Would you ever order a margherita pizza?

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My wife's favorite pizza ever is in central/south NJ called Federici's. They make extremely thin pizzas... the crust almost resembles a water cracker. One person can kill most of a whole large pie in one sitting.

Evan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link

hypno-pizza, would eat

erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link

is there really no sauce or anything between the cheese and crust, though?

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link

ogmor otm obv

Pizza with an egg on it is called "pizza fiorentina" where I've encountered* it in the uk btw

*eaten & enjoyed

The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link

i had a nice one recently with a hole cut in the middle of the pizza and the egg fried within

nxd, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link

Detroit-style pizza is built, from the bottom up, like so: crust -> toppings -> cheese -> sauce

erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link

That sauce-on-cheese pizza looks surprisingly good. Still feels wrong, though.

I like eggs a lot but I'm super fussy about what they're allowed to go with/touch on a plate. You could say I'm an... egg-regationist.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7VSB_7XgAUrq4F.jpg

emil.y, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link

The egg should be put in raw and baked with the rest of the pizza (or added halfway through), sticking a fried egg on a pizza is bullshit.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link

I'm a big fan of pizza bianca, which is really just a delicious big flat bread with olive oil, salt and rosemary. Was turned on to it by Sullivan Street Bakery, whose Jim Lahey offered this legendary recipe:

Jim Lahey’s Pizza Bianca
Sullivan Street Bakery

Makes two long pizzas

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon instant dry yeast
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 sprig fresh rosemary

1. Combine flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, sugar, and yeast in the bowl of an electric mixer, and slowly add 1 cup cold water. Mix on low speed until ingredients begin to combine, increase speed to medium-high, and continue to mix for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, elastic, and cleanly pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl.

2. Place dough in an oiled bowl, and allow to rest for 2 to 4 hours until it has doubled in size. Split the dough into halves, and form each into a log. Place each log on a generously floured surface, and allow it to rest until the formed dough doubles in size again, at least 1 hour.

3. Put dough on a lightly floured baker’s peel. Dimple dough by pressing it down with your fingertips. Work the dough outward toward the edges of the peel until you reach your desired size and thickness, about 1/4 inch. Drizzle with remaining olive oil, rosemary and sprinkle with remaining salt.

4. Place a baking stone, sometimes known as a pizza stone, in the oven. Set oven to broil, about 520 degrees. Slide pizza onto baking stone with the baker’s peel. Bake until the bubbles range from golden to deep brown in color, 10 to 12 minutes.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link

I had Detroit style...in Telluride. One of best pizzas I've ever had! Brown Dog pizza. Place has won national awards. Have no way to know if it's "true" Detroit style tho.
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0b/35/fb/6f/brown-dog-pizza.jpg

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link

Detroit making a mockery of 'toppings' quite frankly.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link

I am ambivalent about egg on normal pizza but what about

.. breakfast pizza?

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link

here is a breakfast pizza in its native habitat, the convenience store/gas station
https://www.caseys.com/menu/pizza/breakfast-pizza

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link

p sure pizza fiorentina is so named bcz the topping is basically eggs florentine (viz poached egg with spinach)

mark s, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link

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emil.y, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link

I think potatoes on pizza are pretty good, so I imagine breakfast pizza would make perfect sense.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link

breakfast pizza as i know and understand it:
https://tbox.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cerealpizza3-e1446580557504.jpg

mark s, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link

all pizza is breakfast pizza

The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link

no potatoes on any I've had

A thin layer of delicious cheese sauce covered with scrambled eggs, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, and your choice of smoked bacon crumbles, breakfast sausage, diced ham, or green pepper and onion.

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link

wins otm though, nothing like a leftover slice

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link

"breakfast pizza" -> omelette ingredients (egg, cheese, bacon/ham/sausage, onion, green pepper) on pizza crust

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, I have never been to Detroit, but the best pizzas I've ever had have all been Detroit style... VIA 313 and Jet Pizza here in Austin, Barry's Pizza down in Houston, BJ's Brewhouse has an interesting variant of it (round pan, an even thicker but airier crust) but since franchising their pizza is getting less and less delicious. And of course, the Little Caesar's Pan! Pan! pizza (now called Deep! Deep! I believe) which will destroy your guts if you do not have an iron constitution but is total sensory overload when done right.

erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link

Mashed potato pizza is pretty good.

sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link

all pizza is breakfast pizza

― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:13 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link

agreed, have had mashed potato pizza, approaches twice-baked potato in consistency/taste

mh, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link

Breakfast pizza = dicing up the leftover pizza and sauteing in a pan with eggs etc.

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link

interesting

Evan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link

bubble and squizza

mark s, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link

I moved back to Michigan this year and am eating cold leftover Detroit-style pizza as I read this thread. I really missed it and didn't appreciate as I should have when I used to live here.

The pacific northwest has fucking terrible pizza, like they heard a description of it from far away and tried to copy it and you might consider it to be good if you've never been anywhere else. In Michigan everyone does it slightly different and even the shittiest regional chains have better pizza than the default in Washington.

joygoat, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link

The one pizza I loved in Washington was this: https://fazzaris.com/shotsy/. It's got mustard sauce, mozzerella and swiss, polish sausage, onions, and sauerkraut which barely even feels like pizza but it's delicious.

joygoat, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link

What is pazzi really?

Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link

I hate deep dish, but Pequod's really is the best

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link

I ate at a Paulie Gee's on Sunday, however, and they have a blue cheese and mushroom pizza titled "Cream of Some Fungi" which is possibly the worst attempt at a funny name for any food ever. so basically wtf, chicago.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link

Paulie Gee's has a Chicago location?? I go to the one in Greenpoint BK

Evan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link

yep, we were at logan square

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link

"Cream of Some Fungi" has been in the childish joke lexicon forever so more wink-wink than failed attempt. but also failed attempt.

phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link

who's gotten they mouth on a mashed potato pizza before?

Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link

l: steak & french fry
r: mac & cheese

http://ot-foodspotting-production.s3.amazonaws.com/reviews/245170/thumb_600.jpg?1292124162

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link

There's some pretty good pizza places in Seattle these days but it was grim for a while - the local chain that would win Best Pizza in Seattle every year is just depressing.

JoeStork, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link

Once had a soft-shell crab pizza at now-infamous Comet Pizza & Ping Pong

http://https%3A//c1.staticflickr.com/3/2439/3607450180_47e00c9c29_b.jpg

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link

tbf for a long time I did parent a child who would only eat margherita, it was infuriating. He's grown out of it now.

― JimD, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Way to go, crushing a child's gentle spirit like this.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link

A white pie with shrimp, capers, and lemon is pretty delicious. I'm so hungry right now.

erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link

The pacific northwest has fucking terrible pizza, like they heard a description of it from far away and tried to copy it and you might consider it to be good if you've never been anywhere else.

there's a Chicago-style place in Seattle that operates in the back of a distillery now, but used to be by pre-order only & you had to pick it up in an empty parking lot when nobody was watching

shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link

Bacon and egg on pizza is pretty common here, its usually called an Aussie.

http://cdn2.aussietaste.recipes/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-Aussie-Egg-And-Bacon-Pizza-opt.jpg

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link

One of my favorite pizzas ever was an Alsatian-style tarte flambée at a hotel restaurantl I worked with. Uplands cheese, Neuske bacon, wood-fired.

http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/2013/01/20130109-236249-chicago-pizza-balsan-pizza-slice.jpg

Eazy, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link

re: Pacific NW:
https://www.sizzlepie.com/ <--- Went here last time I was in Oregon, and ate the hell out of "The Ol' Dirty" (Salami, Ricotta, Olive Oil and Pepperoncinis)

bernard snowy, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link


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