If you want good pizza in Austin, it's not hard to find. I'm personally very partial to Mangia's Chicago-style stuffed crust. Usually, I choose wheat crust and get a spinach pie which has just a touch of nutmeg. Other times, it might be tomatoes with onion. Delicious and divine, a small will yield leftovers. I feel lucky too, because the one up north delivers to the house.
If I want to go out for pizza then I head to Home Slice Pizza, the queen of pies, on South Congress. HS serves up delicious slices, beer and tiramisu. Their waitstaff is great with lots of personality and I am always happy to sit at a big table with friends, fold up a slice and munch away.
This past week I purchased a nice-sized bucket of Italian-made buffalo mozzarella. Creamy and smooth, I made a caprese salad and was wondering what else I might use it in. Well, combined with the basil I'd bought to make the salad, a pizza seemed more than obvious so I stopped at Central Market and bought a pizza crust from the bakery for a whole TWO DOLLARS. I think it might be the cheapest thing in the store. Anyway, I topped the crust with tomato sauce, crushed red pepper and slices of the cheese and baked it for about 10 minutes. The crust came out perfect perfect, a thin crispy bottom with lightly textured top. Dinner was ready in no time and the CM crust is now my kitchen secret...but go ahead and use it.
Mangez!
If I want to go out for pizza then I head to Home Slice Pizza, the queen of pies, on South Congress. HS serves up delicious slices, beer and tiramisu. Their waitstaff is great with lots of personality and I am always happy to sit at a big table with friends, fold up a slice and munch away.
This past week I purchased a nice-sized bucket of Italian-made buffalo mozzarella. Creamy and smooth, I made a caprese salad and was wondering what else I might use it in. Well, combined with the basil I'd bought to make the salad, a pizza seemed more than obvious so I stopped at Central Market and bought a pizza crust from the bakery for a whole TWO DOLLARS. I think it might be the cheapest thing in the store. Anyway, I topped the crust with tomato sauce, crushed red pepper and slices of the cheese and baked it for about 10 minutes. The crust came out perfect perfect, a thin crispy bottom with lightly textured top. Dinner was ready in no time and the CM crust is now my kitchen secret...but go ahead and use it.
Mangez!