Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Mousse

This is something i kinda came up with by accident one day. I thought it was mighty brilliant, if i may say so myself. It takes 5 minutes, and it's really just the best thing ever when you need a light fluffy chocolate fix. Plus, made with skim milk and using fat free whipped topping, the whole dessert is less than 200 cals.

• instant chocolate pudding mix (i use Jell-O singles)
• skim milk
  
• cool-whip fat free whipped topping

Make the chocolate pudding as instructed on the box. Then once the pudding has set (5 minutes tops), put one serving of pudding into a pretty cup and add in a few heaping spoonfuls of whipped topping. Fold gently until you get a nice chocolate mousse! Enjoy!

Baguette Pizzas

Something I never get sick of making, especially variations of it, is pizza. And there are so many ways you can interpret pizza because there are so many layers to it: crust, sauce, cheese, toppings. Here is one I made with drew once. We had leftover ricotta and sauce from making calzones (i'll have to post that recipe sometime), so we used the leftovers to make these little baguette pizzas.

• 1 day old baguette
• olive oil
  
• 1/2 package of ricotta
• pizza sauce
• whatever italian-ish herbs you have on hand
• whatever topping you want
• salt and pepper to taste
  

Okay, so this is not a very complicated recipe. You probably already get the point. Here are the directions anyway, with some tips that helped me when I made them.

1. Preheat oven to 375F
   
2. slice baguette into slats. [tip: cutting them on an angle gives you more surface area. so from the side they should be more like parallelograms]
   
3. brush flat surface of baguette slices with olive oil.
4. mix ricotta with salt and pepper, add herbs, like oregano or basil [tip: reserve some of the herbs for garnish later]
5. Put a spoonful of pizza sauce on baguette.
6. Put a few globs of cheese on it next.
7. Layer it with whatever toppings you desire (we used maple honey ham and fresh mozzerella) [tip: gluing down the toppings with a little more cheese helps keep it in place]
   
8. Bake on cookie sheet for about 10-12 minutes, or until the cheese has a little brown edge to it.
   
9. Garnish with remaining herbs.

Here is what ours looked like when we were done:

These would be great as appetizers too. We just ate like 7 of these each and called it dinner :)