Summer Pizza Thread

BBQ pizza is a winner.

Every year I get older find myself needing stuff hotter and hotter (spice-wise) and I don't understand it. Jalapenos and sriracha don't cut it for me anymore. Which sucks because I like the flavor of canned jalapenos over raw, but they aren't hot enough. Anyone else experiencing this as they age?

Don't you find yourself eating more and more things you "hated" as a kid? I tell my wife I got old people taste buds now. Those vinegary salads I despised as a kid I now will eat. And a whole bunch of other things. Remembering all the funky salads that showed up at extended family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
 
Key to a pizza, IMO. Well, sauce as well. Both can be deal breakers if bad. I want a little sweetness to my sauce instead of a paste.

Yep sauce is key as well. Also volume of sauce. I happen to like the Chicago style with lots of sauce on top. Wife doesn't like. I sauteed some spinach and garlic in olive oil and threw that on top also. Was great IMO. I have cooked some without any sauce. For the chicken bacon ranch I make I use alfredo sauce as the base.

I always buy fresh mushrooms and sautee them myself to put on pizza also.
 
Don't you find yourself eating more and more things you "hated" as a kid? I tell my wife I got old people taste buds now. Those vinegary salads I despised as a kid I now will eat. And a whole bunch of other things. Remembering all the funky salads that showed up at extended family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas.


Exactly. Funny you mention this. I just looked up a recipe for a Greek Salad.
 
Yep sauce is key as well. Also volume of sauce. I happen to like the Chicago style with lots of sauce on top. Wife doesn't like. I sauteed some spinach and garlic in olive oil and threw that on top also. Was great IMO. I have cooked some without any sauce. For the chicken bacon ranch I make I use alfredo sauce as the base.

I was going to add this point as well. I noticed the amount can really change the pizza. Not just the taste but the texture or how it holds together.
 
Taco pizza for me as a usual rule is a NO. On a very rare occasion if from the correct place I may choose to eat taco, like maybe once in a blue moon from Happy Joe's, but in general it's a NO as I see no need to. Otherwise, I'd just eat freaking tacos!
 
I was going to add this point as well. I noticed the amount can really change the pizza. Not just the taste but the texture or how it holds together.
I'll grab pizza slut in a pinch and their sauce ain't very good, but man, they have a system for churning consistent pies. The amount of sauce they put on them is just right and they (and Dominos) can crank and ungodly volume of pizzas. Now that I live out in the sticks, I'll get a pie from one of those places maybe once a month and the freaking large is often on sale for like $6 or $7 if you do carryout. It's cheaper than a lot of frozen pizzas now.
 
Taco pizza for me as a usual rule is a NO. On a very rare occasion if from the correct place I may choose to eat taco, like maybe once in a blue moon from Happy Joe's, but in general it's a NO as I see no need to. Otherwise, I'd just eat freaking tacos!

With all due respect, you are an idiot and your opinion is flat out wrong. Just wrong. Taco pizza is good, but there are only 3 places that know how to do it right. Happy Joes, Godfathers and Pizza Ranch. I've tried it at a lot of different places, but those Iowa centered chains are the only ones who know how to do it right. My bro used to work at a take and bake shop and he introduced a taco pizza there and it was damned legit, too, but the shop went under decades ago.
 
Did one with grilled NY strip thin sliced; sauteed green pepper, onion and mushrooms with some Worcestershire and olive oil; and then a thin coat of Heinz 57 on the dough/crust before putting the toppings on plus some whole milk mozzarella. That was for a great grandfather. I think he then put steak sauce on it when he ate it also. He loved it.
 
Taco pizza for me as a usual rule is a NO. On a very rare occasion if from the correct place I may choose to eat taco, like maybe once in a blue moon from Happy Joe's, but in general it's a NO as I see no need to. Otherwise, I'd just eat freaking tacos!

This is not specific to taco pizza...but Americans have gone a little bat shit with the combining foods and stacking stuff on top of other stuff just because it's there. Sometimes those mashups/hybrids/etc are cool, creative and go together magically. But far too often it's just become....let's see how much shit we can throw together and call it our "fill-in-the-blanks-crazy-burger".

As Jeff Goldblum said in Jurasic Park..."... they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could... that they didn't stop to think if they should."
 
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Don't you find yourself eating more and more things you "hated" as a kid? I tell my wife I got old people taste buds now. Those vinegary salads I despised as a kid I now will eat. And a whole bunch of other things. Remembering all the funky salads that showed up at extended family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I can't get enough of green olives now too and I wouldn't touch them as a kid. I buy the huge Costco jars of jalapeno and garlic stuffed olives and eat a bazillion at a time.
 
BBQ pizza is a winner.

Every year I get older find myself needing stuff hotter and hotter (spice-wise) and I don't understand it. Jalapenos and sriracha don't cut it for me anymore. Which sucks because I like the flavor of canned jalapenos over raw, but they aren't hot enough. Anyone else experiencing this as they age?

Yes, the loss is taste seems to affect me, as well. Im older than you, Fry, but I buy a jalapeno margarita that I ask for extremely spicey. The always ask if I want a habanero margarita, and I always say 'almost'.

My wife had thought she bought a jar of jalapenos, which are great on pizza, too, but she bought habanero instead, and they are great. I enjoy the heat for two days. :)
 
Did one with grilled NY strip thin sliced; sauteed green pepper, onion and mushrooms with some Worcestershire and olive oil; and then a thin coat of Heinz 57 on the dough/crust before putting the toppings on plus some whole milk mozzarella. That was for a great grandfather. I think he then put steak sauce on it when he ate it also. He loved it.

Where's that damn thumbs down button!!!

Did you make that concoction up yourself or modify a recipe. Not sure about the Heinz 57 as sauce. Wasn't it a little overbearing?
 
This is not specific to taco pizza...but Americans have gone a little bat shit with the combining foods and stacking stuff on top of other stuff just because it's there. Sometimes those mashups/hybrids/etc are cool, creative and go together magically. But far too often it's just become....let's see how much shit we can throw together and call it our "fill-in-the-blanks-crazy-burger".

As Jeff Goldblum said in Jurasic Park..."... they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could... that they didn't stop to think if they should."

You're just flat out wrong. I agree, the hipster movement has caused a horrific increase in nonsensical fusion cooking. But taco pizza predates this by decades. DECADES.

If you want to do a market check on taco pizza, you do this, pal. You roll into Godfathers down on Highway 1 in IC for lunch buffet someday. You watch when they bring that taco pizza out. You'll see a slew of out of shape old men hurdling chairs like OJ in that Hertz commercial trying to get up there to get a slice before it is gone. Same thing happened when I went to Pizza Ranch in Fort Dodge. There was actually a line forming at around the time they thought the taco pizza would be out. Taco pizza is amazing.
 
This is not specific to taco pizza...but Americans have gone a little bat shit with the combining foods and stacking stuff on top of other stuff just because it's there. Sometimes those mashups/hybrids/etc are cool, creative and go together magically. But far too often it's just become....let's see how much shit we can throw together and call it our "fill-in-the-blanks-crazy-burger".

As Jeff Goldblum said in Jurasic Park..."... they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could... that they didn't stop to think if they should."



I agree Drummer. The pizza's have gone way too rogue! I guess I'm more of a traditionalist. I might do a Mediterranean pizza on occasion but I have a hard time going against a marinara sauce. I even prefer that if I have chicken on a pie. It doesn't feel like pizza if have a white sauce or just some jacked up olive oil as the sauce base.
 
Yes, the loss is taste seems to affect me, as well. Im older than you, Fry, but I buy a jalapeno margarita that I ask for extremely spicey. The always ask if I want a habanero margarita, and I always say 'almost'.

My wife had thought she bought a jar of jalapenos, which are great on pizza, too, but she bought habanero instead, and they are great. I enjoy the heat for two days. :)
There's a lady in my office who immigrated here from Taiwan and I swear to god she could eat a ghost pepper like a jalapeno popper. During the holidays she makes the most awesome habanero pepper jelly I've ever had. Serves it over a block of cream cheese with crackers. Super sweet and wicked hot at the same time, with the cream cheese and cracker to chill the burn out just enough.
 
You're just flat out wrong. I agree, the hipster movement has caused a horrific increase in nonsensical fusion cooking. But taco pizza predates this by decades. DECADES.

If you want to do a market check on taco pizza, you do this, pal. You roll into Godfathers down on Highway 1 in IC for lunch buffet someday. You watch when they bring that taco pizza out. You'll see a slew of out of shape old men hurdling chairs like OJ in that Hertz commercial trying to get up there to get a slice before it is gone. Same thing happened when I went to Pizza Ranch in Fort Dodge. There was actually a line forming at around the time they thought the taco pizza would be out. Taco pizza is amazing.
It's a pizza crust with some weird cumin "paste" instead of sauce, a few crushed up government-issue generic Doritos, and 5 pounds of lettuce. It all falls on your lap, and the pizza lasts maybe 20 minutes before shit starts turning brown and shriveling up. Taco pizza can go to hell.

Also, out of shape old men love raw ground beef balls, black licorice, and liver & onions. Not a good comparison.
 

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