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Sicilian style take away pizza

So it happens that even I have no time to cook at times! These days, besides work, I am chauffeuring my daughter around to extra dance lessons and rehearsals for the final year dance show. Last evening we came home quite tired and decided to stop to get a take-way pizza.

We went to one of the local restaurants in Ispica, Il Mercato, and got our pizzas. I chose a new topping I had never tried before, Pizza Ispica, the restaurant's homage to my dad's town: Ispica.
The town is renown for the Carota Novella di Ispica IGP (Protected Geographical Identification label) caracterised by an intense colour, strong flavour and taste. So the Ispica Pizza had a carrot cream instead of tomato sauce as a base, mozzarella and grilled vegetables on top. It was a great light taste perfect for one of the first hot Sicilian summer nights.

Although we took it home in the usual carbord box, it was still very good when I ate it. I must say that after the first bite I thought something was missing, then I went to get one of my favourite ex.v. olive oils from the Ispica area, my friends Padova's San Basilio, and the combination was perfect.

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June 23, 2011
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