Day 3: Whole wheat banana pancakes, "Salad" pizza (AKA Zucchini & Caramelized Onion Pizza)

Today's whole wheat banana pancakes were a huge hit. Aaron ate all of his and asked for more saying "they make me happy." We not only had a wonderful breakfast this morning, but we have sets of pancakes wrapped in wax paper in the freezer for breakfast on school days.
LTWOS--Only 3 days of Christmas break left and I still have a million things that I could, and maybe should, be doing for my classroom, but I am really enjoying our break. Thankfully now that my co-teacher and I have been working our current plan for awhile I don't feel so stressed about what comes next for our new semester.
Despite our breakfast success, dinner was not as much of a hit (with the kids at least). Tonight's healthy feast included zucchini and caramelized onion pizza with ricotta and mozzarella on a made-from-scratch whole wheat crust. The recipe was adapted from www.eatliverun.com. Our oldest called it salad pizza because the shredded zucchini did look like salad peeking out from under the cheese. Interestingly, he did not want to eat the crust or the ricotta cheese, but he ate the zucchini and onion "salad" with mozzarella on top. I guess he ate the most nutritious parts of the pizza so I'm happy. I am also happy with the pizza. I think it turned out awesomely yummy and we will surely have it again.

 Zucchini & Caramelized Onion Pizza
2-3 Zucchini, grated
1 sweet onion, coarsely chopped
olive oil
1 tsp garlic, minced
1 whole wheat pizza crust (using recipe from Fleismann's Pizza Yeast)
1 cup of ricotta cheese
1 cup of mozzarella cheese

Directions:
1. Heat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Make pizza dough according to the directions on the yeast package (or use a pre-made pizza crust).
*If I wasn't home on holiday I would probably have used a pre-made whole wheat crust, but this dough was very easy and fast to make.
3.  Stretch dough out to the shape of the baking pan. We made a circle pizza tonight, but rectangle pizza is just as yummy.
4. Spread the ricotta cheese over the dough (there is no tomato or pizza sauce).
5. Wash, trim ends off zucchini and then grate the whole zucchini (skin and all). Do this for all of the zucchini. Place all of the zucchini on a paper towel to drain.
6. Slice the onion and saute with a little olive oil. When onions are almost translucent, add a teaspoon of minced garlic. Layer the onions and garlic on top of the cheese.
7. The paper towel the zucchini is sitting on has probably absorbed a lot of the water, but take some more paper towel and place it over the top and press down to get out as much of the water as possible. Layer the grated zucchini on top of the onions and cheese.
8. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese over the top of the pizza and cook for 15 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.
9. If you live with a bunch of carnivores as I do, this pizza goes great with Italian pepper chicken sausage.