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pizza night!

Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:19:14 PM

My mum invited me and my bf round for dinner last night, she made these lovely pizzas for us happy
There was an onion one, a mushroom one, and a margherita heart my favourites! bigsmile


roasted garlic and mushroom pastahalloween

Comments

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:57:34 PM

I am envious, you know.
BTW, it is "margherita" and it seems that pizza was named after the queen of Italy.

kirsten kirstycat Monday, November 2, 2009 8:49:26 AM

ah, so it is, thanks wink I shall fix my spelling mistake!

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Monday, November 2, 2009 9:45:36 AM

Here comes one of my boring lessons:
In italian you have the "soft" sound "ge" like in "german" and the "hard" sound "ghe" like in "get".
As usual, it makes no difference where syllables are positioned, they sound always the same.
Same goes for single letters, "e" sounds ALWAYS like in the above examples, where ever it is. For example in italian the "e" in "german" would sound the same also in "age" or "he", while in english you get completely different sounds.

The only difficulty is the "gx" and "ghx" do not exist for all the vowels, for example you don't have "gho", "gha" or "ghu" because they always have the hard sound even if they are written "go", "ga" or "gu" but there is "gi" and "ghi". smile

AnchyAnitaMargita Friday, November 6, 2009 8:47:12 PM

Wow! Pizza feast! Yum! smile

What contain these onion and mushroom ones beside? smile

kirsten kirstycat Friday, November 6, 2009 9:44:42 PM

they all have a tomato and basil sauce base, with black olives, cheddar cheese, cooked onions, cooked mushrooms...sometimes I like to put anchovies on them too, or mozzarella cheese...I have recently also discovered that sliced courgettes are also very nice on a pizza! I love artichoke hearts too, and peppers, and asparagus...oooh! I want pizza again now!

Anonymous Friday, November 6, 2009 11:43:53 PM

Gourmet writes: Yes, anything does except pineapple! Grue!

kirsten kirstycat Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:42:59 AM

I agree! wink

OlgaOlgita Monday, November 9, 2009 10:28:31 AM

Could you write the recipe of the pastry for your pizza? smile

OlgaOlgita Monday, November 9, 2009 10:30:57 AM

chef chef chef

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Monday, November 9, 2009 10:32:02 AM

The easiest way to make pizza is to buy the same "pastry" they use for making bread from your baker and then put stuff over it.

kirsten kirstycat Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:19:14 AM

Olgita, I plan on having a go at making my own pizzas soon (using the same recipe that my mum does!) so I will blog the recipe for you when I do smile

Lorenzo: that's cheating! wink I did try using a ready made base once, but it's not the same as a proper home made pizza base (it was horrible actually! couldnt finish it!)

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:53:26 AM

I did not consider that bakers in Britain maybe can't make proper bread smile

kirsten kirstycat Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:16:24 PM

I meant the ones in the supermarket that come wrapped up in a packet...thoe things are like carboard! Yuck! yuck

You can buy nice hand made bread in some bakers here, but they tend to be quite expensive! Most people like that horrible tasteless white fluffy stuff.

Lorenzo CelsiLorenzoCelsi Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:46:39 PM

Here there are boxes with all the ingredients to make pizza starting from flour. But going to the baker is quick because you don't have to wait the thing to rise.

Edit: I've found an Italian Kirsten who is broadcasting her cooking on Youtube and here is the video for making home made pizza:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkfHFw7-ThI&feature=player_embedded

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