Flickr Find: The Fantastic Fungus-face!
Australia has become a real hotbed of pizza creativity. First we had
bugeyes, then a couple of pizzas from
jane.b. Now I've
just recieved a follow-up from the buyeye people and now this fellow has sent in an excellent example of happy artistry.
I just received this grinning guy from
David de Groot of Cedar Creek, Australia.
David was inspired by
jane.b's recent efforts and decided to try his own hand at the happy happy culinary craft.
After seeing how little Jane.b (whom I've personally met, charming lass btw, keen photographer too) did so well with her Happy Happy Pizza, I decided to do one myself.
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Simple but effective, and the children enjoyed it immensely.
I'm sure they did! Looks like a storebought crust with standard tomato sauce and mozzarella for a base, bacon hair, mushroom nose, ears and
goatee, red pepper smile and salami and black olive eyes.
Great choice of ingredients, although the mushroom can be kind of risky since it can go nasty during the baking process. However it appears that David was able to pull it off! Even the heavy cheese browning on the edges doesn't detract
from the expression on this charming fella.
It's getting tougher and tougher to judge these things. I'm thinking the time is coming to add a pizza poll to the web site so you guys can cast
your own votes.
In the meantime I must come up with a verdict. I was going to go with a 5 or 6 out of 10... but those little half-olive eyebrows say, "Yo, baby, what do you think of my cool bacon hair? Am I cute or what?!"
The charm and inspiration, not to mention the goatee, earns this pizza an extra mark so I'm giving this one an
8/10.
Thanks for sending this in, David! Well done!
You can visit the de Groot family web site here. (Some good-looking recipes on there!)
Click here and bask in the glory of this fabulous fungal creation in high-res!