Hi everybody! I've been lurking here for a while but this is my first time posting. I can't begin to express how much I love this forum. Great news about restaurants and stimulating conversation to boot!
Anyway. I'm wondering if any of you know of a place to get tomato pie in Louisville. A friend of mine who lives in PA was raving about it. I'd never heard of such a thing and turned to Google. This led me to a Paula Deen recipe that included fresh tomatoes, cheese, and a cup of mayonnaise (and a few other things) in a deep-dish pie shell. I should have known that this was not at all the same thing since my friend mentioned that hers came from an Italian restaurant, and Paula Deen (to say nothing of recipes involving cups of mayonnaise in pie shells) is anything but Italian. But I made this monstrosity anyway. It was... Well, let's just say that my boyfriend and I both had seconds, and about half an hour later we were wishing we'd never made the thing. I started calling it mayonnaise pie which thoroughly disgusted my boyfriend, and it is now known in our house simply as M.P.
Further research revealed that Italian tomato pie is absolutely nothing like this. It basically sounds a lot like pizza but with just a little bit of cheese sprinkled on top after baking, and it's typically served at room temperature. I might try making it this weekend, but I wondered if there was some place in town that really does it right. It sounds like it's very popular in the northeast, but I've never seen it around here.
