Pearscuitto pizza

Pear is a fairly common savoury ingredient these days, particularly in salad.  However, I was a tad skeptical when I saw a recipe for pear and proscuitto pizza.

I try to live "dangerously" and will give most things a try, and given the success we've had with other pizzas from Theo's book (Theo & Co), I figured it was worth a try.  

The uncooked pizza looked a little funny - I guess we didn't do the best job making the pizza dough into a circle, nor laying out the pear slices in a particularly attractive manner.

Once cooked, the pizza was still obviously misshapen, but caramelised and crispy and, most importantly, delicious looking - and tasting!

Smoked salmon pizza

My first pizza from Theo's book involved giving the dough hook on the kitchen aid a bit of a work out.

We followed Theo's steps, used good quality cheese and delicious smoked salmon and this came out of the oven:

and was made even more delicious with the addition of the salmon

Left over lamb pizza

Theo has a pizza recipe for greek lamb pizza, and while I was inspired by it, I didn't follow it because:
1. we had already cooked the lamb
2. we didn't have all of the pizza ingredients.

My pizza

Theo's pizza

gratuitous shot of the roast lamb

Pizza Pizza Pizza

I heard about Theo on an episode of 9am with David and Kim and knew I had to buy the book - even though I had never made dough before (pre-Cheesymite scrolls obviously).

It's a beautiful book

with step-by-step photos (my favourite)

with savoury

and sweet pizzas