Monday, December 9, 2013

Pizza is not a Snack Cooking 101 Strategies Nutrition Etiquette and Frugal Stylish Recipes Professional & University Dining Etiquette


Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin
512-821-2699


Pizza is not a snack. It is too large for that. Pizza is an incomplete part of a meal plan. It is to be served from a platter to a plate. Informally Pizza is to be served from a Pizza pie stand on a platter (albeit cardboard), or on one taken out of a box; every box pizza box use to come with one. And it is to be served to a plate placed center each place setting. It can be topped with greens, cherry tomatoes, and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil. It may be reheated in a microwave. It can be cooked or made crisp by being baked while placed on a tortilla frying pan. Pizza can cost more than a traditional main course; it is primarily a grain and still needs sides, preferably one that is a legume. Salad can be eaten as a pizza side. Tomatoes and cucumbers alone, or added to lettuce can be served as a side to pizza. Each can be topped with broccoli,  garbanzo beans, protein bits, seeds, and or seasoned croutons, and provided with signature crackers. Pizza may be served with a fruit salad of melons and other cut up fresh fruits. You could serve a great soup (casually in a mug,) with or without being topped with oyster cocktail crackers as a pizza side. Pasta might be served with a pizza. It may be angel hair pasta served with a healthy sauce. Pizza could be served as snack alone as a cocktail food cut into small squares or as 3” round sliders, which also can be cut in half and plated as such. Pizza squares, (crust) or bread sticks could be served with hummus as a pizza side or dip. Get a pizza slicer or slider cutter. Get or make an Italian I Love Me Kit. Share the contents of it with friends, and a pizza as a complete protein or as part of a complete meal plan.

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