Bathurst Weekend

So who doesn't love a hot weekend with one of the biggest car races n Australian TV? The Bathurst 1000 weekend had finally arrived. Ever since I was little my dad would put on Bathurst from Friday night right until Sunday afternoon all I heard all weekend was "shhhh!!!" and the sound of V8 supercars going past really fast. 

Brocky was a household name and someone who was admired in our house and it was inevitable when he died that the cardboard cut out would be brought from the garage into the living room each Bathurst race. Congratulations to Craig Lowndes and Steve Richo for winning such an amazing race. 

Oh and most importantly HOLDEN WON!!!

Now onto baking. Bathurst weekend has always meant easy dinners and takeout. One of my all time favourites was homemade pizza, it became a Sunday night tradition for many years of my childhood. So here is the recipe that has slowly been developed over a number of years in my household, of course pizza is done to your own taste and you can chop and change as much of this as you want. The age old debate pineapple on pizza will most likely come up. My opinion on this: how can you not have a pizza with pineapple on it!? It adds sweetness and its soooo yummy! This debate between my friends can sometimes get nasty and last time we made pizzas it was like a war was developing, we had sides and everything!

In the picture I actually made my own dough however usually we buy the pre-made bases from Coles or Woolies or just use the wraps that are in the house. 

Toppings 

• Tomato sauce/pizza sauce 
• Cheese (grated)
• Tomato (sliced)
• Pineapple (chucks)
• Onion (sliced)
• Capsicum (sliced)
• Ham (sliced)
• Bacon (small pieces) 

Method 

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. 
2. Place the base on a baking tray covered in baking paper.
3. Spread over sauce (you can use; tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, pizza sauce, sweet chilli sauce, etc). 
4. Sprinkle a light layer of cheese over the sauce layer.
5. Add desired toppings. 
6. Bacon: you can either pre-cook the bacon in a fry pan on the stove or you can just throw it on the pizza and let the oven do the work. 
7. Final layer of cheese. 
8. Place in oven for 15 to 20 minutes (keep an eye on this because depending what you have on your pizza it may take longer or shorter). 
9. Enjoy! 

There is my quick, easy, yummy and healthy dinner that everyone will love!