I hear ya. I sometimes will lightly toast a piece of bread, then spread leftover pasta sauce on it, then top it with a slice of American cheese. It goes into the toaster oven to melt the cheese. I call it pizza, but it obviously isn’t.
Them’s pizza toasts. Slice an onion, add a little olive oil, cook it in the microwave, mix in tomato puree, spread on your toast*, squeeze anchovy paste on top, cover with sliced or grated cheese (olives and capers are acceptable additions) and either grill or microwave.
Lunchtime treat!
j
* - to finish in a microwave you have to prepare very dry toast as the base.
I have had good taco pizza and bad taco pizza. It’s the quality of the ingredients and how they’re assembled that make the difference. I’m not a purist – at all – about pizza. Most of my favorites are very non-traditional.
Mmmmmm!
Pizza Hut had taco pizza in the 1970’s. I loved that version. It had refried beans and hamburger as the base. After cooking they dressed it with lettuce, onion, and tomato. Maybe guacamole?
Packets of Mexican sauce came on the side. I never use that stuff. Even at Taco Bell.
Really, what Pizza Hut offered was a tostada using a pizza crust. A great tostada starts with a layer of refried beans.
Nah, pizza is a blank canvas, quite like “taco” and “sandwich.”
I don’t know about taco pizza… seems like the crust and sauce would be the real sticking points. If I had to do it, it would be a thin crust, and something like the Old El Paso/Ortega taco sauce as the sauce, and then cheddar cheese topped with taco meat, tomatoes and onions (all kind of sparingly), and then after baking, maybe serve with shredded lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream as people want. I’m still not convinced it would be all that great though.
We once made a “hamburger” pizza because we had made sliders a few days before, and still had leftover slider sauce, a small amount of leftover ground beef, and other burger staples like cheddar cheese, dill pickle slices, etc…
Basically we used the slider sauce as the sauce, cheddar cheese as the cheese, and used pickles and ground beef as the toppings.
It was unexpectedly delicious. Maybe not exactly like having a burger, but at least reminiscent, and tasty nonetheless.
I’ve had attempts at nacho pizzas that were less than successful. They included chips on the pizza.
Although not completely successful, if you’re a college student and free pizza while on shift is a significant part of your budget, you’ll go for all kinds of odd things after a few weeks/months of regular, regular, regular.