Breakfast: Pizza Luau

Several months ago I was perusing the book isle at Sam's Club - as I frequently do - and ran across a cookbook called "Hungry Girl 1-2-3" --> don't hate me for using quotes here, grammarians... I can't figure out how to underline in this thing.

Anyway, Hungry Girl (ahh, I remembered about the rules of italics...) is all about yummy, guilt-free cooking for small parties - as in as small as 1 or 2! FINALLY! A cookbook that doesn't punish me for a. not being married and/or b. not having at least four children or 2 other couples to share my culinary craft with. The entire first chapter is about meals for O-N-E! Seriously ecstatic here.

Pizza luau is a snacky-type of meal, but it plain said IN THE RECIPE to not discount it as a breakfast item. So there ya go, my latest breakfast concoction. Pretty good for a chick that tends to skip breakfast on week days... Here it is:

1 english muffin (light) cut into halves
2 tbsp low fat (I used regular... couldn't find low fat at Kroger) marinara sauce
1 stick string cheese, strung into pieces and then chopped
2 pieces shaved deli ham (I used honey ham. Yum!)
1 ring of pineapple, diced
1 tpsp red onion, diced

I started off by putting 1 tbsp of marinara on each half of the English muffin, then added the cheese. I rolled the ham much like you would leaves and sliced it up. I have no clue what the style is called, but they do it on cooking shows a lot. Makes for skinny little pieces - very good for bites. I cut the pineapple ring in half and allotted one half per muffin half. Each slice made 6 small chunks.

After combining all of this, I sprayed the little tray that goes in the toaster oven with veggie oil (lightly, of course) and put the mini-pizzas in there at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Don't forget to preheat.

8 minutes later, my timer went off, I finished making my bed, and headed back to the kitchen, only to remember I plum forgot about the onions. I threw them on top. I wasn't able to eat this until I got to school (a good hour later), but it was actually tasty. Definitely a specific flavor, but yummy. Doesn't pair well with coffee... but hey, I needed my caffeine jolt. I will be making these again tomorrow and looking forward to them... but to me, at least, they are more of an afternoon snack than breakfast.

Pre-toasting:
Post-toasting (and after I remembered to add the onion):