Cooking for one: Nigella's Naan Pizza

I absolutely love pizza and enjoy making it from scratch when I don't have anything better to do, but when in a rush and strapped for cash, Nigella's Naan Pizza is a great way to have pizza quickly and inexpensively using ingredients you can have stored in the cupboard for a rainy day. The naan bread also gives the pizza an unusual but lovely fragrant flavour. Use whichever toppings you please but here is my creation using Italian buffalo mozzarella, my third and final mozzarella recipe this week.
Preheat the oven too 220°C. Simply take one naan bread, and spread a thin cover of perhaps one or two tablespoons of any plain pasta tomato sauce. Then add thin slices of a third of 1 buffalo mozzarella ball and some sprigs of fresh thyme. Place on a baking tray in the oven for 5 minutes or until melted and slightly golden. When out of the oven, add a couple of slices of torn up Parma ham, slice and enjoy. A little bit of heart-warming goodness on a miserable January afternoon!

Cooking for One: Herb & Mozzarella Burger

Ditch the plastic cheese slice for a delicious cheese-filled burger made with the finest fresh ingredients from Andrews. The picture really doesn't do this burger justice. The smells that filled the kitchen were incredible and as for the taste, you're going to have to make it yourself to experience it...
Ingredients

For the burger:
100g mince beef
1/3 of a buffalo mozzarella ball
Teaspoon of dried oregano/mixed herbs
1 clove garlic peeled and crushed
1 shallot peeled and finely chopped
Olive oil, salt and pepper
To serve:
burger bun or roll sliced open
mixed lettuce leaves
mayonnaise
ground paprika (optional)
1 smoked bacon rasher


Pre-heat the grill to 220°C. Mix together the mince beef, onion, herbs and garlic in a bowl. Add enough olive oil to help bind the mixture and season with salt and pepper before mixing again. Pat the mixture in your hand, keeping it in a round shape making it as thin as possible. Judge how much mozzarella you think will fit inside the burger, the meat might not wrap around if you use too much. Place the mozzarella in the middle of your burger patty and wrap the meat around the cheese, making sure all edges are sealed and working into a good burger shape, (left).

Place a sheet of tin foil on your grill pan and cook your burger for 8 minutes, 4 minutes each side. In the meanwhile, make your paprika mayonnaise. In a small bowl or glass, mix 1-2 tbsp mayonnaise with 1 teaspoon paprika, set to one side. When it gets to 4 minutes, carefully turn over the burger, add your burger bun pieces (inner side up), and your bacon rasher. After 4 minutes remove everything from the grill and assemble. Spread plenty of mayonnaise on the bread, add burger then salad, then bacon.

Cooking For One: Buffalo Clementine Salad

Cooking for one at uni, I'm normally obliged to not buy certain things if I'm not going to be able to eat it all, especially if it's expensive and I don't want to be eating the same meal for three nights in a row. Buffalo Mozzarella might not seem exciting but when it's really good quality, like the one we sell at Andrews, its smells and tastes divine. This week I'm going to create 3 delicious yet different meals to make the expense worth it.

My first creation: Mozzarella, Clementine and Parma Ham salad. This combination, admittedly stolen from J.O, is great as all three different textures work really well together. I simply tore up some mixed salad leaves and rocket (the rest to be used later in the week), tore up two slices of Parma ham and sliced one clementine into segments. I want to make the mozzarella last three meals so made a small slit in the top of the bag and poured the 'milk' into a small bowl. I then split the mozzarella into three and placed  two pieces into the bowl, covered and put in the fridge. The milk is necessary to keep the cheese from going dry. The remaining third was again torn and arranged on the plate. A small amount of extra virgin oil can be drizzled over with a sprinkling of black pepper.