Pizza toppings suggestions

[mr steev]

and a tart is the same as a flan, appart from a tart is more likely to have a shortcrust base and a flan a sponge base.

Flan is a pie sans lid. Quiche is jellified scrambled eggs in a pie sans lid.

Apart from with things like apple tart and rhubarb tarts, which have a lid but are much shallower than an apple or rhubarb pie

 

[Citizen66]

According to wiki, a flan is a type of tart and a quiche is a type of flan.

 

[Greebo]

According to wiki, a flan is a type of tart and a quiche is a type of flan.

So all quiches are flans, and all flans are tarts, but not all tarts are flans and not all flans are quiches. My brain hurts.

 

[Citizen66]

And a tart is a type of pie.

 

[mrs quoad]

So all quiches are flans, and all flans are tarts, but not all tarts are flans and not all flans are quiches. My brain hurts.

 

[danny la rouge]

Flan is a pie sans lid. Quiche is jellified scrambled eggs in a pie sans lid.

No, quiche is excrement. As in:

Literal: "Oh no, I've trodden in some quiche."
An exclamation: "Oh, quiche!"
Metaphor: "Come here, ye wee quiche!"

Conversation:

"What's for tea tonight?"
"Quiche."
"Don't be so hard on yourself; I'm sure it won't be as bad as last night!"

 

[mrs quoad]

HTH.

Vicars.

Vicars and tarts.

Well known.

 

[mrs quoad]

Some tremendous suggestions

Including Dave's troll suggestion, which - tbh - I quite like the look of.

Gonna have to print this thread out and tick some off

REckon we should make our own passata too.

CHRIST ALMIGHTY that was a fucking shite idea.

Luckily, I went into Sainsbury's at JUST the same time as a yummy mummy from my gym, so felt guilt-tripped into buying something healthy (tbh, I was only there for bread and ham which doesn't 'arf look pasty in a basket). So ended up buying £5.bloody50 of tomatoes as a gesture towards passata, and healthy shopping baskets.

Long story short, 2 pissing hours of cooking, sieving, and assorted fuckery and I've ended up with a decent-sized bowlful of stuff that's marginally more interesting than what I could've bought for £1 off the shelf.

And the washing up. Oh, Jesus Christ the washing up. Chopping board, 3 knives (not sure why), 2 roasting trays, 2 large plastic bowls (twice), 1 wok, the bloody sieve (twice), and goodness only knows what else.

Remorseless. Bloody remorseless. And all to produce 1 litre of passata, at about £6.

 

[danny la rouge]

CHRIST ALMIGHTY that was a fucking shite idea.

Luckily, I went into Sainsbury's at JUST the same time as a yummy mummy from my gym, so felt guilt-tripped into buying something healthy (tbh, I was only there for bread and ham which doesn't 'arf look pasty in a basket). So ended up buying £5.bloody50 of tomatoes as a gesture towards passata, and healthy shopping baskets.

Long story short, 2 pissing hours of cooking, sieving, and assorted fuckery and I've ended up with a decent-sized bowlful of stuff that's marginally more interesting than what I could've bought for £1 off the shelf.

And the washing up. Oh, Jesus Christ the washing up. Chopping board, 3 knives (not sure why), 2 roasting trays, 2 large plastic bowls (twice), 1 wok, the bloody sieve (twice), and goodness only knows what else.

Remorseless. Bloody remorseless. And all to produce 1 litre of passata, at about £6.

And that's exactly why Italian cooks buy passata.

 

[killer b]

pointless doing anything with fresh tomatoes at this time of year anyway. I just simmer tinned tomatoes for ages with garlic and that. It's much nicer than shop bought.

 

[gosub]

CHRIST ALMIGHTY that was a fucking shite idea.

Luckily, I went into Sainsbury's at JUST the same time as a yummy mummy from my gym, so felt guilt-tripped into buying something healthy (tbh, I was only there for bread and ham which doesn't 'arf look pasty in a basket). So ended up buying £5.bloody50 of tomatoes as a gesture towards passata, and healthy shopping baskets.

Long story short, 2 pissing hours of cooking, sieving, and assorted fuckery and I've ended up with a decent-sized bowlful of stuff that's marginally more interesting than what I could've bought for £1 off the shelf.

And the washing up. Oh, Jesus Christ the washing up. Chopping board, 3 knives (not sure why), 2 roasting trays, 2 large plastic bowls (twice), 1 wok, the bloody sieve (twice), and goodness only knows what else.

Remorseless. Bloody remorseless. And all to produce 1 litre of passata, at about £6.

???? Suppose it depends which recipe you used, mine costs me £1.68 to make, in 55mins, washing up is one chopping board,one knife,one large saucepan,one wooden spoon

 

[mrs quoad]

RIGHT.

Summary of the on-topic posts:

• spinach, gorgonzola and walnut (using fresh spinach leaves) (by PM, so don't go looking for it)
• spinach and feta
• asparagus and goat's cheese
• peppers, sun dried tomatoes, olives
• peppers, onions and mushrooms
• spinach, goat's cheese, sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, egg
• pesto, olives, mozzarella, tomatoes
• parmesan, mozzarella, peppers, olives, mushrooms
• olives, capers, mushrooms, onions
• pesto, spinach, sundried tomatoes
• goat's cheese and artichoke
• spinach, mushrooms, parma ham, ricotta
• chorizo, jarred red peppers, onion, spinach, tomatoes, mozzarella, parmesan
• chorizo, red pepper, pesto [might try this with added chicken]
• mozzarella, very thin onions and tomatoes, olives, pesto, oregano, capers, olive oil
• chorizo, olives and chilli
• parma ham, garlic mushrooms, olives
• chargrilled peppers, caramelised onions with balsamic vinegar, olives
• olives, chorizo, sweetcorn, pineapple, jalapenos
• red onion, black olives, artichoke hearts, 'etc'
• something about Swedish people and defining vegetables
• a remarkably expansive definition of tarts, quiches and flans.

NB: I've missed off all the anchovy suggestions, because anchovies are fucking rank and I'm not wasting my handwriting on them.

Also, I probably should've mentioned in the OP that Artichoke is a vegetarian who does not like goats' cheese

She'll probably win a half pizza all to herself.

 

[DrRingDing]

Last night I made community pizzas for the house, on mine I had:

-Cherry tomato, sliced in half, sliced bit facing up.
-Slivers of red pepper
-Black olives
-a bit of chopped spring onion
-Smoked cheddar
-Stilton
-Shropshire blue
-Parmesan
-Tomato, chilli and garlic sauce for the base.

Fucking nom.

 

[Greebo]

And that's exactly why Italian cooks buy passata.

It's also why I use drained & blended tomatoes.

 

[Citizen66]

You appear to have overlooked my egg suggestion, which I thought was a cracking idea.

 

[mrs quoad]

You appear to have overlooked my egg suggestion, which I thought was a cracking idea.

Apologies; I don't do eggs

 

[Citizen66]

Ah yes, but your guests might!

 

[TruXta]

CHRIST ALMIGHTY that was a fucking shite idea.

Luckily, I went into Sainsbury's at JUST the same time as a yummy mummy from my gym, so felt guilt-tripped into buying something healthy (tbh, I was only there for bread and ham which doesn't 'arf look pasty in a basket). So ended up buying £5.bloody50 of tomatoes as a gesture towards passata, and healthy shopping baskets.

Long story short, 2 pissing hours of cooking, sieving, and assorted fuckery and I've ended up with a decent-sized bowlful of stuff that's marginally more interesting than what I could've bought for £1 off the shelf.

And the washing up. Oh, Jesus Christ the washing up. Chopping board, 3 knives (not sure why), 2 roasting trays, 2 large plastic bowls (twice), 1 wok, the bloody sieve (twice), and goodness only knows what else.

Remorseless. Bloody remorseless. And all to produce 1 litre of passata, at about £6.

Hate to say I told you so....

 

[mrs quoad]

Hate to say I told you so....

Some things I need to learn by experience

 

[TruXta]

Been there done that.

 

[mrs quoad]

Just back from spending £45 on pizza toppings (and the ingredients for a cheesecake desert, tbf). £14 of it on assorted cheeses. Not including any parmesan (Gran Padano stacked in the Parmesan space!) Walnuts, parma ham, gorgonzola, loads of artichoke hearts, chorizo, ricotta, 1kg of mozzarella (probably a bit too much, ay ), stacks of mushrooms, red peppers, a very large jar of black olives, san marzino tomatoes, walnuts. Reckon that should do

 

[Espresso]

pointless doing anything with fresh tomatoes at this time of year anyway. I just simmer tinned tomatoes for ages with garlic and that. It's much nicer than shop bought.

That's true. They taste of less than nowt.

Where I live, in the North West of England, they grow a lot of tomatoes in greenhouses which aren't ready yet, but when they come in they are just simply divine and dirt cheap. I never buy imported tomatoes. Never not ever. Dutch ones taste of nothing at all, ever and the Spanish ones you get here seem to have skins which have evolved into a substrate to rival leather. I reckon those pesky Nederlanders and Espanoles keep all the best ones for themselves. Which I would, to be fair; if I was them.
When our season is getting near to the end I buy crates of them and make gallons of soup and roasted tomatoes and passata for the freezer. There will be no raw tomatoes in this house till the new season starts. And once it does, it's tomatoes every day, baybeeee.

 

[killer b]

Some things I need to learn by experience

Try again when tomatoes are in season.

 

[mrs quoad]

Tbf, it tastes damned good.

It was just pretty expensive.

And effortful.

 

[killer b]

where was the effort? Chop, boil em up, sieve. Its not that hard is it?

 

[muvva]

tahini is good instead of cheese- yum.

 

[TruXta]

That's true. They taste of less than nowt.

Where I live, in the North West of England, they grow a lot of tomatoes in greenhouses which aren't ready yet, but when they come in they are just simply divine and dirt cheap. I never buy imported tomatoes. Never not ever. Dutch ones taste of nothing at all, ever and the Spanish ones you get here seem to have skins which have evolved into a substrate to rival leather. I reckon those pesky Nederlanders and Espanoles keep all the best ones for themselves. Which I would, to be fair; if I was them.
When our season is getting near to the end I buy crates of them and make gallons of soup and roasted tomatoes and passata for the freezer. There will be no raw tomatoes in this house till the new season starts. And once it does, it's tomatoes every day, baybeeee.

Spanish tomatos in season, in Spain, are lush. All you need is a drop of olive oil and a pinch of salt.

 

[Espresso]

No argument about that.
I'm sure any fruit or veg that you eat in season, near to where it's grown must taste better than any fruit or veg that's put on a truck, then a plane or a boat and sent thousands of miles before you get it. Once anything is picked it starts to die, after all. The sooner you get to chomp it down, the better.

 

[TruXta]

Of course.

 

[mrs quoad]

Up at 7 to make the first batch of pizza dough for lunch!

Ah yes, but your guests might!

They're more than welcome to like them, but not in MY house!

I used to throw up spontaneously at the smell of boiled egg

Though tbf fried isn't so bad.