@Elessar yeah, I need to get back to powerlifting so I can eat all the crap I want.

@basilfawlty89 MeToo.

@Fishy * Italian govt has just put you on a permanent blacklist *

@Elessar [i][c=BF0080]I’d try that stuff too. I do get a pesto veggie pizza every so often. It’s pretty good, but I only can handle it once in awhile. I thought broccoli rabe would be big by you! I don’t fully cook it, but obviously it’s not something you eat raw. But I love raw peppers and mushrooms and much more. Most veggies I love.. [/c][/i]

@MellyMel22 I always have (in summer*) some fresh made pesto at home that I will occasionally put on top of margherita (or even better, margherita w/ cherry tomatoes, 😌 There's also a local mediterranean forest not too far from here where you can collect pinecones and thus have 100% fresh pinenuts, which go great with basil grown at home.

I think my favourite vegetables in absolute are tomatoes 🍅 and even those, if grown at home, are 10x better than even the best ones you could find on the market. And you have plenty of ways to put them on pizza: raw, raw with garlic, slightly cooked with or without garlic, crisped in the oven, dried, semi-dried ... 😌

@Elessar [i][c=BF0080]Tomato and basil/pesto go down great together. I sissy’s too my pesto pasta with cut baby tomatoes and more basil 😆 I’m obsessed w/basil. My younger kids eat it right off my plants. I wish we had somewhere that we could get pine nuts. I’d love to do that. I always buy so many dinky bags or jars of pine nuts when I make pesto or pignoli cookies b/c that’s all they have here. I also like toasted pignoli nuts in plain linguini w/sautéed garlic and mushrooms. Sometimes I’ll add roasted peppers or sun dried tomatoes.

I love tomatoes too. My kids will sit and eat a little tiny bowl of them and ask for more. I have sauce many times a week, even off it’s just me. Prob why I have so many acid issues 😆 A dr told me I might wanna cut things like tomatoes and I said, yeah that’s not gonna happen.. I can only grow them here when it’s warm, but I do diff types every year and you’re right- home grown are way better. When I make pasta salads people always comment on them being so sweet and ask what type they are. I use almost all of my home grown veggies in my pasta salads. Bit tomatoes are used the most here. Since I have to use pots to grow them, I mostly stick w/the baby varieties and everyone pops them off and eats them, but there’s always so many so it’s okay. [/c][/i]

@SW-User Too many choices for me to have a single, stable one

@Elessar mm i tend to have certain favorites and varíe from them but not i don't give importance to that. 😁

@Elessar Haha, there was also pizza called Gargano in my most favorite restaurant but they drastically reduced the options. It had pepperoni, oregano, fresh tomatoes and cheese. And a long long time ago there was also Mexicana with chili beans.
When I think about it, Margherita could be great too but unfortunately it isn't so I prefer to not risk it. I only liked the home made Margherita so far.

@CrazyMusicLover Yeah it sounds good! 😌

Homemade margherita is the best

Or if you happen to pass by Naples, down there they make it impossible to beat

Look how it makes mine pale, in comparison 😆

@Elessar Both look delicious! 🥴

@SW-User The owner of the place where I've got those consistently finishes in the top-10 of the World Pizza Championship any single year he participates so trust me when I say they're good 😜 and you don't score anywhere that high with potted / industrial-grade ingredients

@Elessar wow there is a world pizza championship!?!

@SW-User https://campionatomondialedellapizza.it/2022-event/competitions?lang=eng

@SunshineGirl 100% of the times I do that they recommend me something absurd and I also have to deal with the problem of telling them "no thank you, I'm still undecided" 🥴

@Elessar I once went alone to a Lebanese restaurant with a £20 meal allowance from work. I had no idea about the cuisine and what to choose, so I asked the waiter to spend my £20 and educate me. Couldn't sleep for two days afterwards (it was so spicy) but I had a great evening 🙂

@SunshineGirl I've always been unlucky with this approach OR by tastebuds are just little b*tches (more likely the second)

@Elessar I want all of them on the same pizza and I want extra sauce. I wanna be swimming in that shit

@deadgerbil Cholesterol be like:

@Elessar I'm an American. I have an excuse

@Torsten But there's so much to try!

@V00doo @HannibalAteMeOut actually one of the pizza places here that's a franchise does a Mediterranean pizza, which is sun-dried tomatoes, basil pesto, feta and olives. Really nice.

@basilfawlty89 I'll go with fresh over sun-dried and ricottas over feta but yeah 😌

@Elessar sun-dried tomatoes impart a unique flavour though.

@InOtterWords I've been looking at this menu over and over since yesterday evening, went to sleep thinking of pizzas, and I'll have to order tonight but I'm not yet 100% sure on the choice

@Elessar think of your favourite 4 toppings and find the one that fits best.

I am visiting Italy in a few weeks 😁

@InOtterWords Problem is, I have like 16 first choice ingredients at the very least 😅

Aw, that's cool 😌 where, if I can ask? Cities or coastline?

@DDonde It's not bad, Calabrian spicy salami are pretty good, but I like to change every time. Also, for some reason I prefer spicy stuff in winter/spring/autumn than in summer 🤔

@Elessar I'm envious of the availability of your options

@DeluxedEdition Her father is concerning as well 🥴

@Elessar her father is the most disgusting pizza idk how people eat that shit 🤮

@DeluxedEdition Ya know, when your only quality is the sausage it's not that everyone will throw you away 😌

@Stereoguy Looks good, but I like change 😜But yeah, that's a good set of toppings