Adventures of a healthy-ish pseudo-foodie

Made the crust, made the sauce, shredded the cabbage, got lazy before chopping the peanuts. Long long ago (I think it was high school?), I used to like to go to California Pizza Kitchen and get the thai chicken pizza. Since I stopped eating meat and stopped eating at CPK, this has left my life, and I kind of missed it. I've contemplated trying to make it before, but I was stuck on two things: the sauce and the protein. Sauce: Trader Joe's has a thai peanut dressing that I don't love as a dressing, but it's perfect as a pizza sauce and it's good for coating the cabbage. If I'm going homemade, I like Cookie and Kate's recipe : 1/3 c peanut butter, 2 tb rice vinegar, 2 tb soy sauce, 2 tb honey, 1 tb sesame oil, 2 cloves garlic, and 2 tb water. Protein: I don't usually like meat substitutes, but a friend introduced me to Quorn and I was pleasantly surprised. The Quorn "Meatless Pieces" are fairly similar to the type of chicken piece...

Crispy. Pinch of Yum  succeeds again! I don't think I've found a recipe there that I didn't love. In this case, I was won over by the beautiful photo in the  original recipe . It convinced me to make this with the slaw, even though I'm not normally a slaw person. It took willpower while shopping, and again while cooking, to not just replace it with a bed of spinach. It turns out the slaw is brilliant. Normally, I serve salmon-cake-type-things with some kind of yogurt-lemon-garlic sauce on top. Here, the yogurt-lemon-garlic sauce is underneath, together with the cabbage. And the saucy cabbage provides the perfect watery, tangy, crunch of freshness to cut through the salmon cakes. I get it now. The original recipe serves it with more yogurt and herbs on top, but I skipped that step. Less photogenic but still delicious. The Recipe: (from Pinch of Yum) (serves 2 adults and a toddler) Salmon Cakes: 2 small filets of salmon, cooked and crumbled ...