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For the love of Pizza

You find yourself stranded on a dessert island and you can only take ingredients for one dish what are you going to take?В  My answer: I am taking ingredients for Pizza.В  In my opinion it is possibly the perfect food.В  It can be everything to everyone.В  Lots of bread in the crust for the hard core carb cravers, tons of meat for the carnivores in the crowd, loads of veggies for the vegetarians and a whack of melty cheesy goodness that will satisfy just about anyone.В  In the winter you can cook pizza in the oven and load it up to keep you warm from the inside out, in the summer you can create a masterpiece on the barbeque and transform it with fresh veggies and shellfish.В  You can eat it cold for breakfast and even cook the crust and make a salad pizza by not cooking any of the toppings.В  What other recipe offers up the versatility of pizza?В  Then you might get that sudden pang of guilt - pizza isnрЂ™t exactly the healthiest food around.В  Correct but who cares, you are on a dessert island, there is plenty of time for exercise and restraint.В  In fact you wonрЂ™t be getting dessert so have 2 slices. Everyone has an opinion about how they like their pizza and my opinion changes all the time depending on my mood, the time of year and weather I am making it myself of ordering in. If I am making it myself I love a reasonably thin crust with a good homemade tomato sauce spread liberally but not sloppily on the base.В  A little bit of parmesan cheese to soak up some of the sauce.В  Fresh tomato slices, basil leaves and fresh whole milk mozzarella cheese torn from the ball and laid across the top. There is something so incredibly satisfying about pizza.В  And the craving for pizza isnрЂ™t just a North American thing, I read recently that in Japan the most popular topping on pizza is squid.В  Well why not?!В  Not sure what they would have with it but cheese seems weird somehow.В В  Pizza is the ideal in between season food.В  Right now, we are waiting for those tender fresh greens of summer to emerge, the green beans, the peas and the fruit are all so close I can almost taste them but yes still so far away.В  Clean out your fridge and make a pizza, use up the sliced meat from the kidsрЂ™ lunch, the ВЅ can of tomatoes from your pasta supper on Wednesday night and the cheese left over from last weekend.В  Thaw some of those wine ice cubes and pretend you are on a desert island.В  Spring, they say, is on its way.В 

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