Pizza Toppings: Simple/Elaborate, Traditional/Unusual

[Monica Bhide]

tomato, mozzarella and eggs, a la slkinsey .... more info please...

[Basilgirl]

Roast zucchini, onions, tomatoes, eggplant in the oven with olive oil, S&P, herbs. Provolone.

Artichoke hearts, capers, Kalamatas, crushed red pepper, fresh mozzarella, tomato. YUM.

Spinach & feta.

[Dave the Cook]

tomato, mozzarella and eggs, a la slkinsey .... more info please...

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I haven't tried it yet, but it's on the menu this week at the Dave's Short-Order Kitchen.

[KelMH]

Mint is always a nice contrast. Apples too.

[maggiethecat]

tomato, mozzarella and eggs, a la slkinsey .... more info please...

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I haven't tried it yet, but it's on the menu this week at the Dave's Short-Order Kitchen.

I'll be waiting for a complete report, please.

Hmm... add some pancetta or bacon, and I do believe you might have the world's most perfect breakfast.

[wawairis]

Hmm... add some pancetta or bacon, and I do believe you might have the world's most perfect breakfast.

I thought it had to be vegetarian toppings?

[tommy]

Artichoke hearts

YES YES YES!

it sounds silly, but i often top with roasted pepperoncini. i like the acidic bite. i'm a freak for acidity.

[maggiethecat]

Hmm... add some pancetta or bacon, and I do believe you might have the world's most perfect breakfast.

I thought it had to be vegetarian toppings?

Well yeah, you're right.

But bacon is a food category all by itself, necessary to long life, wisdom, and incredible physical beauty. Sometimes I plumb forget it's merely meat.

[slkinsey]

tomato, mozzarella and eggs, a la slkinsey .... more info please...

Make a regular tomato sauce/mozzarella pizza (going very light on the cheese), then carefully crack several eggs right on the crust right before you slide it onto the baking stone (you're going for maybe 1/2 of the pizza surface covered by egg). The eggs will "fry" right on the crust. Take it out of the oven when the yolks are still nice and runny. Sprinkle with minced parsley and drizzle with evoo. This recipe only works with a well-heated baking stone and a thin crust (otherwise, the heat doesn't come through to fry the eggs). I like to make this one with thinly sliced with home-roasted red peppers sparsely strewn across the top before adding the eggs.

Some other interesting vegetarian pizze: Make a regular tomato/mozzarella pizza (easy on the toppings as always) and then top the pizza out of the oven with a salad of mixed wild/bitter greens and thinly sliced red onion dressed with the very best evoo (I usually add a covering of prosciutto, but that isn't exactly vegetarian); fresh (not canned!) slices of artichoke sauteed in evoo until brown and crispy are delicious on a pizza with a little red onion; make a pizza crust with no tomato or mozzarella -- instead top the pizza liberally with greens you have blanched and sauteed in evoo with garlic and crushed red pepper... at the last minute, throw on some dollops of strachino cheese (tangy mild soft cheese from "tired cows"); and, there is always fresh (or even frozen) porcini mushrooms drizzled with the very best evoo and sprinkled with an interesting sea salt at the table.

[Basilgirl]

but i often top with roasted pepperoncini.  i like the acidic bite.  i'm a freak for acidity.

Hot pepper rings - you know, the pickled ones.

I don't think you sound silly Tommy.

[Suzanne F]

Artichoke hearts

YES YES YES!

Now you've inspired me. I have a few jars of artichoke paste -- mmm, use that instead of tomato, add artichoke hearts, herbs, cheese, maybe a few mushrooms for a white pizza. But I may have to wait a couple of days, since tonight is already stewed lamb with artichokes. Can't have too many artichokes, though, can you?

[wawairis]

Hmm... add some pancetta or bacon, and I do believe you might have the world's most perfect breakfast.

I thought it had to be vegetarian toppings?

Well yeah, you're right.

But bacon is a food category all by itself, necessary to long life, wisdom, and incredible physical beauty. Sometimes I plumb forget it's merely meat.

I understand and share your enthusiasm

[slkinsey]

Hmm... add some pancetta or bacon, and I do believe you might have the world's most perfect breakfast.

I thought it had to be vegetarian toppings?

Well yeah, you're right.

But bacon is a food category all by itself, necessary to long life, wisdom, and incredible physical beauty. Sometimes I plumb forget it's merely meat.

I understand and share your enthusiasm

No bacon. Guanciale.

[cbel964]

i make my own version of Thincrust Bobili pizza. My husband says it's better than any he has had in a restaurant.

I first brush the pizza base with olive oil... I next put a small amount of sauce...

I always use more than one kind of cheese. 3 preferably. Mozzarella, cheddar, and sometimes monteray jack..

I usually do a 'veggie' kind since I'm not find of meat on pizza.

I will use onions, mushrooms (which i chop up), and a red or orange pepper.

After assembling, I also grate on some Percorino, and lastly, add parsley, basil, crushed red pepper for some kick, and oregeno.

[Raynickben]

Fig paste and Goat cheese

[slkinsey]

Fig paste and Goat cheese

Yes. I forgot to mention that one. It's very un-traditional, but I do like a pizza with fig preserves, gorgonzola, ruccola and sea salt (the greens added off the heat). No pom/mozz on this one, of course.

[Alex]

Pesto, chopped sundried tomatoes, crumbled goat cheese, a very light sprinkling of hot pepper flakes.

Simpler is better, imho.

[=Mark]

Of course cheese and eggs aren't vegetarian either...

[Monica Bhide]

Actually I love to eat non vegetarian food. We are having company over and they do not eat meat.. eggs and cheese is okay.

[slkinsey]

Of course cheese and eggs aren't vegetarian either...

Well, if you really want to get technical, neither would anything with tomato... since a tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable.

With pizza, I think it is usual to suppose "lacto-ovo vegetarian." Of course, my idea of vegetarian is greens cooked with smoked ham hocks... but that is for another day.

[=Mark]

All fruits are vegetables but not all vegetables are fruits. The seed bearing bodies of the vegetable kingdom are botanically considered fruits. As far as I know I've not heard of a vegetarian denied fruits, unless they are also on Adkins. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash, olives and gourds are all fruits. Tubers (potatoes), Plant stalks (celery), and leaves (greens) are also vegetables but are not fruits.

Niether dairy products nor eggs are derived from plants, and are obviously not vegetables.

[wawairis]

Neither dairy products nor eggs are derived from plants, and are obviously not vegetables.

Uh Oh! You took him down the vegetarian road...

[mamster]

Broccoli rabe and gai lan are great on pizza.

[boaziko]

Hope I'm not too late (if so it would be for the records)

1. Grilled eggplantes, feta, black olives, red onion.

2. On ready baked "empty" pizza doh,lots of arugula, EVOO, parmeggian shavings

3. Mozzerela + pesto sauce

Happy dinner!

Boaziko

[Devout Salumarian]

Last night's grilled pizza was topped with feta, kalamata olives, caramelized onions and a half handful of pine nuts and Parmaggiano Reggiano.

I'm not veg but my lady is so I know what you are going through as far as hitting the veggie wall goes.