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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is your favourite kind of pizza? I like the Parisian one. Bechamel sauce, spinach, diced
chicken, mozzarella and a little paprika. We get it frozen on a thin crust.
Charlemagne
(576 posts)Has a pizza with wheat crust, feta cheese, and those big thin tomato slices. Oh I die for it, die I tell you.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Margherita.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Thin crust, olive oil, salt, tomato sauce, fresh basil and fresh mozzarella ... Nothing better.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)So I've heard anyway.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)(Rest In Slices)
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)It does not matter if it's thick crust or thin or sicilian style or Chicago or New York.
If someone else is buying I will eat anything on a pizza but I nearly always order PXC for me.
All I ask is that it does not come from Dominos, Pizza Hut or Papa John.
This past thanksgiving I had the good fortune of being able to visit Chicago for a few hours and had a deep dish from Gino's East. Dayyyyyyyyyyum! That was an awesome pizza.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)I haven't eaten it in years, but I guess they totally re-vamped their pizza fairly recently. Folks who have had it told me the thin crust is actually fairly good. Around here, the chains are pretty much it for pizza. There is an independent restaurant, but truth be told, they're not a whole lot different than the chains. The only really good pizza in town comes from the two Greek restaurants. I usually just make my own.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Access to a good pizza delivery joint should be an unalienable right.
I have had the "new and improved" Dominos and I wasn't impressed (but I will admit to an incredible bias against them to begin with so it may just be that nothing they could do would make me happy)
It really sucks that the independent in your area doesn't do it right. I got INCREDIBLY lucky when a place opened up down the street from my house. We live in an area that is serviced by Pizza Hut and a couple other local independents but I was never excited by the local indies and refused to call PH...and then this place called Bronx pizza took over an abandoned storefront and started papering the neighborhood with flyers and coupons and I KNEW I had found a friend when I called for delivery and the guy on the phone says "Tanks fa callin', whatchooz want on ya pie?"
We also have fun making our own (and did so a lot more before Bronx moved in lol)...our local grocery store makes raw pizza dough in their bakery and it's really good but I am still looking for a good sauce recipe...I've tried several of the jarred ones but they are usually too bland or too sweet and I'm not much of a cook to make sauce from scratch but I'm willing to try.
(In my youth I delivered pizza for several chains including Dominos and some locals and sometimes when deliveries were slow I worked on the line so I can assemble a pizza like a champ but I just don't get the hang of creating sauce that works).
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)I grew up in Chicago, where even the worst independent joint was better than anything here--including the two Greek restaurants, which put out very good pizza. At least the Greek pizzas aren't bland like all the others, including the independents, which are the worst, unfortunately. That's why I don't care for them. They do a good job with the crust, but it's like they just dumped a can of tomato sauce on it. Blech. If you HAVE to put half a shaker of chilli peppers on it to make it taste like something, it's not good pizza in my book.
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)I had one tonight. Domoinos is much better than the bland pizzas they popped out in the 90s.
Also positive: Their breadsticks. Tasty and a bargain at $3.99
Negative: I hate the $1.99 delivery fee.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Been making it fairly often the past few years. Never get sick of it.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)extra sauce & extra cheese, on thin crust - kind of like a big nacho.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)No, wait - that's the one I DON'T want.
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)No, it aint about demographics, I mean the kind without tomato sauce. It's mozzerella, ricotta, with squid, shrimp, with a white wine sauce.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Joy of Cooking pizza dough - retard the rise in the fridge.
Topping - whatever I come up with.
Cook in a 500 degree gas convection oven on a 3/4 inch pizza stone.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)spinach, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, black olives, maybe a little Feta
2nd best, a B/W -- white cheeze pizza with black olives
Used to get those when I lived across the street and down the block a little from one of the very first Pizza Outlets.
I loved Hungry Howie's veggie special with garlic butter and poppyseed crust, but they quit using poppyseed -- heartbreaking.
We have a Mellow Mushroom here in town, but their menu's not what I remember from other MM's I liked. Vegetarian options are somewhat out of fashion, apparently.
emilyg
(22,742 posts)light onions and ham.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)in beautiful NW Portland Oregon.
Any type they have on hand at the moment. Truly exceptional.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Spicy tomatillo sauce topped with roasted poblano peppers, pan-fried garlic and feta cheese
http://starpizza.net/norfolk-menu
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The wild mushroom/walnut pesto pizza at CPK is fantastic.
There's a local chain called Punch here in the Twin Cities that uses an 850 degree brick oven that makes a damn fine pie - I like salami w/mushrooms.
But the King of all Pizzas is the Lombardi's special, now only available in NYC. I ate it regularly when working in Philly in 2000-01 when there was still a Lombardi's there. The Alpha and Omega of pizza.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Simple dough, bread flour, yeast, water, olive oil, salt and a bit of honey. Let it rise, then flatten it out onto the pizza pan and bake at 425 for 8 minutes or so. Then top with, pizza sauce, Trader Joe's is good, mozzarella, mushrooms, jalapenos, onions, roasted garlic and black olives, bake at 425 until bubbly delicious. Serve with a nice bottle of red.