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Sunday was National Pizza Day–something I didn’t know a thing about until various types of social media informed me. Thank goodness for Twitter, am I right?

Needless to say, my pizza-loving family was happy to abandon our previous meal plan and make pizza. About the time we decided to do this, it was snowing. As we know, that ended soon, but before the snow stopped, the hubby and I decided that we’d make our observance of National Pizza Day a bit more exciting by using only what we had on hand.

Meaning, no runs to the store for more toppings/cheese/sauce.

We already had the flour and olive oil for our typical dough, plus some leftover cheese and sauce from our last pizza-making expedition. But toppings were a complete toss up.

I’d gone grocery shopping the day before, but not specifically for pizza. Thus, we ended up using bits of what I’d already bought as toppings, namely: crimini mushrooms, red onion, red pepper and avocado. Add in some already-opened garlic olives and peppadew peppers and we had dinner.

Thus, below in order are our National Pizza Day 2014 pizzas…

The kiddo’s–cheese sans sauce:

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The hubby’s–cheese with red pepper, red onion and mushrooms

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And my lactose-free concoction: baba ghanoush (no hummus in the fridge!), red onion, mushrooms, garlic-stuffed olives, peppadew peppers and avocado (added after cooking)

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