Kids, NRC doesn't stand for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (at least not on this blog). It stands for No Refined Carbs.
Back a few recipes, I featured a summertime no-bake cheesecake, with an almond meal and oat-bran crust, as a solution to making that recipe with the standard graham-cracker crust. But, that is, quite frankly, a dessert crust, and would not work for, say pizza. Other grains you could use besides oat-bran might include amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat (true buckwheat contains no wheat)**, and mixing them with butter, oil and some kind of very sturdy fruit, such as raisins, dried cranberries or dates, might work for a pie--but again, not for pizza.
**(I don't bake these flours--just throw them in and mix. Transmuting them with heat monkeys with vitamin content and moves these toward 'refined-carb' territory)
BUT...how about cauliflower? Huh? Yes, a very clever Navy wife has created a tremendously appealing recipe that would work great for a pizza. On her blog, Joyful Abode, she mixes cauliflower, mozzarella cheese and eggs to create what looks like a real solid, brown, crunchy crust.
Problem solved!
Nerc = "not eating refined carbs"
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