Pizza: Potato Pizza & Bacon, Mushroom and Pineapple Pizza.

For us, pizza is a pretty common mid-week meal. It takes about an hour to make from start to finish, but 45 minutes of that is waiting for the dough to be made in the breadmaker, so really it's about 10-15 minutes work - even less if you have prebought bases, but they're nowhere near as good. We roll out the pizzas on the bench and then dust with semolina before placing them on baking paper to assemble the pizzas. Once assembled we transfer to a heated pizza stone and slide the baking paper out by sliding a knife between it and the base while pulling on the paper.

Potato Pizza

1/2 quantity of pizza dough (recipe to come)
Semolina for dusting

2 desiree (purple skinned) potatoes
1/2 sliced red onion
Fresh Rosemary
Sea Salt
Olive oil
Parmesan Cheese
Mozzarella or Bocconcini

Preheat oven as hot as it will go.

If you have a mandolin (slicer) slice the potatoes with it at about 2mm thick and then boil for about 2 minutes and dry on paper towels. If you don't have a mandolin, boil them whole till just done, then slice them as thin as possible afterwards. Put potato slices into a bowl and add all the other ingredients except for the Mozzarella/Bocconcini and toss to combine. Arrange on the the pizza base (which you've rolled out and dusted with semolina) and top with Mozzarella and an extra drizzle of olive oil. Put in the oven for about 15 minutes till cheese is browned, but remove before crust burns. Some mushrooms or bacon also work pretty well with this pizza.


Bacon, Mushroom and Pineapple Pizza.

1/2 quantity of pizza dough (recipe to come)
Semolina for dusting

3 tbsp Tomato Sauce (see recipe)
Bacon
Sliced Mushrooms
1/2 sliced red onion
some tinned pineapple
Parmesan Cheese
Mozzarella or Bocconcini

Preheat oven as hot as it will go.

Apply tomato sauce to pizza base with the back of a spoon, then layer the pizza in the order of the ingredients listed. Place in oven for about 15 minutes till done.


Enjoy!

Simple Tomato Sauce.

Ok, so we've moved house and just bought a new Camera and wanted to test out both the camera and kitchen, so here's a really simple, yet also very yummy recipe that we do all the time. This sauce can be used for pretty much anything, it's awesome as a pizza sauce, you can add abit of cream and sage to it and use it as a sauce for chicken or you can use it as a pasta sauce, which is what we ended up doing this time.

Ingredients:

2 x cans tomato (or 1kg fresh)

one onion

one garlic clove (optional)

one knob of butter

pinch of salt and sugar.

Method:

Ok, if you're using fresh tomatoes, put them in a pot with a little bit of water and cook them for about 5-10 minutes just to soften them up abit. Next, put tins or fresh tomato into a blender or food processor and blitz them until they're completely smooth and then pour into a saucepan.

Now, slice the onion in half and peel it, and place both halves into the saucepan and add the garlic clove if using.

Simmer down for half an hour to 45 minutes, you'll see the oil just start to separate from the tomatoes, that's when it's ready. Remove the onion and garlic, stir in your knob of butter and season with salt and sugar.

And that's it! So easy! You'll be suprised how damn good this tastes! You can use it as is or add extras to it to embellish it. In this case, we added some fried sliced chorizo, shredded silverbeet, capers and of course Parmesan.