Euro Pizza!

Hey Everyone!

We are re-igniting our blog, and morphing it into a food blog.  We love hearing your thoughts, opinions, and stories so feel free to comment away!

To start, I am going to summarize our pizza pictures and let you know where they are from and any insteresting tid bits that should accompany them... Enjoy!  Hope this encourages you to be adventurous with your pizza creations!

#1.  Pizza appetizer from Torino, Italy.  Roasted pizza crust, with fresh deliciously ripe tomatoes.  In the centre is a milky type of cheese that was wrapped with green strying which you can see on the upper piece of cheese.  Oh and don't forget the abundance of basil scattered all over the dish.  Refreshing and simple.

#2.  Pizza in Torino, Italy.

#3.  Pizza from a sit down Pizzaria resaturant, house pizza = cheese pizza, huge crust, huge piece, and delicious.

#4.  Pizza from the Milan Subway station.  Large thick slices of mozzarella on the left pizza, and italian sausage on the right hand pizza slice.

#5a.  Cousin Giovanni and his Egyptian Pizza Maker Friend in Milan.  Pizza dough and tomato's were put in the oven to cook prior to placing the slices of cheese on, and then it heads back into the oven to melt the cheese onto the already cooked dough.  Genius!

#5b.  One humongous slice of cheese pizza = all you need for dinner in Milan, Italy.  This is the same pizza as the photo above (note same cousin, same pizza).  :)

#6.  The Choices of Pizza from Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy.

#7.  Jon is a happy customer, pizza from Riomaggiore from the Cinque Terre area of Italy.  Very simple, olive oil and pesto on the left, and delicious home grown olives with corse salt on the right.

#8.  I'm not sure if this quite classifies as pizza, but the general idea is the same.  Toasted bread, smothered in fresh basil pesto, and mozza.  They have so much basil there they are super generous with the pesto.  Here in Canada, pesto is precious and expensive and often scantily applied to food.  More is better.

#9.  Jon enjoying a slice of pizza from Monterosso al Mare, one of the towns from Cinque Terre, Italy.  Thick slices of mozzarella, and oregano.

#10.  Pizza from Pisa Train Station.  Pita type crust, olives, artichoke hearts, and ham.

#11.  Pizza from Florence (Firenze)! This pizzaria had quite the assortment of pizza toppings, we picked two different types to try.  On the right, fresh sausage with mozzarella, on the left we have ham and mushroom with mozzarella.  This pizza was a bit on the salty side, but it was convenient that one slice of rectangular pizza was cut into six squares, sharing encouraged!

#12.  This is Pizza from Jon's dad's hometown of Troia.  This was the best pizza from the whole trip.  MMMMmmmmm, sweet delicious memories.  This pizza had thick crust, saturated in fresh olive oil, straight from the fields, covered in delicious and fresh naturally sundried tomato's.  This pizza was accompanied by fresh mozzarella that are tied in knots.  If you would like, you can rip off a piece of mozza, place it on the pizza, and enjoy! This pizza was eaten for dinner.....and breakfast, my kinda breakfast.

#13.  Our last pizza of Italy, from the city of Brindisi way in the South of Italy right on the heel of the boot.  Very oily (this is not a negative), very simple, very delicious.

#14.  Home made pizza in Malta, Joe and Doris were the chefs!  They put everything on their pizza's as you can see.  One key ingredient which we only found here in Malta was boiled egg sliced and placed on the pizza, not bad! More protien!

#15.  This is a set of three pizza's (all the same type of pizza) and one pasta with King Prawns from Malta, along with delicious house wine.  The locals tended to put sprite in their wine, the Canadians... did not.  On these pizza's were: eggplant, artichoke hearts, onions, olives, and peppers.  The cheese was put under the toppings, and the crust was relatively thin.

This concludes our Pizza experiences traveling through Italia and Malta.  Quite the variety of pizza that we enjoyed.  Now to replicate some at home.  Seems as though the key ingredient to make it delicious is...... high quality Olive Oil!  

Feel free to share your pizza experiences here, so we can keep experimenting to discover our own personal opinion of what makes the greatest slice of pizza!

Ciao, Jon and Heather Prencipe.