Posted on 02/23/2025 8:22:21 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
An aside: My wife and I are into foraging and Sicily is a forager's paradise. Today we went down by the lake here for wild asparagus and got a pile of them. Delicious sauteed in some local olive oil. Tons of edible wild greens here too, which I cook in a cast iron pan with some local sausage. In the fall, we go hunting wild mushrooms and usually get tons.
The food here cannot be beaten.
Peanut butter also. All of a sudden every kid is allergic.
I’m an owner in a small pizza place. We only use high gluten flour for the dough.
Gluten free we buy frozen. It’s cauliflower based.
Is your dough imported or American?
American milled
When I lived in Italy I ate bread and pasta all the time & never gained an ounce. In the U.S. I have to avoid it like the plague or I’ll pack on weight like crazy. I think it’s all the preservatives they put in it in the U.S. to extend shelf life, bread here will last a week on the shelf. In Europe the bread in a grocery store is usually restocked by a local bakery a couple of times a day , it doesn’t last more than a couple of days because it doesn’t have all the chemicals in it.
So true! Unfortunately the article indicates that it’s not just the over-processing that’s the issue, but the natural elements too like the soil...I think even “organic” American still wouldn’t ‘rival European quality as a result.
Okay well I’d go for a super thin normal crust or the cauliflower crust then...but I don’t like cheese. LoL so I get cheese-less pizza in general (sacrelige! I know but I love an array of toppings) and I know some cauliflower crusts contain it.
With no cheese it’s usually better with olive oil rather than red sauce.
Aldi does have 2 varieties of the particular brand of chocolates from Germany, one has more cocoa than the other. Everyone should get what they like. I just have a bias for Cadbury brand from UK, probably because I grew up with it.
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I order “easy on the sauce” and ask for side of olive oil (plus balsamic sometimes) to dip pizza in as I eat — or will just drizzle a bit myself :) — not the most elegant thing, but I like controlling the amount of oil.
Nice thread...
Except for those of us who can barely afford what’s cheapest at Aldi. :-(
... But, at least the prices for the supplemental feed for our free range chickens are not up too much, and hopefully the garden will do better this year. :-)
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