Pizza Fun

My sister Elain joined John and I here at the Humpy for Christmas, she gave John a pizza stone for Christmas. Last night we decided to christen the stone.
There were no instructions with the stone , but after watching many cooking shows on T.V. we remembered that the stone had to be hot. I am not usually a fan of cooking with yeast but dragged out 'The Donna Hay Magazines' of which I have many (all of them in fact) as I am a huge fan.
The dough was so easy to make and was in my opinion a success. It did everything it was supposed to do. (rise)

Once the dough was reacting how it should there was great excitement , so on with the toppings.

The first pizza was to be a Garlic one (once again a Donna suggestion).

Fresh Garlic mixed with Olive Oil and painted onto the base then sprinkled with Fresh Parmesan cheese, scattered with Sage leaves (fresh from the Humpy herb garden).

Here is the result, but we had a slight problem, I think you can see the edges are showing signs of burn't pizza base. It still tasted great though.

Next pizza was to be Potato ,Rosemary and boccincini, but by now the stone was far too hot and the base was black but we still ate it but by now we were starting to rethink the stone heat thing.

Of course we had to have the meat lovers for the man of the Humpy and this had hot hungarian Salami with fresh tomatoes that Elain prepared from a Jamie Oliver tutorial she had seen on Foxtel. This was topped with fresh Mozzarella. Once again spectacular but burnt base.

We weren't going to give up until such time as we had perfected the base, we decided that the stone did not have to be over the open grill section and didn't need to be as hot.

Our final Pizza was fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and basil leaves drizzled with olive oil.

Finally we had got it right but by now we were all so full that we put it in the fridge so the man of the Humpy can have it reheated for his lunch today.

Rummaging

We are back at the Humpy for Christmas and today whilst out buying last minute supplies I was wheeled past the tip shop (aka The Shed). I wondered why John was keen to come with me to buy flowers , he obviously had another agenda. I have to be in the mood to rummage in this place as it is a bit yukey but we had a good find. John was actually looking for some old fence palings to make us a table so I just wandered off into this place and look what I found.

A new coffee table and an armchair. The armchair cost us $5.00 and the table was $25.00.

Now I know you are all saying yuk, but stayed tuned they will both have a new life.

These pieces will have their new home in the guest accomodation which is under the main house.

Finally some Sun

As you can see from my previous post we have had our share of rain and overcast conditions.
A couple of weekends back my brother decided to come visit and see our humpy for himself , as I had kept promising I would put the photos on the net but due to my slackness I hadn't got around to it.
Unfortunately the weather was awful and this place does not look anything without the sun shining so these photos are for him. Maybe he will come back soon !

Just look at the colour of that water , it was so clear , very inviting.

Temperatures were just perfect about 25 degrees and the water temperature 19 degrees.