For the Love of Bagels and Pizza

Last week I gave in and bought the dozen pack of bagels from Costco. Why 12 bagels for just my husband and I? Because they were so fresh and I'm a sucker for freshly baked goods. As good as they taste a cream cheese or even lightly toasted with a bit of butter, I was itching to make a pizza for lunch. So the Bagel Pizza was born.

Bagel Pizza

Ingredients:

• 4 or 5 mushrooms sliced
• 4 or 5 olives, pitted
• 2 bagels
• few slivers of onion
• dried oregano
• jarred marinara sauce
• cheese- mozzarella or cheddar or jack, any melty cheese.
• EVOO (Extra virgin Olive Oil). Yeah, I watch Rachel Ray's cooking shows!
  

Directions :

1. Slice bagel into half and drizzle EVOO to coat the top
2. Liberally spread some of the marinara sauce as the base layer like you would on a pizza. Since a bagel is fairly thick, you would need more sauce than on a thin crust pizza.
3. Pile on all the toppings, as little or as much as you like, the last layer being the yummy cheese- also as little or as much as you like.
4. Sprinkle a bit of dried oregano
5. Bake at 375 F for about 20 minutes.

And this is what it looked before I bit into it:



There's another version of this I make on a tortilla but as Alton Brown would say, That's Another Show!