Monday, August 2, 2010

Rustic Crust and American Flatbread Review and Giveaway

I love pizza.  Just about any kind of pizza.  Cheap, expensive, homemade, takeout, delivery, frozen, I like it all.  Luckily, so does my family.  In fact, Joey asks me if he can have pizza for dinner every night.  Imagine his excitement last week when my answer was, "YES!  We can have pizza tonight!"

I made the pizza we had myself.  Well, no, actually I didn't make it myself.  I assembled it using already-made ingredients.  I was recently asked to review two delicious products: Rustic Crust and American Flatbread Frozen Pizzas, which came in quite handy for Joey's requests for pizza.


I used my Rustic Crust coupon at our local Whole Foods Market and decided on the Cheesy Herb variety.  Anything that has "cheesy" in it's name is a go in my book.


I loaded it with some sauce, cheese, and mini pepperoni.  Here's a shot before it went in the oven:
Ten minutes later, dinner was ready:


It was a hit.  Katelyn licked the plate, Joey asked for more, Ron ate 3 pieces, and Olivia pushed all the pieces into the corner of her tray, but ate the crust with delight.



A few days later we tried the American Flatbread Frozen Pizza for lunch.  (Joey loves this whole blogging thing because it allows him to get pizza twice in 1 week!)  Also at Whole Foods, I didn't have much of a choice, so I took the only kind that was in stock: Ionian Awakening.  (3 other varieties were sold out!)  This individual sized pizza has red onions, garlic, fresh rosemary, feta cheese, and olives on it.  I'm not a huge fan of olives, but I was willing to pick them off for the sake of reviewing what sounded like a fabulous product.  And it surely was.  This tasted like a real greek pizza that you would order in a restaurant.  The toppings tasted fresh, the crust was crispy but not overly so, and the pizza had lots of cheese on it.  Even Joey liked it despite it's unique flavors that are quite different from his usual peanut butter and jelly lunches.
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70 comments:

  1. We go to the restaurant every year when we go up to VT. It was their first restaurant and one of the places they make the frozen pizza! I've never tried it frozen but I might have to now :)

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  2. My favorite kind of pizza is pepperroni.

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  3. Pineapple pizza is my favorite!
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  7. I love Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. Mmmm

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  8. My favorite is Pepperoni Lovers from Pizza Hut.

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  11. Mine is pepperoni, Olives and Mushrooms with pesto sauce.Thanks for the chance.
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  12. I love just about any kind of pizza, but if given the choice, I'll go with sausage, mushroom and black olive...with lots of cheese, of course. Thanks for the chance to win the prize pack! (krstrpp at hotmail dot com)

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  16. My favorite pizza has pepperoni and lots of veggies on it.

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  20. my fav is pineapple & canadian bacon

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    I like my Pizza loaded. all the meats and veggies you can fit on it. No cheese

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  25. I love green peppers on thin crust.

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  26. I am boring... my fave is cheese.

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  27. I love cheese pizza, but the Organic Roasted Vegetable from rustic crust sounds delish.

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  28. I've never heard of American Flatbread, but their Sundried Tomato and Mushroom sounds great!

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  29. With the Garden exploding with goodness... roasted zucchini and tomato with Parmesan. Heavenly

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  30. I love a roasted veggie pizza.

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  31. Cheese, muishrooms, black olives, green peppers, onions, sausage, etc! Thank you!

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  36. My fave to date is a create your own from a local family resturaunt. We get pepperoni, pineapple, green bell peppers and sun-dried tomatoes. YUM trinitygsd at yahoo dot com

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  37. I love pepperoni on my pizza!
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  38. Local pizza shop called Paoli's, cheese pizza with pepperoni, olives, mushroom and onions

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  51. i love veggie pizza
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  52. I don't think I have a favorite pizza. I like everything even anchovies.

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  55. I love pineapple and onion pizza...yummm

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