How Do You Like Your Pizza?
Mar 17, 2023 19:03:56 #
NickGee
Loc: Pacific Northwest
Soul Dr. wrote:
I like plain cheese pizza on a thin crust. I hate soggy crust pizza! I also like Hawaiian pizza also, although not too many people I know would even eat it. I guess it's an acquired taste.
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Mar 17, 2023 19:34:57 #
Now, that's funny! Probably a lot of people that say pineapple doesn't belong on pizza never tried it. 
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Mar 17, 2023 20:28:55 #
Soul Dr. wrote:
Now, that's funny! Probably a lot of people that say pineapple doesn't belong on pizza never tried it.
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I have had pineapple pizza many times and love it, but it still Sounds terrible! Lol!
Mar 17, 2023 20:52:05 #
The poor guy from Brooklyn looks like he could be Ron DeSantis' great grandfather!
That's a funny scene. I know there are similar photos of Piedmont North Carolinians forced to eat Columbia, SC, or Memphis, TN, or Fort Worth, TX, or Kansas City barbecue! Barbecue styles are feudin' issues.
Funny... We were in Italy in October. Their pizza isn't anything like what passes for Italian pizza here... or even in NYC. The crust is outrageously good, and the toppings are simple but top quality. Herbs and spices, aged cheeses, high-grade olive oil, and fresh tomatoes blew me away.
American pizza has been, well, Americanized! Not that that's a bad thing... except when we make it with GMO wheat crust, which is hard to digest, or fake American cheese, which is just nasty.
That's a funny scene. I know there are similar photos of Piedmont North Carolinians forced to eat Columbia, SC, or Memphis, TN, or Fort Worth, TX, or Kansas City barbecue! Barbecue styles are feudin' issues.
Funny... We were in Italy in October. Their pizza isn't anything like what passes for Italian pizza here... or even in NYC. The crust is outrageously good, and the toppings are simple but top quality. Herbs and spices, aged cheeses, high-grade olive oil, and fresh tomatoes blew me away.
American pizza has been, well, Americanized! Not that that's a bad thing... except when we make it with GMO wheat crust, which is hard to digest, or fake American cheese, which is just nasty.
Mar 17, 2023 21:01:42 #
burkphoto wrote:
The poor guy from Brooklyn looks like he could be ... (show quote)
The year before I graduated high school our family, myself and two younger siblings, went on one of those "If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium" tours of Italy. Our favorite pizza at the time was a hamburger pizza from a local pizzeria. We had a pizza in Italy and hated it - scant toppings and a lot of olive oil. I'm sure I would love it now.
Mar 17, 2023 21:28:23 #
We like it a lot of different ways, but when we make it ourselves we usually go with artichoke hearts, mushrooms and tomato chunks. Sauce is optional at that point. For cheese we usually do a combination of mozzarella and havarti, sometimes with a little romano sprinkled on top.
We also make a variation on Chicago style deep dish/stuffed pizza. One slice is a meal!
Last summer I started making it on the outdoor gas grill using a thin crust dough recipe. We'd make one with savory toppings and another with butter, brown sugar, chocolate, cinnamon, bananas and marshmallows for dessert.
I've also made it using piperade instead of sauce. Piperade is a tomato-onion-sweet pepper sauce used in Basque cooking. Opinions vary as to whether you should use green peppers or red peppers, we prefer the latter.
We also make a variation on Chicago style deep dish/stuffed pizza. One slice is a meal!
Last summer I started making it on the outdoor gas grill using a thin crust dough recipe. We'd make one with savory toppings and another with butter, brown sugar, chocolate, cinnamon, bananas and marshmallows for dessert.
I've also made it using piperade instead of sauce. Piperade is a tomato-onion-sweet pepper sauce used in Basque cooking. Opinions vary as to whether you should use green peppers or red peppers, we prefer the latter.
Mar 17, 2023 21:43:27 #
When we were in Turin Italy 16 years ago, we found a restaurant near the hotel that wasn't very big but had really good pizza, and in the hour or so that we were there they must have had 200 pizzas go out the front door, so obviously the locals liked it too.
It was interesting because nobody in the place spoke English, but they did have a menu in English that we could point to, and they had an antipasto bar that was even better than the pizza. And great profiteroles for dessert.
It was interesting because nobody in the place spoke English, but they did have a menu in English that we could point to, and they had an antipasto bar that was even better than the pizza. And great profiteroles for dessert.
Mar 17, 2023 21:46:14 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
The year before I graduated high school our family, myself and two younger siblings, went on one of those "If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium" tours of Italy. Our favorite pizza at the time was a hamburger pizza from a local pizzeria. We had a pizza in Italy and hated it - scant toppings and a lot of olive oil. I'm sure I would love it now.
It really is different, in a good way. But I still like the recipe I listed above, and variations on it. I like red onions and black olives, but my wife doesn't.
Mar 18, 2023 03:03:50 #
Mar 18, 2023 08:43:48 #
Remember the movie Mystic Pizza? Some years ago, our family visited Mystic. Looking for a place to eat, we ran across the pizza shop and stopped there. Naturally I believed it was a take-off from the movie but to my surprise, it actually was the inspiration for the film. It may not have been the best pizza I've ever had, but it was very good and I'm sure a local favorite. Even though it would be considered a "chick flick", I really liked the movie and have rewatched it a couple of additional times. I think this was the film that really blasted Julia Roberts into super stardom.
Mar 18, 2023 10:03:43 #
I felt the same way about pineapple until my son said to try a bite of his pineapple and ham slice. I was amazed how quickly my opinion was about it.
Mar 18, 2023 11:39:36 #
Having lived the first 30 years in NYC (Queens to be exact), I can attest that there is no finer pizza that can be found outside of Manhattan. Then moved to Texas and sadly most pizza restaurants do not compare. I have found a local place called "NY Pizza & Pints" which is close in quality and taste to NYC, but still not 100% NYC pizza. I typically order a Slicezilla, which is 1/6 of a 24" pizza, quite large for a slice, and optionally top it with pepperoni, meatballs, and artichoke...for $7.00. Used to be cheaper before inflation took over.
Methinks that a NYC pizza maker can move to Texas, take with him the same oven, the same kitchen, the same ingredients and still not have as good as it was in NYC. It must have something to do with the water!
Methinks that a NYC pizza maker can move to Texas, take with him the same oven, the same kitchen, the same ingredients and still not have as good as it was in NYC. It must have something to do with the water!
Mar 18, 2023 11:48:09 #
I find it interesting that when food critics and experts list their top pizza places, generally NONE of the top 10 are in New York or Chicago. FWIW, the best pizza I've ever had was in Ottawa Canada.
A few years ago there was a show (on the Food Network, I think) where they took identical flours and baked pizzas using water from several different cities. New York won, but I'm not sure the contest conditions were sufficiently rigorous, they brought in jugs of water from the other cities but I think they used NYC water straight from the tap.
A few years ago there was a show (on the Food Network, I think) where they took identical flours and baked pizzas using water from several different cities. New York won, but I'm not sure the contest conditions were sufficiently rigorous, they brought in jugs of water from the other cities but I think they used NYC water straight from the tap.
Mar 18, 2023 12:58:42 #
One other interesting thing: To me at least, the best Italian style pizza is made by Greeks! The Mystic Pizza I mentioned earlier was started by two Greek brothers. A pizza shop in Bethlehem, PA, that was really excellent was owned by a Greek gentleman and one of the best pizzas in the Charleston area is found at Athens -- a Greek restaurant.
Mar 18, 2023 15:22:08 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Having lived the first 30 years in NYC (Queens to ... (show quote)
Bobbyjohn, I was born and raised in The Bronx, NYC, and you are soooo right. there is NO PIZZA in the world like a New York pizza!!!!!! I moved to California when I was 19, wayyy back in the Stone Age, (1956) and I NEVER had a good pizza. I kept telling my wife, that the WORST New York pizza was 100% better than the best Los Angeles pizza...And in May of '91, I took her there and proved it. She is a total convert to New York pizza!!!
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