Pizza Time!

If there's going to be one food that's going to blow this vegan crap, it will be pizza. I LOOOOOOVE pizza. And I love all those gross, unhealthy things you're not supposed to have on it - sausage, pepperoni, anchovies - you name it.

Now I know I'm SUPPOSED to hate pizza. That's my schtick here, hating foods I used to love. But can I do that with PIZZA, my most seductive mistress?

Of course!

No, what a filthy lie. I still love her and want to put my face right into her.

So you can imagine my lust happiness LUST when I came across pizza in the vegan foods section!

Now I'm not gonna lie - the fact that this contained "vegan" in the title made me want to punch it right in the pie pan. Damn hippy food. And really, I've tasted "healthy" pizza before. I know how this goes - the picture on the box looks delicious, and the reality is a damp slice of cardboard with one topping for every twelve inches of pizza.

So it was a certain sense of doom I popped this onto our pizza stone and into the oven (I had to at least try that much - ANY pizza is gross in the microwave, so why not give this SOME sort of chance?). It only took about ten minutes to heat up, which was a surprise - being a long-time veteran of frozen pizza meals, I expected at least a 20-minute wait in the oven. The brief cooking time, I assumed, was a sure sign of the disgusting cardboard I was about to eat.

Now, a better blogger would have taken a picture of the pizza when they took it out of the oven. I would have done that, only that would have interfered with me stuffing this delicious concoction into my mouth.

I expected dull, gross flavors. Especially that "fake" cheese - I mean, it doesn't contain any dairy! How can it possibly taste okay?

The answer, to my surprise, was that it didn't taste okay - it tasted downright delicious! Everything on that pizza tasted fresh and juicy. And that was one small problem - because I cooked it on a pizza stone, it did seem very "wet" in the center. I think that's because the tomatoes and sauce on it were full of pretty fresh vegetables, so of course they were wet! The tomatoes really burst with flavor, and the sauce blended together so perfectly with the cheese I could have wept. The crust was not only NOT cardboard, it had an excellent texture and was perfect crisp around the edge, just how I love it. I did bake it a little longer than the suggested 10 mins, but only by another minute, and because I like my pizza a little well-done.

This pizza blew me away. Not only that, I'm sorry I didn't buy more than just one - this is an awesome quick meal, and super easy to bake in a short period of time. The next day I reheated leftovers for lunch and it was just as delicious. Not only that, I shared pieces with my (very non-vegan) co-workers, and they all agreed it was delicious, so this isn't just some calorie-starved-induced-hallucination from me.

I'm definitely going to check out several other foods from Amy's Kitchen - something that should be pretty easy, considering there's a number of them in our Giant's health food section.