Favorite Pizza?

fureverywhere

fureverywhere

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We've got the burger thread, lets add PIZZA! If it wasn't for family I'd be vegetarian except for the rare steak and baked potato a few times a year. But pizza I could do almost every day. Well grease, sodium...probably not a good idea every day...But where do you get and what do you put on your favorite pie?

We have a place in town with wood burning ovens. Either a white pie or spinach and sun dried tomatoes and I'm very happy. They have Italian sodas in the cooler too. Much sharper and less sweet than average...nice mix with the pie.
 

Frozen. Pepperoni and/or Italian sausage. Extra cheese, if ordered out, which is rare.

I have a home recipe with sausage from my aunt. It's loaded with sauce. What you'd *really* call a pie. And really good.
 
Pepperoni, olives and mushrooms is perfect. I won't turn my nose up at any good pie though.. :bigwink:
 

I like NY style pizza, I usually just get a plain cheese, but sometimes like onion or regular bacon on it. If made well, I like a nice Pesto pizza too. I don't love it enough to eat it every day, but once every couple of weeks is nice.


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Pepperoni ranks #1. Other, lesser toppings are still okay in a pinch, though.:p Y'all know I could eat pizza every day, 3 times a day.

Home-made by little old Italian ladies is heaven. Second best is from the pizzerias of Little Italy in NYC. Third is my own hand-made.

Unfortunately I'm a lazy cuss and I don't drive, so my usual ordering option is either Domino's or one of the local sandwich shops which makes a surprisingly good pie.

REAL Italian-style pizza is almost like a stew - haven't seen it made that way since I was in NY.
 
Oh, I'm waiting for Superbowl Thursday, the Thursday before the Superbowl.

Dominos will have medium cheese pies for $3.99, no limit. I'm clearing out the freezer chest and hoping Dominos has an extra 18-wheeler available ...

Nom, nom, nom ... :D
 
Yeah can't forget the pineapple, maybe some mushrooms and Feta cheese.

My son used to manage a few Dominos...oooh the custom orders we packed away...One I remember in the village, still a landmark I'm sure, was Ray's Pizza. Sicilian, square cut and overflowing with greasy goodness...what a mess but nothing like it.

I've got matzo ball soup simmering but you know what I'm getting the munchies for...
 
Ugh.

Roomy puts mayo on her burgers - JUST mayo. I could see it mixed with other condiments, but ...

My brother used to put ketchup on everything, and I DO mean everything. Weird.
 
Don't start me on ketchup especially in relation to pizza. My relatives still live in small town PA. It took decades for the pizza chains to get in there. My cousins used to go to a corner pizzeria and bring back what I can only describe from memory...still mildly traumatized...a wonder bread baked crust with ketchup and melted American cheese...no garlic, oy that they would allow a garlic within city limits. They thought it was the bomb, I'd slink off to the pantry for a Fluffernutter.
 
I like a veggie pizza with lots of mushrooms, cheese and black olives, maybe a few bits of pineapple and onions.
 
fureverywhere said:
Don't start me on ketchup especially in relation to pizza. My relatives still live in small town PA. It took decades for the pizza chains to get in there. My cousins used to go to a corner pizzeria and bring back what I can only describe from memory...still mildly traumatized...a wonder bread baked crust with ketchup and melted American cheese...no garlic, oy that they would allow a garlic within city limits. They thought it was the bomb, I'd slink off to the pantry for a Fluffernutter.
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Oh, I've had some horrible concoctions here in PA that they called "pizza". It's especially funny when you get the German / Polish folks stuffing their pizzas with potato filling.

I agree with the Fluffernutter.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I like NY style pizza, I usually just get a plain cheese, but sometimes like onion or regular bacon on it. If made well, I like a nice Pesto pizza too. I don't love it enough to eat it every day, but once every couple of weeks is nice.


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Ditto that ^

There is a place just up the street, though the people are from New Jersey, they make a pizza very close to the NY style pizza in taste. When I do go about twice a year, I get one slice cheese and one with pepperoni on it.
 
A little Pizza poetry:

The Roman poet Virgil wrote:

Their homely fare dispatch’d, the hungry band
Invade their trenchers next, and soon devour,
To mend the scanty meal, their cakes of flour.
Ascanius this observ’d, and smiling said:
“See, we devour the plates on which we fed.”

Apparently a sort of flatbread was baked on the soldier's shields, then loaded with whatever was on hand (horse meat, donkey meat, mystery meat.....)

In 1967, I was traveling in Italy for the first time and was very excited to get some "Italian Pizza". Little did I know that the "Italian" idea of pizza was a slab of pizza dough with, if you were lucky, a teaspoon or so of tomato sauce spread on it, a dandruff-like scattering of cheese and about a gallon of olive oil poured on it. OK, I exaggerate....it was only a quart.
 
Yes.... that accurately describes the original Naples pizza...

Although I'm from Chicago... the Chicago style deep dish, while good, is not my choice. I like thin crust.. with mushroom, onion and sausage. ... and it MUST be cut into squares.. NOT slices.. That's how we roll in Chi-Town, with every neighborhood having it's own pizza parlor... and everyone swearing theirs is the best.

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No tomato sauce,just pesto,with roasted red bells and roasted eggplant. Don`t knock it til you`ve tried it-IF you can find it. Not many places offer it. We also like pesto,spinach and fresh garlic when we can`t get the other.
 
The eggplant pizza sounds very good Mrs. R. I have re-discovered roasted eggplants and find I can make a mini pizza in very hot oven using round slice of eggplant, topped with thin tomato slice and mozz cheese on top --- no bread base, but equally delish.
 
I like my pizza all dressed - pepperoni, bacon, green peppers, mushroom, black olives with a thin crust.
I order a large one occasionally and cut it into 8 slices so that I can have over several weeks by freezing it.
 
I remember a place in Denver many years back. The first deep dish pizza I ever had...paradise.
 

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