Friday Night at Wills

There is some things better than cooking your own meal, like cooking dinner with friends, in a good old fashioned cook off. We had 6 participants separated into teams of 2, my Wife and I, Will and Dave, and Heidi and Cass. The mission was to produce 3 different pizzas in an epic battle searching for the ultimate pizza taste. However, before embarking on this quest, we prepared a delicious entree.

Will's Entree Recipe
The Ingredients

• Proscuito
• Greek mozzarella
• rocket

The Method

1. cut the proscuito in half
2. lay 2 rocket leaves on a half proscuito piece
3. wrap the rocket/proscuito around a chunk of mozzarella
4. skewer the parcel
   

It worked out very well and I believe that we will definately use Will's entree in future events.

On top of this, Will was most kind to prepare pizza dough the night before, that had quite nicely risen over night and was ready for rolling.

Wills Pizza Dough
The Ingredients

• 200 grams of white flour
• 180 mills of water
• salt to taste
• yeast

The Method

1. mix ingredients together
2. wait a day
3. separate into portions
4. roll out into a pizza base
   

As you can see it is a pretty simple recipe, and in no time we were all rolling our dough balls into pizza bases. Unfortunately, Will only had 1 circular pizza tray, so 2 teams had to suffice with rectangular pizza trays and bases. Here is a run down of the toppings used by each team for each pizza.

Will and Dave

• Sliced parmigiano reggiano
• tomato paste
• rocket
• proscuito
• 1/2 red onion
  

Heidi and Cass

• parmessian with pepper corns
• grated tasty cheese
• tomato paste
• button mushrooms - sliced
• cherry tomatos quartered
• 1/2 red onion
  
• sprinkling of rocket leaves
  

Matt and Ying

• 2 beef sausages, cooked then sliced
• 1/2 red onion, finely sliced
• bbq sauce
• 3 slices rindless bacon
• 60g shaved pastrami
• 6 quartered cherry tomatos
• grated tasty cheese to taste
• grated parmigiano reggiano

However after such an exhausting battle it could not be decided who won, as we could not decide which was the tastiest. In the end we all agreed it was a tie.

A night is not a night without a few good drinks, and our host Will did not disappoint. The first of which was lemon, lime and bitters hand mixed by our host Will. After which we had a very nice bottle of red that complimented the pizzas really well.