If there’s a dedicated thread to frozen pizza available at your local supermarket I haven’t found it.
Knowing full well that we have excellent pizzaioli and pizzaiole in our ranks, maybe sometimes you didn’t make that dough 76 hours in advance, or don’t feel like getting your >insert extra-special pizza equipment< out of the basement.
On those (rare) occasions, what are the trusty brands you reach for when you have a craving? What are your favorite iterations of their pies?
I’m going totally ordinary, because I only buy them for work for when I don’t have leftovers to bring in for lunch or didn’t want a PB&J or a tuna salad sandwich.
Stouffer’s French Bread pizza with pepperoni is my go-to - one will tide me over until I get home and make dinner. And I’m ever-so-thankful it’s made with 100% cheese.
I haven’t it in ages, but Stouffer’s spinach soufflé used to be fantastic and unlike any other frozen food I’ve ever eaten. And yes, @linguafood , their frozen French bread pizza has been around since I was in college in the early 80s. And although it’s really good, but beware that it’ll burn the roof of your mouth worse than most pizzas because of the thickness of the bread, though so be extra careful.
I still buy their spinach souffle. It makes great quiche mixed with sausage, cheese, mushroom and a couple of eggs. Also great stuffed mushrooms mixed with cheese and some bread crumbs.
I don’t have much experience with frozen pizza. The last one I had was when I was recovering from surgery and I thought, never again. Last week I tried Digiorno Rising crust. It wasn’t too bad. Better than the fast-food pizza I can get around me (Papa John’s). I am sick with covid and had a fever at the time so I don’t know if my judgment can be trusted. I think it was the supreme version, the works.
Screaming Sicilian Maximus Supremus (or something like that) is almost as good as a reheated slice from the local slice shop (which is not my choice vs. a whole real pizza). Emergency rations, so to speak. The other frozen pizzas I have had the (mis)fortune to try are not worth the calories and salt.
We liked Newman’s Supreme pizza, had it in the freezer all the time. But it went down hill and so we cut it out of lives.
Stouffer’s FB Deluxe pizza is a guilty lunch pleasure with a little salad to balance it out.
Just saw the Stouffer’s French Bread Deluxe in the grocery store and hustled them straight into my cart. I rarely see this style; if I see any Souffer’s, it’s either cheese or pepperoni. And I done even see those ones that often.
I will admit I like the French bread pizzas a lot more than the single serve frozen pizza-ettes that are out there. I do a a pinch of red pepper flakes. .
I also like Stouffer’s stuffed peppers. Stuffed peppers are one of the first things I learned to cook - I remember calling my mom when I was in college to ask her how to make them.
My fave frozen pizza of all time was Wolfgang Puck’s. Hasn’t been around for decades.