Pizza fun with Amy – my Sous Chef and Waitress

My Sous Chef and Waitress

It’s Friday night and we have had a busy day as you’ll see from the other blog at http://www.ninakennett.com

But this is food blog so back to what we did for dinner this evening – in fact what Amy and I did for dinner tonight.

Pizza.

But not any pizza, kind of gourmet – and kindly assisted with the creation process by my beautiful girl Amy – thanks pumpkin.

She started as my sous chef helping me build the pizzas and ended up as my waitress taking all the orders.

I love this picture – she wanted to have the napkin over the arm and to write down people’s orders – bless her, nothing by halves – he he!!!

What were we serving this night?

OK here we go, first up Daddy’s Salami Pizza… at the request of Amy

• 1x frozen pizza base, on to which layer in this order…
• spoon a thin layer of Bolognese sauce or something similar, with the back of a wooden spoon spread this all over the pizza base,
• take a punnet of mini plum tomatoes, slice in half lengthways, boil in some salted water until soft, drain, take of the skins, spread these atop the Bolognese sauce,
• finely cop 3 garlic cloves and sprinkle over the tomatoes,
• a good sprinkle of salt and pepper all over,
• take a packet of Mozzarella and White Cheddar grated cheese and evenly spread all over the tomatoes, up to you how deep you go with this,
• 1-2 small red onions finely sliced, break in to ‘circles’ by gently pulling the layers apart of the sliced pieces and lay on the cheese,
• finely sliced salami, enough to cover as per the picture below,
• a packet of cured ham or Jambon, sliced in to strips and simply placed randomly where there is a space in the cheese,
• finally a quick drizzle of olive oil.

That’s the pizza made – bash him in the oven for about 20 minutes on 250 and take out when the cheese starts to brown.

I have acquired a pizza base baker, sort of circular baking tray with holes in it – really good, but any baking tray will do.

Delicious!!!

Next up was Daddy’s Roast Pork Pizza…

Now you may have seen my Laab Gai pizza in previous blogs. Well I really loved that, the idea of taking a delicious dish and turning it to a cheesy, crispy pizza was really fun. My favourite hawker food is Roast Pork Belly, so here we go – that now gets a turn.

• 1x frozen pizza base, on to which layer in this order…
• I used a jar of carbonara sauce instead of tomato, and again spooned this on and then with back of the spoon evenly spread it,
• 3 finely chopped garlic cloves again sprinkled all over the sauce,
• 2 small red onions again finely sliced, and then the circles broken up, and again layer these atop the sauce,
• A good sprinkle of salt and pepper,
• A packet of Mozzarella and White Cheddar grated cheese and evenly spread all over the sauce, again up to you how deep you go with this,
• One apple, say a Granny Smith, de-cored and finely sliced – layer this on the cheese,
• 20 or so new potatoes, skins on, quartered and boiled til soft – layer these on,
• 1 roast pork belly from your rotisserie counter, finely sliced with the crackling on – layer this on,
• Finally a good drizzle of olive oil.

Finished – so again bang this in the oven on a baking tray, 250 for 20 minutes or so, again until the cheese starts to brown.

You’ll end up with this absolutely bloody brilliant pizza – one slice is a meal in itself. Woo Hoo!!!