Yes, I know that it's the chorus from that bloody awful ABBA song Mama Mia* but it seems appropriate as a heading for this post because tonight we're cooking pizza for dinner. PIZZA! "How can I resist ya?"
The Old Girl has been busy working in the office (my study) all day and I've been busy doing manly things about the property (see previous post) so neither of us are inclined to prepare a serious meal. We agreed on pizza.
We make our pizzas with a combination of prepackaged stuff in jars and cans along with fresh vegetables, cheeses and meats. I normally make (have made and frozen) my home-made pizza bases but am out of these so am using some 'sto-bought' ones from the freezer.
These are pretty good though - the brand is Gianni's and I bought these from COUNTDOWN. They have a fairly thin base so don't require much cooking. Eight minutes will suffice.
As we are going for instant gratification I haven't pre-prepared any chicken, fresh tuna or prawns so I'll be using a can of tuna and The Old Girl will be using salami.
I have just prepared some tasty toppings though, chopping up garlic, spring onion, capsicum and piquant peppers and gently sautéing them in ginger and garlic oil.
The aromatics are wonderful |
The other toppings (various) will be olives, capers, tuna, salami, anchovies, tomato puree, basil pesto, jalapeño chillies
We have ............. *JUST TO HAND*. The Old Girl has just informed me that she won't be making her pizza with salami but will be using Halloumi, Feta and rocket.No problem and it reminds me that we have some Feta in the fridge so I'll add that to my tuna based pizza.
Do you know what?
It's time to put together these things and make the pizzas .....
Oh! "Hold on, hold on" as Private Frazer used to say, we've forgotten about the wine, that will be drunk with our pizzas. Here's a pic of them:
A really nice Italian Primotivo (zinfadel) and a a very nice Hawkes Bay chardonnay.
The more observant of you readers might have noticed that the chardonnay bottle is empty and the Primotivo is only half full. Busted!
Yes I've (we've) been sipping this afternoon but, in fairness, the bottles were opened on Saturday (2 days ago). I do think I need another glass of wine though and will most likely open a bottle of pinot noir.
I'm looking forward to our meal. How are you going?
* The ABBA songwriters were (and are) damned good pop song writers though with clever lyrics and catchy tunes. I can only dream of writing anything that good.
4 comments:
An English lesson from Robert. What away to finish my day. Tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il mare.
Beer?
Yes (now that I'm replying to Robert's comments), it does seem that English is his second language. Maybe it's not a bad thing that he's studying Latin.
That pizza shovel looks like someone giving the finger.
The blue man
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