Geordie~Italian Fusion Pizza!

~  Menu  ~

Ham and Pease Pud Pizza

Sparkling Water

(tho' should have been Newcastle Brown, Red Wine or a cuppa)

Marzipan Trimmings

Coffee

Today, for a minute or so, I was at a complete loss for an interesting lunch so decided to sort out the fridge a bit and see if I could be inspired.  I was, almost immediately.

I took out the almost obligatory ham and pease pudding and behind it was half a pizza base (I have to admit to cheating here - if I am only having pizza for myself I buy roasted garlic flatbread from Tesco, cut it in half and this makes two dinner pizzas for me, I do often make my own pizza bases too - promise!) and inspiration struck...

Traditional Geordie Pizza! 

I spread the base with pease pudding, topped it with sliced ham, baked till crisp and served it with a green salad all drizzled with balsamic glaze.  This was so very much deliciouser than I was expecting!

Almost every week I cook my real, and Geordie, man a ham and make pease pudding with the stock, for pease pudding recipe see here, it's very easy and worthwhile!

Whilst my pizza was cooking I marzipanned our Christmas Cake and then after eating the pizza I sat down with a cup of coffee and a few marzipan scraps. 

After a little while I went into the kitchen for more marzipan scraps and on my third or fourth visit for more I decided to gather all the scraps (that were left) and keep them to make Chewy Marzipan Cookies ~ see here for the recipe, I don't think you'll regret it!

The ice cream shown in the picture, sandwiching the cookies so delightfully, was, of course, made in accordance to my super easy no churn, no ice cream maker recipe which my book Lush Ice Cream without a Machine  is all about - in this case I made Cherry Ice Cream, obviously!

overs which is why I wrote Creative Ways to Use Up Leftovers to encourage others in my passion!