My husband's favorite pizza joint has a spinoccoli pizza. The pie is seriously to die for, and is so good, the most staunch meat eater will forsake is all meat pizza and scarf this one down if given a choice, even moments after calling it a "pussy pizza" and other colorful things due to the lack of carcass.
The problem is trying to replicate this flavor combination elsewhere. We have tried, and tried, and tried. It never tastes the same no matter what we use, or where we attempt to order it. The exact and perfect flavor combination can ONLY be found in the restaurant where it was created. Isn't that always the way?
It consists of sliced tomatoes instead of tomato sauce, broccoli, spinach, lots of garlic, and a ton of cheese. It's also on a weird crust that tastes more like fruit pie crust than something you'd find on a pizza.
Despite our numerous failures--which aren't failures at all, really--, I keep making my own version in my own kitchen. It's not vegan because I detest the flavor of vegan cheese. HAYT IT! So, if I make pizza, I use regular cow's milk cheese. I don't know what it is about vegan cheese that has to taste so damn NASTY! And wow, is it pricey, so sorry, no, I'm not paying $6 for a few ounces of a product that tastes like something wiped off a hooker's crotch.
The pizza dough is the garlic/herb variety from Trader Joe's which is vegan, their sauce, also vegan, and the assorted toppings, so you CAN make your own vegan pizza quite easily, as long as you don't mind eating vegan cheese, or going cheeseless, which I've also done.
It would be such a perfect slice if only vegan cheese tasted good. As it is, I lament that it's not a vegan slice, but at least it's edible.
And while it doesn't taste exactly like a real spinoccoli, it is a mighty fine tasting pie. Homemade pizzas are really the best ones, you know, no matter how they're topped.
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