I find the frozen pizzas are a lot better if I put them in the oven a bit.
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Protip: pimp your pizza.
Slap on some nice cheeses, some nice cold cuts (if you're into meat), sprinkle some basil and oregano, can even dump a more consistent pizza sauce over it of you're feeling frisky! Turns a 5/10 slab of whatever into a 7/10 slab of whatever with custom rims and a body kit!
Pizza sauce is so easy to make yourself - fry a clove of garlic in a teaspoon of oil, add a can a chopped tomatoes, a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, a pinch of oregano - let that simmer on the stove, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until all the water has boiled off and you have a thick puree then spread that on your chosen base and add some cheese. Voila! If you learn how to make your own dough then a homemade cheese pizza will cost pennies and taste better than anything you will get in the supermarket.
You lost me at making my own dough.
The only real problem with making your own dough is the rise time when you just want to slap it together and eat.
get some nduja, hot sauce, and fresh basil on that motherfucker. Delivery pizza is obsolete.
Dice up a bit of fresh garlic. Put some Sriracha on there. Get creative and indulgent! The frozen pizza is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.
Frozen pizzas are… quite the range. Some are legitimately a pathetic excuse that barely approximates the concept of a pizza. Some are pretty good, not great but not bad.
In ether case I can’t imagine eating one multiple nights in a row.
Same, and it’s always worth it adding cheese on top.
In any case, there are other kinds of cheap, relatively decent foods out there. It shouldn’t be hard to have variation even on a budget. Not ideal, but not nearly as grim as frozen pizza every day.
The crazy thing is, frozen pizzas aren’t that cheap. Like, they’re not super expensive, but hardly eating on a budget.
There are frozen pizzas near me (a relatively expensive food area, for America), that cost $1.25 (~17c an ounce) and have almost 500 calories. I'm not advocating for the frozen pizza diet at all but that level of price/calorie ratio is pretty impressive.
The cheapest at my local super market is 4 bucks for the same.
… you wouldn’t happen to be living in the mid west would you? Frozen pizza is notoriously cheap there due to supply chain reasons.
I'd say even the pretty good ones can be great not the best pizza but like legitimately quite good if you get a pizza stone I think a large chunk of the problem with frozen pizza is regular ovens just don't cook them that well and the pizza stone largely fixes that
i have never encountered a bad frozen pizza, it's like making bad dry pasta, it's so incredibly fucking easy that no company can fuck it up.
Bruh my meals, if I remember to eat anything, are basically just a protein shake and a cheese stick. Every day. Or occasionally just chocolate chips and milk because it’s fast and tastes good enough I can eat it even if my body doesn’t want to eat.
If I had the motivation to buy and cook a frozen pizza for an actual dinner, I’d feel like I’d been cured of mental illness lol
Edit: To alleviate any concerns, I’m well aware of the health detriment. This is the worst I’ve been in a while, but I am working on it.
Also thank you to the comments because just remembering this post made me remember to eat food rn lol. I’m eating some fruit now and am going to make some ramen with carrots and an egg later (totally forgot I had carrots lol)
In case anyone else reading this is like me this is your reminder to eat food today; do it now before you forget again
Eat a fuckin vegetable holy shit. You’ll feel so much better.
You’re 100% right, unfortunately my brain doesn’t connect the feeling better to the eating vegetables and I totally forget I bought them by day 2 and then end up throwing away rotting vegetables a week later.
But I did just buy a mini fridge so hopefully keeping food nearby will remind me it exists and my brain won’t be able to use the excuses of “it’s so far away” or “you might have to interact with people in the kitchen or on your way”
i think one of the best things to do is just stop thinking about it and do it. it works for me, and hopefully works for you too. USE YOUR WILL POWER!
ikr on a "bad day" I'm basically just grabbing a slice of bread and opening the fridge to find something edible to wrap it around.
You should try other frozen foods
Or look up 10 or 15 minute recipes
Exactly. In the time you get the oven warm and cook the pizza, you can prepare something else. I admit pizza is easier, thou.
I have the privilege of cooking a homemade dinner for my partner and I every night. :3
1: Buy a roll of pizza dough.
2: Buy one of those 20 cent cans of tomatopaste.
3: Buy cheese, not shredded cheese because that's more expensive and less tasty.
4: Add those items on top of the dough, add vegetables/meat/fish/whatever to taste.
5: Enjoy vastly superior pizza for roughly the same price.
A bunch of tortillas are cheap and work almost as well as pizza dough, and are less work.
I say this as somebody who makes their own two day fermented pizza dough. Honestly they're 75% as good.
3: Cheese... Do you have any tricks for shredding fresh mozzarella? I tried freezing it for a bit but that still just gums up the shredder. Other people say just pick it apart, but man that takes forever.
Ive had good results basically dicing the mozz into little cubes
Get a lump of dried mozzarella, not fresh. Or better yet, try Oaxaca cheese
I've never seen dried mozzarella but I will try this if I do, thank you.
You probably don’t want to be using “fresh” motz. Generally that refers to high moisture Mozzarella, which will be too wet to work well unless you use it very sparingly like how Neapolitan is done. You want to use low moisture Mozzarella, IE the bricks, unfortunately most of the bricks are low fat which lacks flavor, so ideally you want to look for full fat, low moisture Mozzarella, the most reliable way to find it is as cheese sticks, but it’s a pain to unwrap a bunch for pizza and the amount of plastic waste is a shame.
Ether way you shouldn’t need to shred it, jus t break it up a little with a few knife cuts to get it in to slices and lay those across it. It’s fine if they’re not super thin slices as they’ll melt and distribute a bit.
all you have to do is finely slice some onions on it, add some more cheese, add kalamata olives five mins before taking it out. done. overall probably adds 5 more mins to prep time.
- Premade thin pizza crust
- Layer of fig spread
- Layer of pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Prosciutto
- Some globs of fig sauce
- A little more mozzarella
- Bake in oven
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