Make it a Pizza Night with PizzaSi

We are living in such strange times at the moment. Things are easing up a bit now, but I can't help but wonder if it is not a bit too soon. Perhaps I am just being extra cautious. But I would rather be that then the opposite. I do feel for the many businesses which have been feeling the crunch with loss of income, etc. I was recently contacted by PizzaSi and asked if I would like to try one of their 4-seerving size Pizza Quarantine boxes! They didn't need to ask me twice! I adore Pizza!

They are a young Italian company based in London that normally operates business to business, but due to this Covid-19 situation they decided to open their products on a home delivery service, offering Pizza Boxes to people like you and myself, rather than risk going out of business altogether! What a brilliant idea and concept and a wonderful example of making lemonade out of lemons!

This new range is a Make Your Own Pizza Kit. In a nutshell, it is a proper 4 serving food quarantine box, which is available to be delivered all over the UK. And for each box purchased they donate £5 to the NHS! (FABULOUS!) Making an authentic Italian Pizza at home has never been easier or more fun! All you need to do is to open the box and follow a few steps!

This box is jam packed with everything you need to do to feed your family and entertain them to a fun Pizza Night in! Every box contains:

4 X Hand-stretched 10-inch Pizza bases

500g of diced Mozzarella cheese

450g of Tomato Sauce

2 X Rosemary Foccacias
2 X portions of extra virgin olive oil
2 X portions of Balsamic vinegar
1 X jar of Green Pesto
2 X Puccia Breads
4 X soft drinks

Every product is well labeled so that you can carefully check them for ingredients and any allergens. Also included is this pamphet giving you detailed instructions on how to prepare everything included, as well as a recipe for a Pizza Margherita, heating and serving the Puccia Bread and how to prepare the Foccacia. Simple!

I went old school with one of the crusts, and prepared a Pizza Margherita according to the pamphet insructions. I drizzled the finished pizza with some of the pesto and added a handful of rocket with a drizzle of balsamic. YUMMO! Those hand stretched crusts are amazing and the cheese and sauce are exemplary. Excellent. I recommend using a pizza stone if you have one and getting it really hot so that you can achieve a nice crisp crust. I am in love!

I used another one of those beautiful hand-stretched crusts to make some easy Cheese Garlic Fingers which I served with a Sweet Garlic Dipping Sauce, very similar to the sauce that you can get with your Donairs back home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This was as simple as brushing the crust with some garlic butter and sprinkling it with cheese then popping it into the oven, again on a pizza stone.

While it is baking you can quickly whisk together the dipping sauce.

The two together are totally amazing! I really felt like I was having a yummy Pizzaria experience!!

Yield: 4

Author: Marie Rayner

Cheese Garlic Fingers with Sweet Garlic Dipping Sauce

Rich and garlicky and the dipping sauce is to die for.

Ingredients:

For the garlic fingers:

1 (10-inch) hand stretched pizza base
2 TBS melted butter
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
pinch salt
8 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded or chopped
small bunch chopped fresh parsley

For the sauce:

160ml sweetened condensed milk (2/3 cup)
60ml white vinegar (1/4 cup)
1/2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions:

Preheat a pizza stone in your oven which has been preheated to 220*C/425*F.
While they are preheating, melt the butter in a small saucepan. Add the garlic and cook for several minutes. Whisk in the salt.
Brush your pizza base all over with the garlic butter. Sprinkle with the cheese and parsley.
Transfer to the pizza stone and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until golden brown in spots and bubbly.
While the pizza is cooking, whisk together the sweetened condensed milk with the vinegar and garlic powder until smooth.
Cut the baked pizza into fingers and serve hot along with the sauce for dipping.

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I did a type of Vegetarian All Dressed Pizza with another one of the crusts. I added the sauce and cheese and then topped with some sundried tomatoes, thin slices of red onion, green garlic olives and chopped sweet cherry peppers. Again I baked it on the pizza stone to pizza perfection.

I scattered the top of it with some fresh basil leaves from the garden when it came out of the oven. Oh-so-tasty!

I accompanied everything with a delicious Heirloom Beetroot and Tomato Salad on the side and some of the foccaccia warmed up and ready to dip in some of the basil pesto.

The salad was amazing also, roasted heirloom beetroots with sliced heirloom tomatoes, a maple balsamic dressing and of course that cheddar. An artisinal cheddar I happened to have in the fridge. It went so very well with the smokiness of that maple balsamic dressing.