Pizza toppings

[ChrisGreaves]

So, like, well, you know, I'm now heavily⁽¹⁾ into making my own pizza.
Mix and roll the dough (I daren't toss it until I've cleaned the kitchen floor), onto the greased pizza-tray,

• smeared with crushed tomato paste,
• shower of oregano flakes,
• layer of pepperoni,
• chopped onions,
• mushrooms,
• green peppers,
• red peppers,
• yellow peppers,
• crushed almonds,
• garlic salt,
• pineapple cubes,

you know, the usual.

Topped for the last 4 minutes with a handful, or two, of grated Mozzarella or, on weekends, Swiss.

But it can all get so boring after a while.

So I'm asking:
What meats besides pepperoni have you successfully put on a pizza:
Bacon (sure)
Kolbassa?
Italian sausage?
???

⁽¹⁾ 164 lbs this morning ...

[Timelord]

Hot sausage (finding hot sausage is difficult here, but when I find it)
Chicken (I was not a fan, but it went over well with others)
Ham

[ChrisGreaves]

Hot sausage (finding hot sausage is difficult here, but when I find it)
Chicken (I was not a fan, but it went over well with others)
Ham

To me all "foreign" sausage is Hot sausage, i.e. anything that isn't a traditional breakfast sausage.
hence Pepperoni is a hot sausage.
The local Bruno's sells spicy Italian Sausage (which I gently cook then crumble the cooked meat sans fat onto the pizza.

But tell me more about chicken. Do you pre-cook it before dropping it on the pizza, and if so how? grill? Boil? Fry?

Ditto ham. I guess I cut a smoked ham into 1 centimeter cubes?

[Timelord]

The chicken I bake in the oven and then put on the pizza in slices, about the same thickness as pepperoni. Same with the ham, sliced, not cubed. Always pre-cooked.

[BobH]

Ham
Bacon
Chorizo

[ChrisGreaves]

The chicken I bake in the oven and then put on the pizza in slices, about the same thickness as pepperoni. Same with the ham, sliced, not cubed. Always pre-cooked.

Thanks, Oh Time Lord!
I'm off to Bruno's to buy an onion.
Then Chicken-Pizza tonight ....

[ChrisGreaves]

Ham
Bacon
Chorizo

Ham and bacon I know; as my father used to say "Good Christian⁽¹⁾ Foods", but "Chorizo"?

Wikipedia tells me "Chorizo can be a fresh sausage, in which case it must be cooked before eating. In Europe, it is more frequently a fermented, cured, smoked sausage" so I'm guessing that almost any smoked sausage from Bruno's would fit the bill there.

And that Pepperoni happened to be the one smoked sausage that caught the N.Amer fancy, way back when ...

⁽¹⁾ He also used to mutter specifics about Christian denominations other than CoE⁽²⁾, but I have quite happily learned to avoid such distinctions and am known in local circles as "The Human Garbage Can" in most of the local eateries ...

⁽²⁾ Not to mention people of countries outside the boundaries of central Lancashire.

[BobH]

Chorizo might just be a Latinized sausage - well known in the Hispanic community here.

[ChrisGreaves]

Chorizo might just be a Latinized sausage - well known in the Hispanic community here.

I doughn't know about that.
I do like this:
This crazy guy tosses pizza dough like nobody you've ever seen. Employed by Pizza Pizza Toronto

[Cellmate]

[*]crushed almonds,

⁽¹⁾ 164 lbs this morning ...

Crushed almonds???!!??!?!???!!?

wot, you a hippie?

Cellmate

[Cellmate]

then again, who am I to talk! I smoked a brisket yesterday!

Cellmate

[ChrisGreaves]

Crushed almonds???!!??!?!???!!? wot, you a hippie?

OK Cellmate
You got me stumped?
What's a hippie got to do with crushed almonds?
And no, I never was a hippie, but have been interested in back-to-basics for 40 years.

Crushed almonds because a friend spilled a bag of almonds on her pristine polished floor, and was going to chuck them out.
So I brought them home, rinsed the non-existent dust off them and air-dried them.

Now I don't like eating nuts, but couldn't bear to toss them out, so I ground them in my little mini-chopper and got a jar-full.
I've been sprinkling them on pizzas on the grounds that I can't really taste them, what with all the other stuff.

[Cellmate]

Crushed almonds???!!??!?!???!!? wot, you a hippie?

OK Cellmate
You got me stumped?
What's a hippie got to do with crushed almonds?
quote]
Sorry, I was just being silly, having lived the last 30+ years in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts" the idea of (any) nuts on a pizza struck me as just weird. Perhaps not so much, I mean pine nuts in pesto is ok, right?

I do hope I didn't offend. As I said, I was just being silly.

Cellmate

[BobH]

then again, who am I to talk! I smoked a brisket yesterday!

Cellmate

How'd you light it?

[ChrisGreaves]

I smoked a brisket yesterday!

How'd you light it?:flee:

Briskly?

[ChrisGreaves]

..., having lived the last 30+ years in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"

OK.
So are you close to Toronto airport, or on the other side of Yonge Street?

[Cellmate]

..., having lived the last 30+ years in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"

OK.
So are you close to Toronto airport, or on the other side of Yonge Street?

(Not that I get that, really) No, tha Land of Fruits & Nuts I'm speaking of is California...

Cellmate

[ChrisGreaves]

Chorizo

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[BobH]

Hope you enjoy the chorizo!

[ChrisGreaves]

So, like, well, you know, I'm now heavily⁽¹⁾ into making my own pizza.

(Later)
I can recognize a challenge when i see one!