Hey! Good lookin’!

[emma_p]

We avoided cooking inside and fired up the pizza oven. I made a courgette and mint pizza which was so much better than I’d imagined!

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Rocket, pea, basil and fennel salad on my end of sale bargain plate!

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[Ella]

Looks lovely, emma.

[Pippedydeadeye]

That looks amazing.

[Estrella]

It looks so fresh. And I love your plate!

[baargain]

It does look good! I have a lot of courgettes and a lot of mint, what base did you use? Is it a white rather than tomato one?

[Cerise]

Yes please tell us more about the pizza.

[emma_p]

It's just grated courgette mixed with a little olive oil, salt, pepper and grated parmesan spread over the base. You were meant to add burrata or stracciatella after cooking but I only had mozzarella so just added that before cooking. I added the mint at the end. It was delicious. The mint was so good!

[baargain]

Iiiinteresting! The Bf was muttering about the sogginess potential of courgettes, but them being the base sorts that issue!

[emma_p]

It wasn't soggy! It's from a Pizza Vetri book - someone has blogged a version here:
https://www.manopasto.com/en/2021/09/09 ... ian-pizza/

I think grating the courgette at last minute is to prevent sogginess.

[baargain]

I think he was thinking sliced courgettes on a tomato sauce, which probably would be rather soggy :))

[emma_p]

I decided to cook a recipe from my new Ixta Belfrage book.

It was really good but not the right thing to cook on the hottest day of the year!

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[Cosmopolitan]

Oh, that's what she made on Saturday kitchen, it looked lush!

[emma_p]

Yes! She made it look so much more straight forward :lol:

[Pippedydeadeye]

I imagine having home economists on hand help with that. I was meaning to catch up with Saturday Kitchen this week. I love Johannes and was hoping he’d reveal what his aftershave is after the BBC Breakfast presenters said he smelled good.

[emma_p]

I recorded it and only watched Ixta and the Gelupo man making granita. I have no time for Matt Tebbutt and his chestnut hair.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I was going to skip the annoying bits. I hate when he thanks Keith Floyd. He’s DEAD.

[absley]

What is it, emma?

[emma_p]

Chiles rellenos with salsa rojo risotto. Grilled romano peppers stuffed with mozzarella and feta on a brown rice risotto which was just steamed rice mixed at last minute with a cherry tomato sauce flavoured with ancho and habanero chilli, cumin and coriander. Lime, coriander and spring onion at the end. Would make again, for sure. Just not on such a super hot day.

[Jet]

Her rojo sauce from that lamb enchiladas recipe was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever tasted. But so hot! I had tons leftover and had to calm it down with sour cream :lol: I want to try this.

[Pippedydeadeye]

It’s not novelty cake thread worthy, but I’ve made the Nigella malteser cake again for Chunk.