Vegan Pizza! Vezza!

Seriously, is there anyone on this earth that does not enjoy a greasy, melty, savory slice of pizza? I doubt it. Satisfy your craving with a vegan take on the classic pizza. 

Ingredients:

• 1 ready-to-bake pizza dough                ($1.14)
• 1 cup of flour                                           ($0.02)
• 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil                    ($0.02)
• ½ of a red pepper                                   ($0.55)
• ½ of a yellow pepper                              ($0.43)
• ½ of a can black olives, drained            ($0.54)
• 1 cup of mushrooms, sliced                  ($0.66)
• 1 jar of pizza sauce                                 ($1.67)
• 1 bag of vegan soy cheese                   ($2.89)

Colorful veggie toppings! Get creative with your
favorite toppings for your vezza.

Preparation:

Pre-heat the oven to 450°F. Lay out some flour in a thin layer. Roll the uncooked pizza dough around in the flour to coat all of the outside surface. Flatten and spread the dough out. Coat the bottom of a baking tray with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Place the dough on the tray, spreading it to all the edges. Spread the pizza sauce evenly over the dough. Sprinkle a light layer of cheese over the sauce. Add the veggie toppings evenly. Cover the veggies with the rest of the cheese. Place the vezza in the oven for at least 30 minutes. Soy cheese takes longer to melt than dairy cheese. Remove the vezza when the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted. Let cool 10 minutes before slicing and serving.  Eat up!

Costing $7.92, this pizza will serve 4...or 2 starving, impoverished vegan college students. Eating out is the most costly manner of dining nowadays so enjoy how inexpensive it can be to make vegan alternatives to everyday omnivore food.

Did you know?

What could go better with vezza than an ice cold can of BEER?! Steel Reserve is a good beer for impoverished vegans because it is considered a high gravity beer. At 8.1% ABV, alcohol by volume, Steel Reserve is an inexpensive yet alcoholic beer. 

Beer is old. Traces of pots containing ancient beer have been traced back almost 5,000 years. Theories exist that the manna from the Old Testament of the Bible was actually a bread-based beer called wusa. I hope this is true because 40 years of walking around the desert can be miserable without any manna beer. Beer became an everyday staple for people of all social statuses in northern and eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. Grapes for wine were not easily cultivated there, so beer became the dominant adult beverage. Beer was consumed instead of water for sanitary purposes. The boiling required for the brewing process decontaminated the beer, so why not drink beer instead of contaminated water?

The Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem of collected oral traditions contains more lines about the origin of brewing beer than the origin of mankind itself. The patron goddess of brewing in ancient Sumer was called Ninkasi. In Egyptian mythology, the immense blood-lust of the fierce lioness goddess Sekhmet was only sated after she was tricked into consuming an extremely large amount of red-colored beer. She became so drunk that she gave up her hunt altogether.

If you are over the age of 21, feel free to enjoy (responsibly) a nice glass (or gallon) of beer with your vegan pizza. You will feel at least 80% more American, but 100% better about being cruelty-free! Save Animals, Eat Vezza.