Growing up my family loved pizza.
We either ordered pepperoni with peppers and feta cheese, an incredible chicken pizza with shaved potato slices, or we made our own.
We would buy our dough from the grocery store, flatten it out on our big pizza pan, and top it with everything we could find on hand. Usually a combination of pepperoni, feta, and a ton of vegetables. Friday night was pizza and movie night and all of my friends envied our big gourmet pizzas and selection of movies.
One time I was allowed to make my own pizza, and as I slid the dough onto the tray I created a big mountain of dough. Rather than toss it out, we baked the pizza, deemed it “Gigi’s Mountain Pizza” and it ended up being one of the best pizzas I’ve ever eaten.
This week has been long, stressful, and trying. I’ve had a lot of big decisions to make, a few too many drinks with friends, and more than a few tears. (Fit June was definitely pushed to the side as I focused all of my energy on figuring things out and having a bit of fun in the meantime.)
Saturday, all I wanted to do was order a pizza and watch movies. Total comfort food stemming from some of my favourite childhood memories.
So we ordered the one pizza in the city I’ll trust to be delivered to my door the way I like it. Gluten-free crust, organic chicken, bbq sauce, asiago, portabello mushrooms and prime quality bacon make up my favourite slice at Toronto’s Magic Oven. This pizza is not cheap, but as someone who eats pizza maybe once or twice a year, it’s totally worth it.
I love the thin rice crust, the tangy bbq tomato sauce and the high quality ingredients. We generally order a large pizza and share it over the day. It’s filling, delicious, and ultimately comforting.
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Hope you are enjoying a relaxing weekend! I tried Magic Oven for the first time yesterday – spelt crust with tons of veggies and pesto. So delicious! I can see why it’s your go-to place
Mmm your pizza sounds fabulous too! I love pesto on pizza!
I would kill to be able to get gluten-free pizza here! Because yes, some times DO call for pizza … and for me, it’s then worth all that tiredness after! Hope you could figure things out, Gillian! Have a fantastic new week!
Thanks Marie-Sophie, I’ll try to come up with a recipe so you can make it at home too
Yay, that would be awesome! Thank you!
This pizza looks delicious. I am yet to try Magic Oven! I had a similar pizza to this at a restaurant up North, they had a gluten free pizza with sausage, bbq sauce, mozzarella and mushrooms. I always crave it!
That pizza sounds amazing! Sausage would make it even better! I might have to try and create that on my own!
in nate’s wise words to me ‘don’t beat yourself up over it’ i had a bunch of ice cream with crumbled resees cups!! this weekend at my parents and had a terrible stomach ache over it. honestly, prob haven’t had real ice cream/candies in like 6 months so it was a bit of a shock to my system. i always find it more difficult in summer months for clean eating because there are ALWAYS celebrations, parties and picnics filled with junky stuff haha. but i keep in perspective there is a season for everything and ill balance it out in the week. glad you enjoyed your pizza
Yep, no guilt or stress allowed round here anymore. Was a great pizza pie! And summer months are definitely about letting go sometimes. x
I’ve wanted to try Magic Oven… I used to live a 30-second walk away from one of their locations. I’m sure it’s worth it, but the prices are crazy! I like your choice of toppings…
Totally crazy prices. I always joke about my $40 pizza (more like $34 but STILL). Totally worth it for a full day of grabbing big slices from the box and picking off huge chunks of bacon and chicken. Ok now I want another one.