PrintFavourite Pizza toppings?
Two questions in one. Since the answers can differ. Question 1: If you were going to order a pizza right now for lunch today what would you get on it? Thin or thick crust? Question 2: What is on your ultimate dream pizza?
My recent pizza craving has been a simple one. Thin crust, a little red sauce, a mix of cheddar, mozza and goat cheese, and some thin slices of a nice spicy genoa salami. Mmm.
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31 Comments:
My boyfriend's family is from Chicago and they always eat pizza--now I'm addicted to it too, and would eat it every night of the week if I could. If I had to choose between thick and thin crust, it would definitely be thin. But on my dream pizza it'd be stuffed crust, with just a bit of mozzarella, a thin layer of sauce, and plenty of green pepper, red onions, tomato chunks, and fresh grated parmesan cheese. Yum.
luswim06 at 10:13AM on 01/03/08
Last night we made thin crust pizza, which provided a few leftover slices that will be my lunch today: Home canned rosemary pizza sauce, kalamata olives, grape tomatoes, capicola, chevre & some mozzarella.
My dream pizza is basically this, except grilled...not baked in the oven. It was 10 below zero last night, so I did not opt to fire up the grill!
2qrs at 10:35AM on 01/03/08
Thin crust white pizza garlic spinach kalamata olives, feta if they have it.
JerzeeTomato at 10:44AM on 01/03/08
Thin crust, caramelized onions, sun dried tomatoes, gorgonzola.
ride&cook at 10:57AM on 01/03/08
Thin crust. Just cheese, onions and sausage on top.
jasonbrink at 11:17AM on 01/03/08
Our family stand-by is pepperoni and black olives.
jpolk at 11:31AM on 01/03/08
Right now: Thin crust, feta cheese, balsamic onions, sun-dried tomatoes, greek olives and anchovies (I know, it's an aquired taste)
Dream: Paper-thing crust, baked in a pizza oven (stone and wood construction), slightly burnt on the bottom, with the same toppings.
Both - loaded with Cossetta's marinara sauce. It can't be beat!
Traveller at 11:42AM on 01/03/08
All of the above sound amazing, and would be even better with artichoke hearts!
LiveToEat at 11:57AM on 01/03/08
Thin crust with medium layer of sauce, pepperoni, green chile and mozzarella cheese with a sprinkling of fresh parmesan. The chile and pepperoni combo is a match made in culinary heaven!
hatlady at 11:59AM on 01/03/08
Please! Pizza is like sex -- even when it isn't that great, it's still pretty good! Throw anything on it and I'm there. Prefer thin crust, but will happily devour a thick crust too. Time for lunch! :)
CookiePie at 12:10PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust with a little red sauce, pancetta and capers. Maybe a little bit of red onions.
pickle at 12:20PM on 01/03/08
my go to is thin hand tossed w/ red sauce, sausage, onion and mushroom
Alm25 at 12:22PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust, light on the red sauce, mozzerella, pepperoni and chopped pepperocinnis. Please have the crust slightly blistered and charred. Thanks!
Colorado Jim at 12:33PM on 01/03/08
There are so many pizza styles I love, but to answer your question specifically:
I'd order a pepperoni and fresh garlic thin crust from our locally owned and operated pizza joint.
Dream pizza? I'm not really sure, actually. I really love fresh garlic on pizza, however. Roasted garlic, too. How about something like roasted vegetables--onion, zucchini, red pepper, mushrooms, garlic--with several cheeses. Mozzarella, Parmesan, a sprinkling of feta or chevre. Sun-dried tomatoes. Walnuts. That'd work for me.
I also run a Pizza Night column on my food blog, if anyone is interested...
Kelly
flavor a deux
Kelly Spitzer at 12:56PM on 01/03/08
I'm a simple girl ... pizza toppings are like sauce on pasta to me. It's about the bread so less is more. One or two items tops.
Thin, crispy crust with an uncooked sauce of crushed San Marzano tomatoes, seasoned with salt. When tomatoes are back in season, we'll do it with some good heirloom tomatoes instead of canned. A sprinkling of basil, some mozzarella -- fresh or aged or sometimes both -- a splash of good olive oil. In the wood-fired oven for 90 seconds or so and then another sprinkling of fresh basil. It's heavenly.
We have a wood-fired oven in our yard and my husband makes pizzas like this about once a week.
kjgibson at 1:31PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust. Sausage and onion.
Adam Kuban at 1:41PM on 01/03/08
My favorite is a simple cheese pizza -- ultra thin, crisp crust with amazing sauce and really good cheese. I know I'll be flamed, but I don't care for the Grimaldi's type pizza, mainly because I don't much care for fresh or sliced mozarella on my pizza. I prefer shredded dry mozarella, along with maybe some fontina, asiago, etc. But I do like the wood- or coal-burning oven flavor!
Anyway, if I have a topping, I usually only want one at a time. Too much stuff interferes with the good base flavors, IMHO. Sliced meatballs, OR fresh mushrooms, OR chopped fresh mushrooms... you get the idea.
When the urge strikes me, I also love one coated with a good garlicky pesto instead of sauce, some good cheese (of course), and chopped artichoke hearts. Actually, that sounds really good right now, and it's not even noon yet!
Always, no matter what the type, with lots of red pepper flakes. Sometimes with a shake of oregano.
LoCo at 1:59PM on 01/03/08
Ooops. That wasn't supposed to say mushrooms twice... it was "chopped fresh TOMATOES" -- duh. I must be hungry...
LoCo at 2:01PM on 01/03/08
thin crust with fresh mozzarella, artichokes, and good olives.
airstrikemike at 2:08PM on 01/03/08
Extra thin crust, anchovies, more anchovies, green peppers and mushrooms. NO tomato sauce, however. I spread the dough with lots of olive oil and sprinkle it with fresh chopped garlic. For dessert it's half a bottle of Maalox.
RichardCrystal at 2:43PM on 01/03/08
Bacon, green peppers, onions or Pepperoncini, olives and sausage or Ricotta, basil and sliced tomato, geez anything is fair game!!!
bmfesq at 2:48PM on 01/03/08
Ooops! I forgot the fresh chopped tomatoes!!!!
RichardCrystal at 2:52PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust white pizza---fresh mozz, ricotta & fresh spinach...served piping hot, please!
JEP at 4:05PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust. I like lots of toppings, especially combination.
My ideal pizza has a light amount of sauce, mozzarella cheese, sauteed onions (yellow and green) and garlic, olives, artichokes and Italian sausage.
misseditor at 4:23PM on 01/03/08
Thin crust, with pineapple, green peppers and mushrooms. This is my all-time favorite combo and I've turned more people onto it than you'd think! Don't knock it till you've tried it. ;)
sheeats at 4:43PM on 01/03/08
sheeats - that is my mom's absolutely favourite too!
everyone else - i am so hungry now!
lexophile at 4:51PM on 01/03/08
The idiosyncratic St. Louis pizza from a chain called Imo's (Adam of slice.com is sitting on a piece I wrote about it; I'm sure he'll get it up sooner or later) is one of my choices, thin crust, cut in squares, an idiosyncratic local cheese called provel, with anchovies, mushrooms and onions. But right now I'm craving a thick-crust with red sauce, good mozzarella , just plain. Once in a while some bacon.
lemons at 6:13PM on 01/03/08
thin crust, with a nice bright sauce, good cheese but not too much so that it makes a congealed layer, fresh tomatoes and onion. yum!
whoa kjgibson, that sounds amazing! note: get wood-fired oven once I get a yard.
Littlebluesiren at 1:32AM on 01/04/08
1) thin crust > margherita
2) gorgonzola, porcini, thyme, caramelized onions
JWWWW at 8:29AM on 01/04/08
I'm such a plain person and usually will eat plain cheese pizza, but I do enjoy the following:
Margherita: mozzarella, tomatoes and basil
Pineapple
Mushrooms
And pizza topping dislikes: Spinach!! I HATE spinach in pizza. Gross.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 5:23PM on 01/04/08
I love extra thin crust (but not so thin that the toppings make it soggy) burnt a little on the bottom with a nice semolina dusting. Favorite topping combo would be black olives, mushrooms & anchovies (very little sauce.)
I am also thinking about what kind of pizza I am going to make tonight: I'm thinking whole wheat crust brushed with olive oil, topped with goat cheese, caramelized onion, roasted mushrooms and a light drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar. And maybe a small homemade dessert pizza on the side...maybe ricotta, Granny Smith apples baked with cinnamon & caramel sauce. MMM.
Tasty Morsel at 2:21PM on 01/18/08