Pumpkin Pizza

Today the day came to try a recipe I have been wanting to try out for a long time, pumpkin pizza  with  butternut squash, courgette, basil  and yes, mozzarella cheese

The day began with the now customary Saturday morning trip to the Stuttgart market to gather the goods :-)

  

amongst my distractions were these big shake'y seed pods. I was super tempted to get a few 

and also

 

Carrots...

(!) 

For the pizza base I used Jamie Olivers Recipe HERE, i mean im not prepared to go on guess work when yeast is involved (!)I made half of his suggested portions to make 3 decent sized pizzas

..It worked REALLY well although their was a bit of a heart stopper when I thought I had bought something else instead of yeast. ( its hard, they have different words over here, and "hefe" could be anything...right?)

Sauce
Cup of Tomatoes
Cup of Pumpkin
4 cloves of garlic
Sugar to taste
olive oil

Boil tomater, garlic and pumkin, drain and mash. Return to heat and add olive oil and sugar for 10 mins until sauce looks like a pizza sauce ( y'know like...)

Put in a fridge and cool...

Roast the Pumpkin, Squash and Corgette ( i got a nice yellow one!)  whole, with a doucing of olive oil and salt. Leave to cool and chop into slices

Prep the pizza base, apply sauce first, mozzerella second. Then follow up with  basil, squash, pumpkin, and corgette. Drizzle with oil and put in oven until cooked (? until it looks cooked i suppose)

I honestly think the secret weapon
ingredient here is the fresh basil. After my 1st basil plant died a week after buying it, I decided that I would take a risk with another. I made sure to douse the leaves with olive oil before ovening to prevent them from going black. Here's to the longevity of my new plant...(if it manages to get through the withdrawal symptoms from living in a chemical pumped gas house)

epic fail

As i said, 3 pizzas were made..

 

Round two c. 18.00 with the Heilmanstr. krew
Round three c.21.00 with the remaining Heilmanstr. Krew

ruairi :-)

 

London :-)

Im certainly excited for the forthcoming weekend ( and Monday and Tuesday!)

Because...

1) Im returning to London for a brief visit and..

2) I will be chilling with the sista's in Tir Eolas ( they insist on being called sistas' Btw Fyi, yo' mum wuhks in Macdonulds kind of way...)

We have a gig in the Troubadour on Tuesday, do come if your near and like music of a rustic nature..

Although, its possibly probably likely that the program WONT include my a cappella arrangement of " girls just wanna have fun" ( i fought for it peeps, i promise) Laura has written one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard :-)

were a serious bunch really...promise...

(!)

ruairi :-)

Große Schlagzeugnacht

Tonight is the first of three Große Schlagzeugnacht(s) in Stuttgart..

I get to hit a tam tam and a gong at the same time with metal bars( along with 11 other percussionists!!!) in a piece by Xenakis called Persephassa,which requires players to be dispersed evenly around the performing space

Its VERY loud and brilliant :-)

also

I get a waterphone solo... courtesy of...

Richard Waters who invented the instrument :-D

and i get to play my bodhran :-D

EXCITED!

gosh, Ive cited Wikipedia alot in this  blog entry...

                    (!!!)

ruairi :-)