Or after, for that matter. Either frozen or fresh.
I rarely buy grocery store pizzas, but when I do I always add more cheese, either parmesan or some grated cheese I have around. I always drizzle olive oil all over and rub some on the crusty edges. Might sprinkle on garlic powder or granulated garlic. Maybe add leftovers like canned chopped tomatoes, green peppers, or salami slices.
I like bell peppers and onions on my pizza. When Papa Murphys has their Cowboy pizza (mostly meats) on sale, I’ll load it up with onions and green bell peppers, and sometimes more cheese.
I’ve also been known to buy their pepperoni pizza when it’s on sale and dump an entire (drained) can of pineapple on top, with extra cheese.
With store-bought frozen pizzas, anything is fair game. Those things are notoriously sparse on toppings.
We have Penzey’s Pasta Sprinkle and ground aleppo pepper. I’ll have to investigate.
Not always, but usually. We’ll leave half of it bland, for the kiddos. On the other half, we’ll put some combination of:
-Olives (for me only)
-Pickled onions (we make 'em pretty often and usually have a jar of sliced pickled red onions in the fridge)
-Walnuts
-Parmesan
-Dried oregano/thyme
-Feta, if we have it
Yeah, with frozen pizza, I don’t want to add any more seasoning to begin with. Most pies are already seasoned much more than I season my own pies. The only exception is that with a frozen mushroom pizza, I may add a little bit of dried thyme to it.
The only thing I adulterate frozen pizza with is pepper flakes or hot sauce these days. I used to add all sorts of additions, but it still tasted like frozen pizza to me, so why bother wasting my good ingredients and time on that? Don’t get me wrong – I try to always have at least one frozen pizza in the freezer, but it’s just pepper flakes or hot sauce that goes on it.
I don’t eat frozen pizza, but when I bring home a fresh pie from the best local pizzeria I generally sprinkle a little dried oregano, granulated garlic, and crushed red pepper on every slice. Not that I don’t trust them to make good pizza, but I enjoy the augmentation.
I do it differently. I get either a plain cheese or a vegetable pizza. I knock off most of the cheese, because gobs of greasy mozzarella don’t do anything for me. I add more veggies, garlic, sundried tomatoes, and then dab on blue cheese or chevre.