This is my best pizza yet… the crust, kneaded to perfection, was also baked to a glorious crispness only available on a stone bed, preferably in a wood fired oven, although an oven with a heating element will do. I’ve found that a gas oven is dreadful for producing a crisp pizza. Recession or no, the economy toppings are the way to go, here with bell pepper, onion, and rain kissed basil.

WHEN I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies 5
But keep your fancy free.’
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again, 10
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty, 15
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.