Likes: Pizza

Pizza is totally, hands down, my absolute favorite food.  Homemade, ordered out, ready made, store bought, I don't care.  I just LOVE pizza.

My #1 favorite is Vitale's Pizza in Allegan.  I love the bits of garlic in their sauce - the kind that sticks with you over night.  I prefer vegetables on my pizza - any and all of them - with less meat.  Jeremy is all about the meat.  Typically our toppings of choice are mushrooms, ham, pepperoni and onions - it's a good compromise.  Vitale's has the perfect pie, flavorful, fresh toppings, and they give plenty of them,  just enough cheese and you're not mopping up grease with napkins either.  The best part - to reheat is divine!  Just as good as the night before - maybe better!  YUM!

My #2 favorite is back home in Manistee at Big Al's.  I don't care what the place looks like or the motley crew behind the counter - their Chicago style pizza is THE ticket!  They also use fresh toppings, just the right amout of cheese, and you can ask for extra sauce and extra napkins!  This also reheats well.

We often buy a take-and-bake pizza from the grocery store deli that I like.  We generally stick with a 'Supreme' type toppings or, or, if we're lucky -  they have my ABSOLUTE favorite - BBQ Chicken Pizza!  Onions, Chicken, sweet BBQ sauce and cheese!  Really, it is delicious!  At least in my book.  Generally, one of these is a meal for us, I have never reheated.

I am a thinner crust pizza connoisseur.  I do not care for Pizza Hut's absorbent sponge they call Pan crust.  I do like their hand tossed pizza, though I feel they are a little shy with their toppings and for that price, I want some stuff on my pizza!  I have recently gone to the lunch buffett and I am happier with that.

I don't care much for a homemade pizza because the crust is generally too crisp for my liking or it's terribly soggy.  I also haven't found a sauce that I care for.   I have made a version of BBQ Chicken Pizza at home and it was rather tasty.  I would make it again.  If I could find a balance between crisp and sog, I'd make more at home.  I would love - love to make a Pizza Margherita.  Next on my list to try!

DiGiorno is my favorite for frozen.  I prefer the 'fresh' taste as opposed to the iced cardboard flavor most frozen pizzas can take on.  Cardboard is NOT one of my food groups. 

And last but, certainly not least - Little Caesar's and the $5 (or $5.55 in my area) hot and ready pizza!  Hot, delicious, and ready.  Perfect...until the next day.  I do not like their pizza as leftovers. 

Most expensive pizza I ever had was in Chicago, a little over a year ago now.  We were in the hotel and Jacob was asleep, we had no car to run out and room service had closed.  Jeremy called in a pizza from one of the numbers left on that table tent in the hotel room, 45 minutes later and the $35 medium pizza arrived.  We were so hungry, it didn't matter that the cheese was oozing everywhere and we each got one slice of pepperoni apiece.  The sauce had a little bite to it and though it curbed the hunger, it was so common, I can't even remember the name of the parlour that brought it!

Where is your favorite pizza and what toppings do you like?