{"id":6878,"date":"2012-01-24T05:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2012-01-24T05:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T13:59:44","slug":"home-cookin-trader-joes-pizza-margherita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6878","title":{"rendered":"Home Cookin&#8217; &#8211; Trader Joe&#8217;s Pizza Margherita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TJ1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6885\" title=\"TJ1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TJ1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Trader Joe's Frozen Margherita Pizza\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s going to be an enigma until the day I die &#8211; the frozen pizza industry in the US is dominated by a few big players that probably account for 99% of all frozen pizzas sold; and then there is Trader Joe&#8217;s, which might account for &#8211; a miniscule proportion, yet their product stands alone for quality and taste.\u00a0 Why can&#8217;t the big guys make a pizza that tastes LIKE PIZZA?\u00a0\u00a0 Trader Joe&#8217;s can.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously reviewed some of their offerings, like their<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2010\/07\/trader-joes-frozen-wild-mushroom-truffle-flatbread\/\"> mushroom flatbread<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2010\/06\/home-cookin-trader-joes-frozen-pizza\/\">Pizza Olympiad<\/a>, and their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2010\/05\/home-cookin-trader-joes-mushroom-pizza\/\">French style&#8221; flatbread<\/a>.\u00a0 All superb.<\/p>\n<p>Their Pizza Margherita, made in Italy, is a straight-up cheese pie, topped with Mozzarella and Grana Cheeses.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the exotic ingredient list:\u00a0 flour, water, salt, yeast, oil, tomato, herbs, spices, and cheese.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, no extenders, preservatives, things that come from a lab.\u00a0 Pure food.\u00a0 Pure deliciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 oz pie is done in 8 minutes.\u00a0 The crisp is crusty, the cheese full-flavored.<\/p>\n<p>All of the TJ&#8217;s pizzas I have tried are imported, either from France or Italy.\u00a0 A there isn&#8217;t a single one of them that hasn&#8217;t reminded me of some special meal I have had in those respective countrys.\u00a0 Great job, TJ.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;big guys&#8221; could learn a\u00a0 thing or two from you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TJ2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6883\" title=\"TJ2\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TJ2.png\" alt=\"Trader Joe's Frozen Margherita Pizza\" width=\"319\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be an enigma until the day I die &#8211; the frozen pizza industry in the US is dominated by a few big players that probably account for 99% of all frozen pizzas sold; and then there is Trader Joe&#8217;s, which might account for &#8211; a miniscule proportion, yet their product stands alone&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6878\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Cookin&#8217; &#8211; Trader Joe&#8217;s Pizza Margherita<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[1500,3543,3548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878"}],"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=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}