* Chicken Pizza Pasta Bake

I love home made pizza and make it all the time but as yet have never taken the time to photograph and share it. Possibly because I know there will always be another opportunity.... which is good, because I'd fully intended to make and photograph a pizza this time but I was halfway through making the pizza sauce when I realised I didn't have any strong bread flour to make a pizza base, so I had to raid the cupboards for something else to take it's place... which is par for the course in this house.

Thankfully, I've developed a new shopping addiction... it doesn't replace the old one - there will always be spinach in my fridge (well duh!)... I've been on a bit of a pasta purchasing splurge just recently, and have gone from the bog standard macaroni, penne, spaghetti and fusilli sitting in neat rows in glass jars on my shelves... to just about every type of pasta I can lay my hands on that I have never cooked with, including the tortiglioni in this recipe, all wedged into various nooks and crannies throughout the house.

It's a small house.

So.

This is one of those recipes that just sort of 'happened' in a good way. Neil loved it. I loved it. I'll be cooking it again. I have a positive plethora of pasta to use up.

If we have a nuclear war - I'm set. Though it could get a bit dull after the seventh year. Perhaps I should turn my purchasing power to rice and grains as well...

...just in case.

* Pita Pizzas

I'm always struggling to find ways to use up fresh food... before it's no longer fresh... and these little pizzas fulfil several agendas. They're quick and easy, you can design your own topping, they use up leftovers and almost everyone loves them.

I say almost, because I have "A Josh". I think we all have one somewhere within our families. Mine doesn't like pizza... I am constantly checking his birth certificate to make sure he is mine.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I fight a constant battle between what I want to eat, what I have to eat, and what time I have to cook. I'm not the worlds most organised individual so I'm often scrabbling around at the end of the day for something half decent for us to eat, that I can put together fairly quickly and bung on a plate with a wodge of salad (or not).

I have the best of intentions in the morning, but come late afternoon and evening I've usually lost the plot. It's a personality defect that my nearest and dearest tolerate with aplomb. Today, for instance, I had fully intended to get up early, get my jobs done, walk the dog, cook stuff, blog stuff, sit in the garden and contemplate the importance of being.... then walk the dog, cook more stuff...

...I've walked the dog and... *sigh*. I've walked the dog. That's it.

OH!... and watched a film.

You can see why a meal as quick and easy as pita pizza, comes in handy occasionally. You can use any type of pita bread, but I prefer circular wholemeal ones and of course, you can make up your own toppings depending on what you have available. 

I've given you a couple of ideas below, but have at it!