During 2012 I discovered a new thing! And now, I feel ready to share it with you all. This was a thing I had not seen before, at least not in supermarkets: Square mountain bread from the wonderful bakers at Warburtons. I had a friend round not long ago and we were both rather peckish, I happened to have the mountain bread in the cupboard along with a jar of salsa, tomatoes and Cheddar cheese in the fridge, a packet of rocket and some red onions. I placed the bread on a baking tray, covered with the salsa, then dressed with chopped red onions, grated cheese and layed on tomatoes. I put all of these lovely bits under the grill for 10 minutes, until the cheese was nice and melted. Right at the last minute I placed some rocket on the top and a twist of black pepper! It really is the quickest thing, and tastes as good as pizza! Worth a try.
This pizza was heavenly. As I've decided to give up pork for lent I'm being strict with myself in making things that don't obviously include it. So I've recreated a simple classic. Pizza Marghertia, but because I like it, I added some sliced onion on top too. :) The pizza dough was a basic one, except I like to add olive oil for extra flavour and elasticity. I also used tomato puree for the topping, whereas in my Dad's recipe before, we used passata. I topped it off with buffalo mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, dried oregano and fresh basil. Bella!
My Dad and I have always had a thing about making the 'perfect' pizza. We constantly challenge and edit our recipes in order to achieve that true pizza quality. We have excelled at times with our pizza crusts. We have also created truly, tasty, toppings. However, we still somehow have not managed to get each of the elements right together, at the right time. Until...possibly, now? We are still uncertain, still unsure, but we feel it is the closest thing yet, to our very own homemade pizza perfection! (This was a combination of my Dad's pizza dough, our friends homemade pizza sauce topping, and a simple scatter of mozzarella cheese with German Salami, basil and oregano. Of course...)
