PIzza by the Book Challenge - Week 2

yep, sure it is Paleo-Pete aka Ten-Thousand-Ingredients-and-a-Bucket-of-Oil-Man. 

Pizza By the Book Challenge - Week 2

• Venue: Our House.. 
• Jon's Pizza: Pesto chicken, pine nutes and parmesan
• Cathy's Pizza: Eggplant and smoked mozzarella with caponata
• Clare's Pizza: Zucchini with mozzarella and leek 
• Paul's Pizza: D.N.A (did not attempt)

In the end I chickened out of my plans for the asparagus and truffle oil pizza and went with something a bit more familiar and eggplant based. Although as part of Pete's love of oil, I was required to deep-fry my eggplant first which was a bit unsettling.  And of course we also needed to make onion confit which added and extra hour to our cooking time but did bring us up to the minimum oil usage for the night (i.e. approx 1 gallon).  

*Unfortunately on the night Paul was not keen for his baby octopus and bone marrow calzone (which actually looked like the stuff of nightmares - tentacles sticking out of an undersea pastry cavern, rather than the stuff of pizza ovens). No matter, we didn't buy the ingredients for it anyway (and never will, in my lifetime).