SA’s best traditional pizza maker keeps her dough and special tomato sauce recipes a closely guarded secret.
Aficionados will have to head to Adelaide Hills Gourmet Foods in Woodside’s chocolate factory complex on Friday and Saturday nights to try Sarina Waterman’s efforts.
Mrs Waterman says customers can judge for themselves if the bases gave her the edge in winning National Foods’ Best of the Best Pizza Challenge in the traditional category.
“Our dough is beautiful and we make all our own pizza sauces and use as much local produce as we can,” she said.
“Everything we use is South Australian – even our yiros uses lamb from Richard Gunner’s Feast Fine Foods.”
Mrs Waterman was in fine company at the prestigious food industry contest that was run during the Good Food and Wine Show at Melbourne last week.

The four other SA finalists included Pizza Giovanni of Mt Barker, Flipside Cafe of Littlehampton and cafes at Victor Harbor and Henley Beach.
Grumpy’s Brewhaus Restaurant of Hahndorf won the gourmet category of the SA finals.
Adelaide Hills Gourmet Foods had to create three pizzas.
Mrs Waterman didn’t win the best cheese and best smallgoods pizzas but she won the ‘Black Box Pizza’ section by selecting four of the mystery ingredients on offer.
The ingredients included capers, feta, basil pesto, pepperoni, char grilled eggplant in oil and spring onions.
The Hills cook had to write a recipe, design her pizza, prepare all her ingredients and cook her original creation within an hour.
“I really liked the pizza I produced – it was fantastic,” Mrs Waterman said.
“I bet that’s what got me over the line, my Black Box Pizza.”
Mrs Waterman has been working “on and off” in the food industry for 20 years.
She is not professionally trained but she loves good food and says quality ingredients are the key to top pizzas.
Adelaide Hills Gourmet Foods is owned by Deanna Tilker who collected the SA traditional category in the Best of the Best Pizza Challenge back in 2007 when she ran Fresh Temptations of Balhannah.
Her new venture at Woodside is not licensed and is only open Friday and Saturday nights.
“We make great food but you come and get it and go home,” Mrs Waterman said.

“We’re trying to keep it as low key as possible because we’re all mums and we don’t want to make things difficult.” – From The Courier, Mt Barker

Read Sarina’s recipe here

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