Pumpkin pizza

It's pumpkin season, try this for something different while it is cheap and readily available.

Pizza dough(enough for about 3 pizzas)

1 1/2 cups water

2 sachet yeast (about 15 grams)

1 teaspoon salt

Mix together and leave until foamy, about 5-10 minutes

Add 2 cups, from 4 cups of flour, and mix in, add rest. Stir to combine, then knead until smooth.

Place in a bowl and cover with a tea towel in a warm place and let sit for about 30 minutes.

Roast some sliced pumpkin until soft, I used the pizza tray to do this as a guide to how much pumpkin I would need. It should take about 15- 20 minutes.

Spread the pizza base thickly, about a centimetre or more thick, with the white sauce and arrange the pumpkin, then sprinkle with fresh rosemary.

White cheese sauce

2 tablespoons butter.

Saute half a small onion and a clove of garlic in the butter.

Add 3 tablespoons flour and stir to combine.

Add a little from 2 cups of milk, and keep adding a little at a time and whisk after

each addition to a smooth consistency.

Stir until it thickens.

Take off heat and stir in 120 grams of grated cheese, salt and pepper.

I used tasty cheese, if you have any other fancy pants cheese, add it instead or combine for a burst of flavour. 

Instead of pumpkin, I used sauteed mushroom and thyme on one of the pizzas.

Serve drizzled with a little olive oil, and garnish with some fresh rocket or spinach.

Mushroom and white cheese sauce with thyme 

You'll probably have cheese sauce left over:

• use it to make broccoli and/or cauliflower cheese
• add prawns and whatever other seafood to make a neptune topping for steak (we love to use lobster in cray season; that's if and when Boggy can catch them.
• Make a mornay with fish (atlantic salmon, prawns or just tinned tuna). Make a pie. Or just chuck in a casserole dish and bake with a packet of cheese and onion chips scrunched up on top. Bit yummy :)

When the moon hits your eye

Like a big fishy pie

That's... a mornay

Nope? Sorry......ahem.....I'm going now ;)