PIZZA

[seemunkee]

OH Man I just made some great pizza. I got a sourdough starter going last weekend and made the dough yesterday. Let it rise slowly in the fridge and it was so soft and elastic I only had to spin it once. Fire roasted crush tomatoes with a few spices, fresh mozzarella and it was heaven. Still not up to NYC standards but its getting there. When I mentioned plans for a woodburning oven my wife didn't bat an eye.

One day I will reach Pizza Nirvana.

So what and where is your favorite pizza?

[lost-in-nj]

1. I have been on a diet

I have not had pizza in over a year

I WOULD EAT IT ALL

RIGHT HERE
RIGHT NOW!!!

PEPPERONI
SAUSAGE
PEPPERS
ONIONS
fuck


lost

[seemunkee]

3. I have never had that last item on a pizza before

That I know of.

[opiate69]

2. Hmm.. hard to say what my favorite is, but..

I always loved the garlic pizza at the Pizza Palace in Jewitt City, Ct. Interestingly enough (to me at least) all the best pizza joints back home were owned by Greek families.

[hippywife]

4. Pizza in the Tulsa area sucks!

I miss the pizza back home in Ohio so bad!! We usually like mushrooms, onions, and banana peppers on ours, tho. Friday night around here is pizza night and I don't usually feel like cooking so it's just usually a Red Baron 4-cheese with the addition of the aforementioned toppings. Trust me, it's tons better than any pizza you can buy in town.

[seemunkee]

5. I weep for you

:cry: :cry: :cry:
You live in a pizza wasteland.

If you want to take the time this guys instructions on making dough are fantastic.
http://slice.seriouseats.com/jvpizza/

[hippywife]

6. I can make my own dough

I just choose not to cook that night. I really should, and plan to at some point in the future, start making the dough ahead like you did. Thanx for the link.

[conscious evolution]

7. I buy dough balls from a local pizza shop

MMMMMM!!

[SPKrazy]

11. Hideaway

rocks

[hippywife]

19. It's just okay.

I respectfully disagree. But I guess we all tend to best like what we grew up with.

[alphafemale]

14. OMG! Ohio Valley Area Pizza!

People that have never had it can never understand.

[harmonicon]

8. chicago

chicago-style pizza is totally different from other pizza..... man, I love it... from eduardo's or geno's .... hell, any place in chicago that goes through the trouble of having the shit on hand to make it does an ok job.

[Wapsie B]

15. Yes Eduardo's !

Their Spinach pizza is outta this world good.

[Lars39]

9. The best pizza I've ever had in my life was with a sourdough crust.

Drooling just thinking about it. :D

[soleft]

10. Brick oven, Auturos on Houston Street

[TreasonousBastard]

17. Been there-- good pizza. Not uber-gloppy like Ray's, but...

I still prefer Totonno's.

[Genevieve]

25. Yes. nt

[stuntcat]

12. thin tomato slices all over, a lot of fresh spinach, ricotta cheese

maybe a little other stuff-some black olive pieces or some onion, then some mozzarella to hold things in place.

I can't make my own crust though, I don't have the patience, I buy the thin Mama Maria's crusts. I make pizza like every week now!

[krispos42]

13. Pepe's Pizza, New Haven, CT

Anything else is inferior.


Well... the franchise they set up in Fairfield is pretty damn good, too.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Totonno's, in Coney Island. n/t

[soleft]

21. I'll have to check it out when weather warms up

Plus I'm moving out to Brooklyn in the spring, so I won't be far away.

[TreasonousBastard]

22. You could check out the two in Manhattan...

but I don't know if they're as good as Coney Island. Perfectly crisp and properly blackened crust with a sauce to die for. No slices-- gotta buy a whole pie, and you just might eat it all by yourself.

http://www.totonnos.com/Reviews.html

In Brooklyn you get attitude, too. The place was on a PBS pizza special a few years ago, and the owner was asked what his favorite was:

"I don't eat this stuff! I'm around it all day."

(Rumor has it that after makng a hundred pizzas, he's had enough and closes the shop for the day.)

[seemunkee]

24. Going there next time I'm up in the city.

If for no other reason than its the original(maybe)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Mmmm

Sounds yummy!

I wonder if you could make pizza in your fireplace...

[Auggie]

20. Long, cold fermentation of dough is the answer to great crust. You nailed it.

I add some whole wheat flour for added bite and cook on a pre-heated pizza stone in a convection oven set to 500 degrees. It's not as hot as a wood-burning oven but it's close.

[youthere]

23. I gotta'say...I'm not a huge pizza fan.

In my mind,pizza is in the same category as Ramen Noodles A.K.A. the food I ate way too much of in college because it was cheap and I was broke.
There used to be this place we ordered pizza from all the time, it was super cheap, super BAD pizza (like..two large pizzas for $4) because we always had coupons for it, and I think I pretty much lived on it for the better part of three years. Once I got out of college, I think I went about eight years before I could eat pizza again, and I still can't bring myself to truly "enjoy" pizza anymore. I just can't.