Anniversary dinner!

Hello everyone!

So me and Sara had a anniversary this weekend, celebrating 11 wonderful years together and looking forward to at least another 11.

So we decided to make a three course meal (dictated by me) nothing to fancy but a bit special none the less.

Starter

We went classical and easy here, just dates wrapped in Serrano-ham and stuffed with Gorgonzola for me and smoked Italian cheese for Sara.

Delicious and easy! Can you spot which one is mine? And I presume no recipe is needed but...

Pit the dates, wroll them in any ham you want and into the oven. Stuff dates with cheese if you want or sprinkle on top!

Main course

So here is where we put the most "bang", I had seen examples of a pizza called "Chicago deep dish style stuffed pizza". Go ahead Google it, I will wait...

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Looks wonderful doesn't it!?

I used this recipe and let the dough rise for 1½ days in the fridge: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/07/basic-new-york-style-pizza-dough.html

I used almost all the dough and only had a little left over...

Remove dough from fridge and let it come to room temperature over 1 hour or so. While that is happening make your pizza sauce! Tomato pure, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper to taste and let simmer for a while... mmhmmmm!

Once the dough has risen over night in the fridge take a spring pan and line it with the dough once you have shaped about 1/3 of it into a pizza shape.

Should look like this: But without the toppings.

Also set the oven to 225 degrees Celsius to get it warm while you are assembling the pizza.

Layer your stuff! No tomato sauce on the bottom though!

We put these layers in:

Mozzarella

Onion, Mushroom, Paprika

Salami

BBQ Chicken

Smoked Cheese

Onion, Mushroom, Paprika

Mozzarella

and some tomato sauce to top it off. 

The last picture is the "finished" product.

 Now take some more dough and roll it out and put over and seal the edges tightly! Also make some holes with your fork in the top to let air out.

Pour rest of tomato sauce in the middle and put into oven for about 45-55 minutes.

When coming out of the oven it should look like this... And then you remove the spring form... GENTLY!

Was nervous here, I mean if it isn't set it will collapse and just pour all over the stove...

It holds! So pretty!

Ready for service!

Look at the cheese!

Yummy yummy yummy!

The "slices" also held it's form quite well...

 It was a lot of food though so we didn't even manage to eat half of it... But it worked really well to re-heat!

Now in reflection and talking about taste, it was really good but I think we overdid it with toppings.. You couldn't really tell the salami apart from everything else.

So next time we will cut back on the cheese I think and add more salami instead. Now everything just drowned in cheese which is quite tasty in itself but not really what we where after.

The dough... mmmm nice!

Dessert

Now this was my big surprise for Sara, she knew the rest of the courses but not the dessert...

And I found a recipe online for homemade ice cream that requires no churning since we don't have a ice cream maker.

150g of condensed sweetened milk

1/3 cup whipping cream

1/4 cup cocoa powder

A bit of melted peanut butter (just throw it into the microwave quickly)

Reeses peanut butter cups, any you like.

Mix: Milk, cocoa powder and you'r peanut butter cups. I cut mine into quarters just to get a more even spread and smaller mouth fulls of the things since the large pieces are to big for ice cream I think.

Whip the cream to stiff peaks, it should be quite stiff!

Then fold the milk mixture into the cream gently, you should get a fluffy cream kind off thing. Then take a knife or spoon and get your peanut butter in there to get a kind of "marble effect".

Then top off with a few more peanut butter cups for looks!

It should look like this:

Put into the fridge over night or however long you want until ready to serve.

The serve and enjoy, if you like chocolate and peanut butter (or peanut butter cups, duuh!)

This will make you scream for ice cream!

It was soo good! Ben & Jerry's can go to hell! So easy to make just need to know 1 day beforehand and you can mix any tastes you want or mix anything you want into the mixture to get some crunch and taste!

I think I will put Oreos into one soon with chocolate... Or brownies.. Only your imagination is the limit! :)

Hope you enjoyed and that I explained everything well as usual!

//Stay full my friends!