Monday, February 4, 2008

Cheese on Pizza




I noticed something interesting this weekend in my world of cheese. My mother was making pizza muffins (English Muffins sliced in half, topped with tomato sauce, layered with cheese, and often some time of sliced meat, then baked until the muffin is toasted and cheese is melted) for my family. While they were baking, my sister opened the oven and was horrified because my mom did not put enough cheese on the English Muffins.


It got me thinking about "regular" pizza and the preferred amount of cheese on it. I know it is healthier to order "light cheese" on pizza, but I know that I and my friends and family tend to order "extra cheese." Do most people prefer more cheese?

Then, while eating the pizza muffins, I noticed they did not taste the same as usual. I asked my mom if she had done anything differently. She did. She told me she had to use shredded cheddar cheese because we did not have any shredded mozzarella left. So, that got me thinking about the types of cheese pizza is normally made with. In a future post I will discuss my discoveries of the types of cheese used by various restaurants, when making pizza.

...hm, there are also those four-cheese pizzas in the frozen food isles.

1 comment:

hcummings said...

I once had a four cheese pizza while I was in France. This was not a good idea. The combination of all of the fancy French cheeses was just too weird for me... We stayed away from anything with "quatre fromage" for the rest of the week.