{"id":6130,"date":"2011-09-30T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2011-09-30T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:39:04","slug":"portland-blitz-ladd-for-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6130","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR – Blitz Ladd (for pizza)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mrs. Burgerdogboy was having a lunch biz meeting here and offered to bring me something home.\u00a0 (She is SO good to me!)\u00a0 I went with the pizza, simply because a) I haven’t had pizza in awhile, and 2) I had not tried Blitz’s and it would give me something to write about.<\/p>\n

I asked her to get the “People’s Pizza”, which promises 18″ of fun topped with salami, ham, Italian sausage and bacon.<\/p>\n

While she was waiting for her take-out order, Mrs BDB talked to the chef a bit, who came out and asked if everything her party had was OK.\u00a0 Chef explained the difference between the various locations of Blitz – was has just opened in SW on 99w.\u00a0\u00a0 Menus and themes vary at each location.<\/p>\n

The pizza arrived at our house a short time later, still warm from the oven. It’s a monster pie – 18″, most shops version of large is 14″, and the pie was esthetically pleasing.<\/p>\n

I knew at first glance that I would love the crust – thin and cracker like, promising crispy crunching at the edges, and chewy goodness as one progressed inward towards the middle.<\/p>\n

Toppings were ample, and while I am not usually a fan of crumbled and diced toppings, preferring hand-pulled or sliced chunks, instead, but\u00a0on the Blitz’s pie, this method really worked – due to the quantity of toppings used – flavor extended across the entire diameter.\u00a0 Whole slices of salami dotted the pizza in a concentric circle.<\/p>\n

The sauce and cheese are to my liking – blending in with the other flavors, neither overpowering the other.\u00a0\u00a0 Applications of finely diced garlic, and an ample sprinkling of herbs round out the taste of the Blitz pizza.<\/p>\n

Two things I look for:\u00a0 On a thin crust, the effect that NY “hang” has on the toppings; when you hold a slice and it slumps over, do the toppings all end up in the box?\u00a0 Not so with Blitz.\u00a0 Second?\u00a0 How does the pie fare the next morning, having sat in the box all nite?\u00a0 Blitz?\u00a0 Excellent.\u00a0 Enjoying left overs right this second, and with an 18″ pie, there are ample leftovers!<\/p>\n

Pizza, like all foods, is a very personal thing.\u00a0 One has their likes and dislikes.\u00a0 I haven’t been too happy with pies in Portland, despite the raves some restaurants receive from their customers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My favorite to date has been from Cara Amico <\/a>on Barbur.<\/p>\n

Today, Blitz knocked off Cara Amico and moved to the top of my Portland list! (Add sliced Silician-style olives as a topping choice, you’ll move near the top of my all-time favorite list as well!)<\/p>\n

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All Meat Pie from Blitz-Ladd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mrs. Burgerdogboy was having a lunch biz meeting here and offered to bring me something home.\u00a0 (She is SO good to me!)\u00a0 I went with the pizza, simply because a) I haven’t had pizza in awhile, and 2) I had not tried Blitz’s and it would give me something to write about. I asked her… Continue reading Portland, OR – Blitz Ladd (for pizza)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16,34,22,26],"tags":[2724,2818,2857],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}