Yesterday was one of those insanely busy days, starting out with the excellent crypto breakfast hosted by Blockstarters then a cascade of meetings and running around closing out the week. Did we feel like cooking? Not so much!

Ta-da! Pizza!

We fell back on an old favourite, homemade pizzas. Mine is on the right, and @tim-beck's is on the left in the photo above..

The secret ingredient: delicious jalapeno relish on the base, under the mozzarella.

We got that from Country Meat Market, not far from where we live.

Uh-oh...looks like we'd better get some more soon!

After the mozzarella layer, @tim-beck sprinkled origanum (oregano for our North American friends), then the customisation began.

Common ingredients between the two pizzas

When you're making pizza together, it helps to have some shared toppings. Last night, ours were:

• diced bacon, lightly fried
• avocado slices (from baby avocadoes - a newish product here in South Africa...good idea)
• sun-dried tomatoes (sliced up)

We decided not even to bother with glamour elements like mushrooms (didn't have any), peppers (didn't have any), olives (open a new pack? the effort...) or feta (didn't have any paper towel left to dry it). Are you getting the depth of the Friday feel by now?

Special ingredients

The pizza on the left had the following special ingredients:

• capers
• anchovy fillets

The pizza on the right went with roasted artichokes instead.

I also sprinkled another South African special on my slices....

Anyone who hasn't tried those Fynbos products...please do. They're amazing. You can order online, they deliver and the prices are better than in the few retailers which stock them in Joburg. Worth the wait of a few days to get your favourite chipotle condiment.

That gave mine some extra bite. Mmmmmm....

How did they go down?

So there you have it, folks - that's how you cope with a Friday which manages to roll the whole week up into one day and you just don't feel like cooking, but you know that you can do it better than many restaurants.

Those pizzas were seriously tasty, but too much!

We just had the leftover halves for lunch now. Almost better the second day.

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