
If it has a face or comes from the ground. Eat it. - If your into eating stuff with faces (understandable), go for it.
If it was created in a lab, blasted with hydrogen, chemically altered. DON'T eat/drink it.
Your body doesn't know what to do that that garbage - franken food. Do your self a favor and abstain from even buying that crap.

- Question. You ever see a Cheetos tree?
No. that's right - its crap. Your body can barley metabolize it.
feed your body REAL food and see what happens. You will be amazed.
If your already on the eating real food road - you know how awesome it is. *high effin five*

There's no magic anything people. Move your ass and fight the system.
Until we meet again - eat well, be well. Rock it out.

-Josie