"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>> English muffin pizza, best there is I had all these WW tricks lol.
>>> Half a muffin lightly toasted, spread with a little ketchup, doesn't
>>> need to be much or bottled pasta sauce (although usually not something
>>> one wants to take a spoon full out of just for a muffin, lol. Sprinkle
>>> with dried Italian herb mix and add some toppings (which I preheat in
>>> the micro). Little bits of finely chopped mushroom, garlic, peppers,
>>> ham, olives (or just olive juice if you like) etc. I like to add a
>>> little chopped canned, unsweetened pineapple as well. Then top with a
>>> bit of grated cheese and finally very thinly cut onion over that plus a
>>> few dried chili flakes. Then put your little creation under the griller
>>> to melt the cheese and semi cook the onion. A nice green salad and that
>>> was lunch!
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>> I used to make these but daughter and husband didn't like them. For the
>> sauce I bought those tubes of tomato paste. I would mix a small amount
>> of that with a couple of drops of olive oil, a little water and Italian
>> herbs.
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> One of the many things that weren't available here back then. Pasta sauce
> wasn't, tomato paste came in large jars and often went moldy in the fridge
> before it was all used up.

That's too bad. We can get small cans of tomato paste which are still too
large. I have since read that the thing to do is freeze little dabs of
them. The stuff in the tube is not widely available. I have to look for
places that sell Italian imports.