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Salvatore

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #25 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:00:13 pm »


but seriously, Pizza? Norway?  what's wrong with half a barbecued reindeer?

Reindeer pizza. Inari, Finland.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #26 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:03:06 pm »
Where's the reindeer?

Looks like   :o pineapple!
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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #27 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:07:32 pm »
Where's the reindeer?

Looks like   :o pineapple!
The dark red bits. There's a concentration near the fork.

The bits that look like pineapple are in fact pineapple.
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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #28 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:11:12 pm »
Where's the reindeer?

Looks like   :o pineapple!
The dark red bits. There's a concentration near the fork.

The bits that look like pineapple are in fact pineapple.

pineapple, pizza  :sick:
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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #29 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:23:27 pm »
Apple, Camenbert, Lardons and Black Pudding. An odd combination perhaps, but you'll encounter it in Mortagne au Perche on the Semaine Federale I'm sure.

http://toquedechoc.com/2015/09/pizza-rustique-au-camembert-pommes-et-boudin-noir/

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #30 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:46:00 pm »
Vegan cheese that doesn't taste like embalming fluid mixed with oven cleaner would be a start.

Suddenly the reason for a *fantasy* pizza thread makes sense.

IME the thermal properties of vegan cheese make it better suited to the manufacture of head gaskets than pizza.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #31 on: 07 March, 2017, 10:50:45 pm »
Vegan cheese that doesn't taste like embalming fluid mixed with oven cleaner would be a start.
*Keeps thinking of this post and giggling*
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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #32 on: 07 March, 2017, 11:25:00 pm »
Apple, Camenbert, Lardons and Black Pudding. An odd combination perhaps, but you'll encounter it in Mortagne au Perche on the Semaine Federale I'm sure.

http://toquedechoc.com/2015/09/pizza-rustique-au-camembert-pommes-et-boudin-noir/

now you're talking.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #33 on: 08 March, 2017, 07:27:54 am »
I like a tomato and mozzarella pizza and spelt dough. Crispy and just nearly burnt on the edges and bottom. No meat, no pineapple.



If you're in Naples.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #34 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:05:14 am »
Vegan cheese that doesn't taste like embalming fluid mixed with oven cleaner would be a start.
*Keeps thinking of this post and giggling*
 :D
Makes you wonder why anyone would inflict veganism on themself....  ::-)

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #35 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:15:23 am »
Just caught up with this thread and now I want pizza for breakfast.

Damn you lot!  ;D
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #36 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:19:16 am »
I must confess I do like a deep dish pizza ala Pizza Hut. It is however a completely different beast to proper pizza but can be appreciated in its own right.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #37 on: 08 March, 2017, 10:07:46 am »
The desire for proper pizza has led to plans to build a wood-fired oven in the garden. It might be frivolous for two people but I really am partial to a decent pizza...

Oh yeah. Anchovies, tinned tuna and olives.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #38 on: 08 March, 2017, 10:26:12 am »
My friend who has his own engineering business (welding and general metal work for agriculture and housing) built himself a wood fired pizza oven a couple of years ago. Its brilliant, cooks a pizza in about 2 minutes. We always look forward to their pizza parties where his partner who is fantastic at bread makes the dough and you role your own out and select your own toppings.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #39 on: 08 March, 2017, 02:14:03 pm »
Vegan cheese that doesn't taste like embalming fluid mixed with oven cleaner would be a start.
*Keeps thinking of this post and giggling*
 :D
Makes you wonder why anyone would inflict veganism on themself....  ::-)

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #40 on: 08 March, 2017, 05:04:16 pm »
Now that I no longer have to deal with landlords, a proper pizza oven is on my garden wish-list. OTOH my OH has a long list of other jobs for house and garden that take priority - apparently she rates warmth, waterproofing, and structural soundness over proper pizza on demand...

Also, there's nothing wrong with pineapple on pizza. I wouldn't put it on a classic Neapolitan-style base, but ham and pineapple is a good sweet-salty combo and I won't be told otherwise.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #41 on: 08 March, 2017, 05:07:36 pm »
Pineapple is fine but chicken on pizza now that's an abomination.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #42 on: 08 March, 2017, 06:16:21 pm »
My friend who has his own engineering business (welding and general metal work for agriculture and housing) built himself a wood fired pizza oven a couple of years ago. Its brilliant, cooks a pizza in about 2 minutes. We always look forward to their pizza parties where his partner who is fantastic at bread makes the dough and you role your own out and select your own toppings.

I built one 3 or 4 years ago. It is great, but it doesn't get used quite as much these days as we are trying to cut cheese out of our diets to a large degree.

However, I'm in agreement with Ian on this. Less is more, and you'd be surprised just how little cheese you actually need on a pizza for the perfect balance of crust, tomato and cheese.

Lots of cheese on a pizza is, in itself, a crime against pizza.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #43 on: 08 March, 2017, 08:00:30 pm »
Pineapple is fine but chicken on pizza now that's an abomination.

Agreed!
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ian

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #44 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:53:35 pm »
Yep, a sprinkle of cheese is all it needs, a pizza doesn't need to look like the surface of Io or a teenager's face.

The downside of domestic pizza is that kitchen ovens simply don't get hot enough. You need a proper pizza oven or an inadequately cooled nuclear reactor.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #45 on: 08 March, 2017, 10:25:59 pm »
All the cheese. Some vegetables are ok, but they tend to take up space that could be otherwise occupied by cheese.

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #46 on: 09 March, 2017, 02:23:29 pm »
I have a no list, no goats cheese, no chicken. Other than that I'm pretty happy with almost any pizza. I'm as happy with a Hawaiian as I am with traditional wood fired artisan jobbie. I used to laugh at the people who ordered rocket on their pizzas until I ordered one by mistake in Milan and enjoyed it. I grew up eating those strange pizzas from supermarkets that are covered in cheddar and cling filmed to polystyrene disks, and even enjoy them

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #47 on: 09 March, 2017, 03:16:43 pm »
You'd think an entirely robotic boy like me would like synthetic pizza. Yet I don't.

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Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #48 on: 10 March, 2017, 01:28:29 pm »
...traditional wood fired artisan jobbie...

I'm not sure I like the sound of that  :P

Re: The fantasy pizza thread
« Reply #49 on: 12 March, 2017, 12:57:41 pm »
Well, against my wishes, and by dint of having to take my children to a birthday party, I find myself in a 'Pizza Express' whilst hungry.

Fantasy pizza it ain't. It's the pizza equivalent of a 'Harvester' restaurant ie.only to be given custom if either completely desperate or completely bereft of any sort of discerning palate.

I ordered a Buffalo Romana....essentially a margarita with proper cheese. £13! Thirteen fucking quid!  For something only marginally better than their piss poor frozen supermarket offerings.

The only consolation is that I am downstairs and the children's party is upstairs.