whole grains and toupees

In looking through my very limited stack of cookbooks recently (somehow my favorite cookbooks were sent to storage but a Buffalo Bills bumper sticker made its way to London... go figure), I came across one of my go-to quick and easy recipes. This recipe comes from Mark Bittman's Food Matters book - Whole Grain Flatbread.  I seem to now have a slight addiction to this (and Peeps, but that's another story) and make it at least twice a week. We are obviously observing a low-carb diet. But I wanted to share this as it is so easy to make, a healthy and fulfilling alternative to pizza and looks pretty - the last of which is of utmost importance.

Here is the recipe: http://content.markbittman.com/recipes/easy-whole-grain-flatbread and a few pics to showcase the delectable results. (Just a note: Please do not grab the handle of the skillet without an oven mit after the skillet has preheated and is ready to go back into the oven with the dough mixture. One occurrence can be translated into an accident, but twice, well - I  suppose I just wanted a matching scar to show off.) Because I am constantly "tweaking" recipes, I have found that coconut oil works well in place of olive oil and you don't need as much as it called for in the recipe. And any herbs complement this bread. Pesto, fresh tomato, basil and mozzarella are heavenly on this bread. Since dinner doesn't seem to count unless there is meat involved, our flatbread below had chicken and pepperoni... A salad with a house-made citrus, honey and shallot vinaigrette is a lovely accompaniment.

In an unrelated yet quirky topic: At the gym yesterday, trying to work off my whole grain flatbread and peep consumption from this past weekend, I was watching a show (on one of the 4 TVs in the entire arena) comparable to Antiques Roadshow. Talk about motivation! Well, I came across a line that is now going to make its way into my dictionary. Rather than saying "Tip your hat to so and so..." (should you say this in the first place), they say "Take off your toupee to so and so...". Lesson #2