This is the Hawaiian personal pizza from J&J Pizzeria in Middletown, PA. If you’ve never heard of Hawaiian pizza, consider yourself lucky - ham, pineapple, tomato sauce, and cheese goes awful together. It tastes like you ate everything in the world and then puked it back up into your mouth. Consider it a cautionary tale. Do not order Hawaiian pizza, or a real Hawaiian will come and kill you.
This pizza joins the long line of things I order just to keep this blog a little more interesting. You’re welcome.
This is the Spinach Pizza from Cafe Fresco in Harrisburg, PA. I’ve probably talked about this one at least once before, so I’ll just say: spinach, feta, spicy red sauce. Light lunch pizza at a good price. Worth it.
On the same day as my previous post, we ordered an additional specialty pan pizza from Tony’s Pizzeria. This is the cheeseburger pan pizza.
We didn’t know what to expect re: toppings on this. Pickles? Ketchup? Lettuce? Tomatoes? Nope, just pizza sauce, ground beef, and five slices of American cheese!
Better than the taco pan pizza, but still not something we’d order again.
My wife and I decided to order a pair of unconventional specialty pan pizzas from Tony’s Pizzeria - they were both interesting, to say the least.
This is the Taco Pan Pizza. There was no description of what would be on it, so we dared to be surprised. SURPRISE! Hot salsa, taco-seasoned beef, lettuce, and GLOOPY NACHO CHEESE! Gloopy nacho cheese!
Certainly not good, and certainly not something we’d order again, but worth trying for the adventure.
This is a Sicilian pizza ordered by my wife. It’s not my type of pizza, but it is a good pizza. From J&J in Middletown, PA.
This is the personal-sized cheesesteak specialty pizza from J&J in Middletown, PA. I’m not a big fan of steak on pizza, but I was willing to give it a go for variety’s sake - it was not worth it.
A new pizzeria opened up on our way home from work - Tony’s in Highspire, PA. This is a cause for celebration, right? Right!
We stopped by on opening day for a couple of slices and a boli. My slice was the plain slice, and it was great - actually, very familiar.
As we looked at our menu, it was clear that Tony’s had the exact same menu as one of our other favorite places, Brother’s Pizzeria in Swatara, PA. The same layout, the same exact specialty items - the only thing that was different was the front page. And the ingredients are just as good!
Rachel’s slice had tomatoes and broccoli - and unlike a recent white pizza experience at Brothers’, which included ricotta, this slice was flavorful (although as you can see, a bit heavy-handed in the toppings department).
I didn’t eat any of the boli, because it is not pizza or pork fried rice, and therefore it does not belong in my diet.
What the hell happened here? Well, I didn’t really leave a lot of time for the dough to rise, and I think my water content was a bit low. As a result, the dough didn’t stretch like it should have. The toppings were things laying around that I wanted to get rid of.
Boring ol’ plain pizza, homemade. I love when the crust rises up in weird bubbles. It feels like I did something right - even though this pizza was a bit doughier than I had intended.
This was my wife’s single-slice order of a white pizza with broccoli, tomato, and ricotta. I’ve never been a fan of ricotta, and this did nothing to help the matters. This needed more flavor for me. I like BIG FLAVORS.
Broccoli/tomato/ricotta white pizza - slice
Brothers Pizzeria, Swatara, PA
