Pizza, Pizza...

These beauties are in our garden, they are particularly loved by my mother. They are bearded irises which are called Eleanore's pride, as her name is Eleanore, she feels they do her particularly proud.

The other day I got a phone call from a friend I had not seen for a while in the morning. She asked if I wanted to come over that night for pizza and a chat. I love spontaneous invitations like that, so naturally I agreed. She picked me up after work, and we got some cheese, crackers, wine, strawberries and deep-freeze pizzas ( which I never get personally, but they were ok) and went to her house. We had a lovely, relaxed and very gossipy evening.

Then the next day I was stuck for ideas what to cook, and as it was a lovely day in the end decided on a pizza of my own making, as that seemed a Southern European thing to eat in the nice, warm weather.
I felt lazy though as well and could not be bothered to faff around with making pizza dough. We have a very nice health food store nearby, so I went in there and bought two very nice (spelt) pizzas and to continue the lazy theme some tomato sauce (organic) as well.

First I drizzled a teaspoon of olive oil over each of the pizzas...
Then I mixed three tablespoons of the tomato sauce with three tablespoons of creme fraiche, some homemade Harissa paste and loads of chives ( they were around and I had to use them up)...
I spread that over the pizzas and topped them with quartered artichoke hearts, spinach I had cooked and tossed with garlic and a bit of olive oil, the best ham ever (a grilled ham our organic butcher makes) and buffalo mozzarella...
When they came out of the oven I sprinkled them with a Swiss hard cheese which is called Belper Knolle, that made a lovely change from the Parmesan cheese I would have otherwise used, and this is the end result...

With a glass of rose wine, that actually made a gorgeous meal. Sometimes the uninspired days can work out quite well.

Wishing you all some lovely meals this weekend!