Pizza Night

 Friday 22nd July
Tonight we had Nanna Sue, Poppa, Nanna Rob, Poppy Pete, Unle Doug and Kate come for tea. We had a Home-made pizza night...

First Pizza was a garlic pizza with garlic infused olive oil sea salt and parmesan cheese.

Next pizza was a caramilised pumpkin pizza

40g unsalted butter

1/2 butternut pumpkin, cut into 1cm cubes

1/2 cup (125ml) chicken or vegetable stock

1 tbs dark brown sugar

100g baby spinach leaves

125g Taleggio cheese, sliced

1 tsp thyme leaves, chopped  

Olive oil, to drizzle

1. Heat the butter in a large frypan over low heat, add the pumpkin and cook gently, stirring occasionally, until just tender. Add stock, 1/4 cup water and the sugar, then bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated and pumpkin has caramelised. Add the spinach and stir until just wilted.
2. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
3. Scatter pizza bases with pumpkin mixture, top with Taleggio and thyme, then drizzle with oil. Bake for 10 minutes or until base is crisp and cheese is bubbling. Cut into wedges to serve.

Chicken mango pizza

• BBQ pizza sauce
• Mango chutney
• 3 Chicken thigh fillets
• 2 mushrooms thinly sliced
• Can of mango's sliced
• 1 avocado sliced
• Mozzarella cheese

Cook thigh fillets until brown
Spread base of pizza with BBQ sauce
Put dollops of mango chutney on top of sauce
Scatter remaining ingredients, except the avocado, on the pizza and cook for 10 min putting the avocado on to heat through in the last 2 min of cooking.
Cut into wedges to serve.

The next pizza was a basic tomato pizza sauce with cherry tomato, pineapple, ham, mozzarella and mixed herbs.


The last pizza was a seafood pizza

Spread base sparingly with basil pesto, scatter slices of roasted capsicum, cooked prawns, raw scallops, raw slices of salmon, bocconcini cheese and dill. Drizzle with garlic infused olive oil and cook until scallops are just cooked.
Cut into wedges to serve.

Not the best photos but we were in a hurry to serve them nice and hot.