Mmmm Pizza
Posted on July 14, 2007Stopped by Le Quartier Bakery the other day. At Meridian Park in Lincoln, it’s a couple of blocks away from my apartment, so when I heard how awesome it was, I had to make sure to check it out. First of all got a bleu cheese loaf from them. It’s just a loaf of bread with bleu cheese chunks baked into the bread and crust. So good I could eat a whole loaf in one sitting if I tried. I also picked up a three pack of pizza crusts. I wish I had gone earlier because they were out of wheat crusts so I had to settle for white. But the white was still good. I stocked up on other pizza supplies and made some the other night. (Too busy working, didn’t have time to post this sooner. Tonight is the last night of the huge member guest tournament at work, and then it all goes downhill from here.)
I started with the crusts, and added Outlaw Spice Co. pizza sauce. It’s a local brand, and the sauce is pretty good. Not too sweet but not too salty either. It’s right in the middle there. And I get to support a Lincoln company. Neat-o!
On one pizza, I went with straight pepperoni and cheese, a classic. I’ll admit I cheaped out on the pepperonis, (they were Oscar Meyer brand) but when I was at the supermarket I was in a hurry and couldn’t find anything else. They were still good, though very greasy. There was nasty pepperoni jelly in the bottom of the container. The other pizza I went with pepperoni and cheese again (you get a lot of pepperonis in that little container) but I mixed in pesto, garlic, and a little cheese with the sauce. We didn’t have any good herbs to mix in, otherwise I would have done that as well.
I baked the pizza for 11 minutes at 475. The directions with the crust said 7 minutes, but with my piling on of the toppings, it took a little while longer for the cheese to get all gooey and melty. The end result was very good. I used a little too much pesto, but I can scale it back next time. It still came out tasting very yummy, and it even tasted great the next day.
End result: Pizza very good. I highly recommend you, the precious reader, try it some time.
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whoa. I want to make me some more of those. Really good stuff.
My friend swears about coating the crust with olive oil before cooking. Makes it brown up nice.
Yeah the bleu cheese bread is dangerous.
Yeah I put a little olive oil on there but maybe I should have coated it as you said. Also next time I’m going to try setting the oven to broil for a minute or two just to get the cheese super melty and a little crisp.
The bleu cheese bread is fantastic, but don’t let it sit for a day, I found that out the hard way when i got a mouthful of sock-flavored bread.