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It's all about the dough.

Summer Lamb Pizza

Words Dana Sims Instagram @stone_and_twine

My summer lamb pizza has all the ingredients needed to transport you to the Mediterranean. The hero is the juicy charred lamb, with salty, tangy, herb and citrus flavours and plenty of texture from the layers of lamb, potato and red onion on a crisp homemade pizza base.

It’s quite satisfying to make your own pizza dough and this can be achieved very simply. Enjoy an impressive summer pizza that delivers, right from your own kitchen.

Ingredients

Pizza Dough 1¼ cups plain flour or bread flour 1 tsp dry yeast ½ tsp salt Pinch castor sugar ¾ cup warm water 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing and brushing Lamb Marinade 250gm lamb backstrap Juice of ½ lemon 1 tsp fresh oregano leaves 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves 1 clove garlic, finely chopped 1 tbs olive oil Pinch sea salt and ground black pepper

The Rest 1 small potato, sliced on a mandolin (or cut wafer thin) ¼ red onion, sliced thinly 2 tbs passata 120gm fresh mozzarella, sliced (or use grated mozzarella)

To serve 60gm Greek feta, crumbled 1 tbs tzatziki 1 tbs pine nuts (dry toasted in a pan for 1½ minutes) 1 tbs fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped ½ lemon, cut into wedges

Method

1. For the pizza dough, mix the dry ingredients together until combined, then add ¾ of a cup of warm water and the olive oil and bring together to form a rough dough. Knead for about five minutes until the dough is soft and smooth, then transfer to a greased bowl and cover with a tea towel. Rest in a warm place for at least 30 minutes until the dough has doubled in size. Roll the dough out into a thin circle or oval and place on a large pizza or oven tray (that has been brushed with oil). 2. Mix the ingredients for the lamb marinade in a bowl, add the lamb and set aside for 15 minutes. 3. Preheat the oven to 200°C. 4. While the dough is resting, heat a fry pan on high. Cook the lamb for 2 minutes each side, remove from the pan and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Slice thinly and set aside. 5. Spoon the passata onto the base of the pizza, top with mozzarella, potato and red onion and cook in the oven for 8 minutes. 6. Add the sliced lamb to the pizza and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. 7. Remove the pizza from the oven, transfer to a serving board, then top with the crumbled feta, splotches of tzatziki, pine nuts and parsley. Cut the pizza into slices and serve with lemon wedges.

Dana Sims is a Sydneybased food and prop stylist who has grown up in the Eastern Suburbs and loves to create delicious food for entertaining and family. She is inspired by the fresh produce we have access to in Sydney. For ideas, recipes and styling inspiration, check out her Instagram, @stone_and_twine.

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Trivial Trivia

Words Lisa Anderson Photo Alan Wang

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Triangle of Sadness

Genre Comedy Drama Reviewer Linda Heller-Salvador

Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund follows up his 2017 Palme d'Or winning film The Square with yet another d'Or winning film titled Triangle Of Sadness. Östlund’s modus operandi is amusingly scathing social satires that examine the hypocrisy of power dynamics and equal rights within relationships, as well as the assumed privilege of beauty and extreme wealth.

Social hierarchies are upended, and survival becomes the name of the game when a luxury yacht cruise containing a motley cast of the ship’s crew and uber-wealthy characters goes ridiculously awry.

If you’re after extravagantly eccentric scenarios and love delightfully cringe-worthy humour that goes way past being comfortable viewing, then you’re in for 147 minutes of giggles, gasps and squirming. This is a film that pushes the boundaries of outrageousness and will definitely divide the viewers into the love it or hate it camps.

Songs of Disappearance

Label Waterfront Records Reviewer @aldothewriter Rating  Did you know that a Northern Snapping Frog sounds like an old Irishman saying “Crapper”? Well, you do now. It was a lovely bit of news when I heard that Songs of Disappearance was number three on the ARIA charts. I simply had to listen to it. These days it can be hard to spend an hour alone in the rainforest immersed solely in the sounds of nature, but thankfully now you can put this on, turn the lights off, and transport yourself to a veritable frog orgy. Or you could just hide your speaker in a drainpipe and freak your neighbours out.

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Label Top Dawg Reviewer @aldothewriter Rating  SZA is best known as the vocal hook in Kendrick Lamar’s ‘All The Stars’, but sheesh, with S.O.S she has proven she is far more than just a feature artist. With a heavy dose of Frank Ocean-style R&B and Kendrick-like verbal barbs she’s delivered an undeniably great album. “Can’t trust nobody you ain’t been broke with,” is also a wonderful line for my mental health, as it means I can trust everybody. I expect I will be hearing this a lot this year, mainly out of the windows of P-platers at traffic lights (the cool ones that is, not the KIIS 106.5 kooks).

LITTLE SIMZ

NO THANK YOU

Label Forever Living Originals Reviewer @aldothewriter Rating  Little Simz has long threatened to break into my sad Saturday night playlists. The ones when everyone’s gone to bed, the headphones are on, and I’m getting lost in the lyrics while sobbing gently in my underpants. I reckon she’s finally cracked it! I always had high hopes for her, but we never quite clicked until now. She’s stripped back the production and has clearly decided to do whatever the hell she wants, with the industry suits firmly in her firing line. The only negative was I got too distracted listening to it and burnt my toast.