Just when you thought you should cancel...

Last night at pizza night we were all feeling the consequences of over-indulging at my birthday celebration the night before. The outlook was rather bleak - could our creative juices break through the doldrums?

However, Sara surprised us all with rather innovative ingredients. She decided to use an Alfredo sauce as the base for both pizzas. Pizza number one was an earthy combination of artichoke hearts, mushrooms, and bacon bits. Pizza number two was absolutely divine with sun dried tomato pesto, tomatoes, an Italian dry-cured salami (Sopressata), basil and obviously both pizzas were topped with the customary freshly sliced mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.

The most amazing part of the night was actually the perfect crust Sara achieved - just look at that beautiful crust (right). Sara said that she pre-heated the grill by turning all the burners on and then turning all but the outside burners off by the time the pizzas went on to the grill.

Perfect wine, perfect pizza, perfect company, perfectly surprising!