Tonight's tortilla pizza, With homemade pickled artichoke :)

Tonight's tortilla pizza, With homemade pickled artichoke :)

(Had this tonight with family, made while going back watching episode 2 of star wars)

The longest thing to prepare was definitely the pickled artichokes. Had to start yesterday. 

The artichokes got unreduced, cleaned them, boiled them for about 30 to 40 minutes. The next time I probably wouldn't go all the way to 40, also added in a whole head of garlic (there were six artichokes) And some salt in the water. 

The garlic cloves were cut in roughly thirds.

The next day in the morning I put the cooled and cut pieces into brine to white vinegar ratio of one to about 1.3.

I added oregano to the (cool) brine with the vinegar, And topped the jar with olive oil. 

Walking the artichokes I took off the tough outermost leaves, and chopped the top third of the whole artichoke, then more clinically used a pair of kitchen scissors at Grandma's suggestion to cut off pointy tips that were still left and anything that I just felt were probably going to be too tough. 

After marinating all afternoon, these made the main topping up the tortilla pizza! 

For the tortilla pizza, in addition to the artichokes I topped with tomato sauce, oyster, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Extremely thinly sliced. It's important that things are thinly sliced enough, otherwise it weighs in soggies down the tortilla. 

For the tomato sauce, I just took the Primo crushed tomato puree and mixed it with some Berry, very finely chopped pieces onion the way my mom showed me to cut it, making it very thin, as well as minced garlic. I put about 1/3 of an onion, and maybe three cloves of fine lie, minced garlic straight into about one cup of the tomato puree. Maybe a bit more. 

I salted with seasoning salts just a little bit and regular salt to taste. Put in a little bit of black pepper, and some oregano, and some garlic powder for dispersion. 

I mixed in olive oil

This was sitting at least an hour before being used is topping, and in that time the fragrant juices seeped in. 

To top it, if putting in the toaster oven, I would avoid putting cheese all the way to the ends, but otherwise in the traditional oven on top of a pizza pan with holes at 425° f they're baked for about 8 minutes and you can put cheese all the way to the ends. In either case, I do suggest putting the thin layer of tomato sauce all the way to the end. It does look quite thin compared to usual, but keep in mind this is just for tortilla. I put slightly less tomato sauce in the middle to avoid middle sogging. 

Shredded mozzarella cheese comes after the tomato sauce, and then the cut oyster mushrooms, pickled artichoke pieces, and the very thinly sliced tomatoes. 

These should be distributed to keep in mind that moisture should not be piled into the middle. If anything, I actually move moist things slightly away from the middle since it will largely end up there anyway.

Fake at 425° f for about 8 minutes in the oven, 5 minutes in the toaster oven with nothing on the bottom. However, it is much better in the oven on top of the pizza pan with holes.

Important note, the sauce is not cooked at all.