Food thread

[Ethnic]

so you'd like the pizza.

Is it fish or all seafood makes you sick?

Fish seems to make me very ill. I'm fine with lobster, crabs and prawns. That's lucky for me because life wouldn't be worth living without them.

[Jovial Monk]

Hear hear!

[Jovial Monk]

Mushroom & mascarppne pizza bianca

Pizza dough
100g mascarpone
50g pecorina pepata shaved (use potato peeler)
150g thinly sliced field or portabella mushrooms

Garlic, lemon & thyme oil
2cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1tbs finely grated lemon rind
1 tbsp thyme leaves
2tsp lemon juice
60ml EVOO
In a mortar place garlic, lemon rind, thyme & 2tsp salt & pound to a paste. Stir in juice & EVOO, season with salt & pepper to taste.

Roll out a quarter of the dough 25cm round and spread with 1/4 of the mascarpone. scatter with pecorino, mushrooms and drizzle with a bit of the garlic/thyme/lemon oil. Put on pizza stone in 250C oven for 10 minutes or until golden. Repeat until all dough used.

[Jovial Monk]

Pizza in da oven! woooo!

[Ethnic]

Sounds yum, mind if I pinch this recipe? Do you use a woodfire, charcoal or gas oven? Pizza from a charcoal or woodfire oven......oh yeah there's nothing quite it (Celetina is now drooling Homer Simpson-style).

Message to moderators: We need a Smilie with a drooling effect.

[Jovial Monk]

Pinch away. Apparently the original comes from Gourmet Traveller.

A drooling smily would be lovely!

I use a plain old gas oven, put pizza stone in, turn oven on HOT, let preheat.

Make up pizza on pizza tray, put tray on stone--not what a purist would like but I don't end up with half my toppings on the bottom of the oven and the stone still gives that crisp, dry base!

[Jovial Monk]

Any recipes for apple muffins? Choc Chip muffins?

[Jovial Monk]

Busy cooking night tonight.

Couple batches 'sand biscuits' for the dog club Trial Sunday

Start making a nice batch apple butter, spiced to within an inch of its life! My sister spent a vacation in Toronto and loved the apple butter there--bet the bitch will bludge a jar or two of apple butter, all take no give is my bitch sister

[Jovial Monk]

doing the pizza bianca thing again, plus a seafood one with 4 huge prawns, 4 sardine fillets and a atlantic trout tail cut into four. Using pine mushrooms for the pizza bianca.

bought a heap of tiny roma tomatoes, going to cut them in half lengthways, lightly sprinkle with sugar & let stand then add salt & fresh ground black pepper, evoo and li'l bit basil for a wicked salad!

[Hebe]

Had a light day and made pumpkin, rosemary and orange soup.