Pizza Perfect

Pizza is the perfect get-together food. You eat it with your hands so you don’t worry about putting out cutlery. You need not bring out your good china – in fact, it tastes better on a napkin and a plastic plate. There’s also this chill and hang loose vibe about pizza that makes people friendlier to each other, even if the group you’ve gather are not all from the same bunch of friends. 

I had this party-perfect night today when Kit made his now famous (among my circle of friends) pizza pies. We had a few Expomal International staff and some ex ones as our guest base. I widened the degrees of separation with the very talented videographer Skeet Yap who shoots for Expomal, and Julian Liang, ex-banker.

My vat of salsa, with organic green tomatoes mixed with commercial reds.

Kit was hauled into drudgery early in the morning to dice tomatoes and red onion for my salsa. It spent the day chilling while I went off to work after defrosting passion fruit pulp in readiness for an aloe vera, nata and jelly dessert. 

Pepperoni with black olives and mushrooms.

Pepperoni with red peppers and Habenero cheese. Spicy, spicy!

The storm that hit Kelana Jaya and Subang made everyone glad of the warmth radiating from the kitchen, and the hot pizzas were greeted with delight. Kit made his usual pepperoni ones, with red peppers, olives, capers and his strong tomato basil sauce, along with Habenero cheese. This time, he also presented a new invention – a wasabi mayonnaise pizza with chicken pepperoni. That was much appreciated by the Buddhist friends, Julian and Jess Yeoh. Everyone loved the originality of the sauce and how it was sweet and yet spicy.  

Chicken loaf with Kit's new mayo-wasabi sauce.

The final half and half of pepperoni and chicken loaf.

Skeet brought us a great bottle of Chilean red. This Cab Sauv was really a great accompaniment to the pizzas. It was fruity, mellow and very drinkable – a social little wine. 

Skeet's great choice for the evening!

Dessert was served in my big Jasper Conran bowl, and I was very chuffed that it went down so well. It was just diced up Cocoon jelly, but the pairing of aloe vera in syrup and tangy passion fruit really made it sing! 

 Thanks everyone for the great company!