How long do you take to choose your pizza topping 🍕?

@MellyMel22 I'm no fan of broccoli, but I like the rest of choices you've mentioned. 😌 And also green olives, esp if with fish toppings (tuna, anchovies)

@Elessar [i][c=BF0080]I won’t eat bricolli on pizza. You haven’t had brocolli rabe? I don’t eat meat, chic or fish. That’s prob why I’m limited in what I choose 😆[/c][/i]

@MellyMel22 Ohh, just googled them but yeah I'm no fan of those either 😅 I tend to be fussy with vegetables (and in general, outside of pizza, I prefer raw ones to cooked ones) but there's many non-meat/non-fish options I like as well - often involving mushrooms, radicchio, roasted peppers, roasted zucchini, roasted or fried eggplant, etc. 😌

@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]