Delicious Pizza

[nettiesaur]

(05-07-2010 10:32 PM)Bageleth Wrote:  

(05-07-2010 04:40 PM)nettiesaur Wrote:  I'm not vegetarian, but I'm allergic to cheese, and nuts for that matter.
I can't stand the artificial vegan cheeses. They either taste like plastic, or just sit there and don't hold anything on the crust. So I've given up trying to use them.
Instead, I put a light layer of sauce on the crust( your favorite dough), and push the toppings down into the crust. Now they stay on the pizza, and no plastic cheese is necessary.

"plastic cheese" would be an apt description. My husband sometimes buys a frozen vegan pizza made by "Amy's". Somehow everything manages to stay on the crust.

The topic of cheeseless pizza reminds me of when I was about 8 and my mother had newly discovered milk allergies. We went to the drive-in one Friday or Saturday night (as we usually did) and we ordered a pizza from the snack bar (back when you could get a fairly freshly made one at a drive in) and my mom ordered it without cheese. Before I continue, I'll just say that this was a time in my dad's life when he only wore white shirts, all of the time. Once the pizza was in the car, he picked up his first slice to eat it, and..................all of the toppings and sauce, slid right off of the crust and down the front of his white shirt. That was the only time we ordered a cheeseless pizza.

Amy's "cheese" has casien in it, a milk product. I like the Amy's No Cheese pizza, but there's no protein on it, and of course then it's going to fall off.


Before I started pushing stuff down into the dough, I ate many pizzas that were like the one that attacked your dad! I learned to eat pizza with a fork...not much fun, but at least I could have it.