I wish I could say these were peppers that we grew in our garden, but that would be false.
Walt got them at Auchan up near Blois. Auchan is one of the French hypermarché chains.
The label said they were called "California" peppers. They were grown in Spain.
The peppers got lightly sauteed in olive oil and then they went on top of a pizza along with
some chunks of smoked chicken breast and some tomato sauce. Delicious.
Luckily, we have some peppers, some chicken, some sauce and some pizza dough left over.
Guess what's for lunch today...
Ken I know Auchan there is a lot of here ( Upper Silesia). I love this chain well-organised and expensive,
ReplyDeleteI'mma come to your house for lunch (hold the peppers on my slice, please)!
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ReplyDeleteI wish that people who run pizza restaurants would pre-cook their pepper and onion....
in the short time it takes to cook a pizza, they are always left raw!!
Not calazone, then!
ReplyDeleteYou had that on Sunday....
How about doing little pizza dough balls with a bit of cheese, tomato and herbs inside....
then while they are cooking, make a salad.
Serve the salad with the cooked pizza balls scattered on top....
along with a few strips of dry-cured ham.
Cooked pizza balls, now there's a good idea.......Lulu would love those!
DeleteThe calzone was my idea. I stuffed it with slice potatoes, blanched celery leaves, jambon cru and jambon de Paris, sauteed mushrooms,and grated Cantal, St-Nectaire, and Morbier cheese. Walt took photos.
DeleteWalt posted a photo of the actual pizza here.
ReplyDeleteAre you familiar with the word capsicum? Australia seems to call them both peppers or capsicum. I wonder what is your, that is American and French and maybe British take on the name?
ReplyDeleteMany of the cookbooks I own must have been printed in Australia as the ingredient lists always have capsicums!!
DeleteHere in Oregon, I just call them green, red, orange or yellow peppers...but I also know them as bell peppers! AND, we love Calzone here as Eugene has a wonderful Italian restaurant, Mazzis, famous for their Calzones!
Mary in Oregon
Hello Andrew, In my U.S. English, I call them bell peppers. Some might call them sweet peppers (as opposed to hot or chili/chilli/chile peppers). In French they are poivrons (as opposed to piments). The terminology is a mess in English, and I don't know much about usage in other English-speaking countries. Here's the Wikipedia page on Bell pepper.
ReplyDeleteIs there such a thing as a pizza ball on a salad? I'm curious about that idea. Those will always be "bell" peppers in my vocabulary. They are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteEvelyn, a pizza restaurant in Leeds used to do them as I described above....
Deletethey were excellent...
as was the roquet/rocket and small leaf salad that went with them!
My English husband calls them peppers, red, green or yellow. Where we live (The Netherlands) they're called paprika (emphasis on first syllable).
ReplyDeleteWe use the expression "roasted red peppers" in Am. Eng. and also green peppers and yellow peppers. Walt has planted some in the garden but they don't seem to be thriving the way other plants are out there. We'll see. Back eight or nine years ago, we had great success with bell peppers in the garden.
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