Our 60th slice of toast - Ham and pineapple

One of my favourite take away pizza toppings has to be Hawaiian – ham and pineapple. I find that pineapple adds a great sharp sweetness to savoury foods such as sweet and sour Chinese and pizza and this doesn’t differ within the toast realms. During unintentional market research, I couldn't believe the number of people that felt pineapple was out of its depth taking part in savoury dishes. They're damn wrong.

We went for a cheap ham product from the Sainsbury’s basics range, consisting of just 78% pork which is more meat than Billy Bear. It still tasted quite hammy too. The pineapple was also from the Sainsbury’s basics range, tinned and already chopped for a much appreciated added convenience.

Grace opted for laying a couple slices of ham down as a base, followed by a pineapple scatter. This proved to be an efficient method of avoiding the toast becoming too soggy under the juicy pineapple. I on the other hand opted for an all over scatter, ripping the ham in to shreds. Unfortunately, the 20% water content of the ham proved quite unstable, thus culminating in a rather flopped result. In any case, the flavour dispersion was great. We both enjoyed this.