I don’t want to be full! I should have skipped the savory pizza and gone straight for dessert. I don’t even know why we bother with mains when there is sugary creamy goodness to be had!
Except for that little thing called nutrition, one supposes.
Looking hopefully to The Husband, knowing that dessert pizzas are not normally his thing. Everyone else at the table is going to get some sort of brownie, but I can’t miss the opportunity for pizza-based naughtiness.
His eyes smile down at me. “Want to share something?”
“Yes… would you be okay with the banana pizza? You’d like it more than the apple one, right?”
“I’ll give it a go.”
Yay!
It arrives, a small disc in four quarters, with two scoops of ice cream and a tiny puddle of caramel sauce on the side.
Ice cream and pizza for you, ice cream and pizza for me. Spooning the caramel over the banana pizza in a drizzle of dark amber.
Cutting a demure slice. The bananas are packed onto the pizza in long strips, plump and yellow. The menu said they’d be caramelised but they are most definitely not. There is no sign of any other cooking besides being heated in an oven. Also they were reported to be on a bed of crème patissiere. Er… no. They are straight onto the base… or perhaps there is a tiny smear somewhere that I can’t detect.
But what does it taste like?
Delicious.
The banana is warm and almost melting in its softness. Despite the lack of caramel – can’t even taste the sauce I dotted my slice with – the dessert is rich from the intense ripe banana flavour. The base is crisp but with a softness around the fruit and fulfills it’s job of ferrying the banana to my mouth. The ice cream helps cut through the intensity, but is a bit too cold and frozen, and not of the best quality.
But that banana is amazing. I could eat that by itself.
All too quickly my plate is as empty as my notoriously fussy husband’s.
Standing up to go. All of a sudden my stomach is as full as a bowling ball. But worth it. Mmm banana.
Rating:
Specifics: Hawaiian Islands Pizzetta from GPK Chatswood
Banana Pizza
Oh no… I’m full.
I don’t want to be full! I should have skipped the savory pizza and gone straight for dessert. I don’t even know why we bother with mains when there is sugary creamy goodness to be had!
Except for that little thing called nutrition, one supposes.
Looking hopefully to The Husband, knowing that dessert pizzas are not normally his thing. Everyone else at the table is going to get some sort of brownie, but I can’t miss the opportunity for pizza-based naughtiness.
His eyes smile down at me. “Want to share something?”
“Yes… would you be okay with the banana pizza? You’d like it more than the apple one, right?”
“I’ll give it a go.”
Yay!
It arrives, a small disc in four quarters, with two scoops of ice cream and a tiny puddle of caramel sauce on the side.
Ice cream and pizza for you, ice cream and pizza for me. Spooning the caramel over the banana pizza in a drizzle of dark amber.
Cutting a demure slice. The bananas are packed onto the pizza in long strips, plump and yellow. The menu said they’d be caramelised but they are most definitely not. There is no sign of any other cooking besides being heated in an oven. Also they were reported to be on a bed of crème patissiere. Er… no. They are straight onto the base… or perhaps there is a tiny smear somewhere that I can’t detect.
But what does it taste like?
Delicious.
The banana is warm and almost melting in its softness. Despite the lack of caramel – can’t even taste the sauce I dotted my slice with – the dessert is rich from the intense ripe banana flavour. The base is crisp but with a softness around the fruit and fulfills it’s job of ferrying the banana to my mouth. The ice cream helps cut through the intensity, but is a bit too cold and frozen, and not of the best quality.
But that banana is amazing. I could eat that by itself.
All too quickly my plate is as empty as my notoriously fussy husband’s.
Standing up to go. All of a sudden my stomach is as full as a bowling ball. But worth it. Mmm banana.
Rating:
Specifics: Hawaiian Islands Pizzetta from GPK Chatswood