Pizza!

[Úmarth]

Hmm I'm having pizza tonight.

Unfortunately it's just an oven pizza. Nice though.

 

[Panopticon]

This will help at college. Thanks Rhye.

 

[dionysos2048]

And if you can use Spanish (Iberico if you can find it) cured ham instead of prosciutto, then heaven is within reach, but only add it after the pizza is cooked when you serve it. Good chorizo is one of my favorite toppings as well.

 

[Rhye]

And if you can use Spanish (Iberico if you can find it) cured ham instead of prosciutto, then heaven is within reach, but only add it after the pizza is cooked when you serve it.

Jamon Iberico...

yeah, definitely to add after cooked, since it is a raw ham, such as Parma ham, San Daniele, etc.
It matches prefectly with mascarpone, otherwise with cherry tomatos and mozzarella di bufala

 

[Greeneyedzombie]

Thnx Rhye. I deffinatly going to try these out when I have an oven. Or make them at a friends place.

 

[Riker]

And if you can use Spanish (Iberico if you can find it) cured ham instead of prosciutto, then heaven is within reach, but only add it after the pizza is cooked when you serve it. Good chorizo is one of my favorite toppings as well.

chorizo is good in virtually every single plate a mortal can do

 

[Halk]

I've had pizza in various places in the world, and Italian pizza is definately unlike most other pizzas. If you look at Rhye's "don't" list, that's pretty much the problems, if you want to call them that, with other pizza.

I've only eaten pizza from restaurants in Italy, never from someone's home, so I can't say I'm an expert on it. But there's a distinct difference. Italian pizza has much less mass than other pizza. It's much thinner, and has more flavour. Other pizzas need to be cooked for longer, so they get more of a pie flavour.

I'm not saying that other "not real" pizzas are bad. I do like a thick pepperoni pizza, literally covered in meat, and thick with cheese. It's not very similar to proper pizza, but I do enjoy it. The Indian restaurant near me does a Chicken Tikka and Onion pizza, which is well, just nothing like Italian pizza. Delicious though.

When I get some time, I'll try cooking some myself, and see if it turns out anything decent.

 

[Hegix]

I'll probably be banned from updating RFC for saying this , but I don't like Italian pizza at all. There's just not enough stuff on it, at least not in the restaurant variety.
I much prefer the Swedish specialty Kebab pizza. Kebab meat, mushrooms, lettuce, fresh tomato, cucumber, feferoni peppers, garlic sauce and lots and lots of feta cheese. Now that's a pizza

 

[Talkie_Toaster]

I personally prefer thinner bases, the crunchier the better.

 

[Riker]

I'll probably be banned from updating RFC for saying this , but I don't like Italian pizza at all. There's just not enough stuff on it, at least not in the restaurant variety.
I much prefer the Swedish specialty Kebab pizza. Kebab meat, mushrooms, lettuce, fresh tomato, cucumber, feferoni peppers, garlic sauce and lots and lots of feta cheese. Now that's a pizza

I always said that non-Italians don't get the cooking and taste gene. Now I know I've been right

 

[Rhye]

I'll probably be banned from updating RFC for saying this , but I don't like Italian pizza at all. There's just not enough stuff on it, at least not in the restaurant variety.
I much prefer the Swedish specialty Kebab pizza. Kebab meat, mushrooms, lettuce, fresh tomato, cucumber, feferoni peppers, garlic sauce and lots and lots of feta cheese. Now that's a pizza

AAAAARGH!!! You'll get the plague back at full strength!!!

 

[dionysos2048]

I saw once a chocolate pizza with marshmallows as a topping in Scotland.
Another option was haggis... hopefully not on a chocolate pizza.

 

[Panopticon]

Scotland

That was the problem. Scotland's national delicacy is the deep-fried Mars bar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

I had a pizza for lunch today, I followed Rhye's rules on what toppings are allowed.

 

[kairob]

Haggis is really good though, all the juicy bits of a sheap tied up nicely in its own bladder, yum

mind you they do rubbish black pudding.

This is an interesting way to cook a pizza

In the east coast of Scotland they can be served with "Salt and Sauce" -- with the pizza smothered in brown sauce (seemingly a mixture of HP sauce and vinegar) before being folded in half.

This pizza is deep fried without batter, although another variation known as a "Pizza Crunch" consists of a large, battered slice of pizza deep fried, usually served with chips

 

[dionysos2048]

The worse I have possibly tried, again, was in Scotland and is the deep-fried pizza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_pizza
I can't believe I'd forgotten about that and the deep-fried mars bars... I've also seen in a fishie something called a kebab pizza which had no cheese, almost no tomato and a mountain of mutton meat.

I think all in all, Scottish food and the Scottish Premier League convinced me to leave to Spain...

 

[Tweedledum]

I made a Pavement Pizza the other day - main ingredients: beer, and lots of it...

 

[Rhye]

thread updated with new pictures and new forbidden ingredients

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Hey, I love pizza with kebab! Now I feel guilty when I'll eat it.

I looooove pizza with kebab, onion and bell pepper. It's just delicious. Also shrimp-clam-onion pizza is fabulous.

 

[Rhye]

I love kebab too. But I don't call it pizza, I call it kebab

 

[mitsho]

So Rhye, seeing that we all love pizza, but you have quite a long list of forbidden ingredients which I would say is the definition of "Italian true pizza", but all the other ingredients go as well, as pizza is truly more of a "world food" than an Italian one..

However, as you seem to be an expert and radical on Italian pizza, I wanted you to ask wether the following ingredients whcih I happen to like sometime on my pizza are oks or no-gos?

Corn - I absolutely adore it and have it wherever possible
Curry - Only on a really special one, probably shouldn't be, right?
Peppers - the vegetable I mean, not really something special. I see nothing wrong with it?
Mustard - We do just a little bit with the tomtato sauce in to make it more spicy. I absolutely like it, although I know it shouldn't belong in there...
Rucola - That is an Italian thing as far as I know, sometimes ago, it was put on everything...
Vegetables generally - like Aubergines (I think the americans call it egg-plant) ...?

And can we have a commentary on some - I thought so far as - really Italian flavours like

Quattro Stagioni,
Funghi,
Frutti di Mare,
Napoli or
Quattro Formaggio

which you don't mention in your post

And last but not least, do you consider a Calzone a pizza, or is it still something different like a Foccacia? (Oh, btw. I absolutely adore Foccacias [what's the correct plural here?].

a kind admirer

mick