MOD Pizza: Creating Delicious Custom Pizzas...and Salads!! #WeekendGourmetDinesOut #MODPizza #makeityourown #pizza #salad

The Weekend Gourmet team recently visited a MOD Pizza location here in San Antonio to create a signature individual artisan-style pizza...and a delicious entree salad. If you're not familiar with MOD Pizza, they offer more than 40 creative pizza and salad toppings. Even better? You pick as many toppings as you want for one set price! That means there are endless options to create whatever flavor profile you're craving every time you visit! It's really fun to go through the line and assemble your individual pizza or salad creation. Whether you prefer traditional toppings...or you crave more over-the-top creative options...you can assemble your personal masterpiece!

Your first step is to pick your crust -- including 6" mini, 11" thin or thick, cauliflower, and gluten-friendly. Then choose from seven different sauces to top your crust. The final step is to top your pizza with a variety of cheeses and other toppings. The friendly MOD Pizza staff assembles your pizza in front of you as you make your way down the line. I loved seeing exactly how my pizza was assembled from start to finish!

The Weekend Gourmet's custom pizza started with a thin 11" crust, creamy white sauce, mozzarella, salami, mild sausage, spicy chicken sausage, spinach, artichoke hearts, fresh garlic, and black olives (on half).

Once your pizza is topped, it heads to a screaming hot 800℉ stone pizza oven ... where it bakes to perfection in just 3-4 minutes. Once your pizza comes out of the oven, it can be drizzled with one of eight delicious finishing sauces. However, we opted for pesto and spicy sri-rancha cups on the side for dipping our pizza slices. 

I appreciate that MOD also offers its customers a healthy create-your-own salad option! I eat a lot fewer carbs these days, so salads are a staple of my daily food intake. I was easily able to craft a delicious healthy salad at MOD.

My Greek-inspired salad included chopped Romaine lettuce, feta cheese, red onion, cucumber, diced tomatoes, Canadian bacon, and diced grilled chicken. I drizzled my salad with their deliciously unique Greek Herb & Tahini Dressing. So good!

It was incredibly easy for us to create a pizza AND a salad...which was a perfect lunch combo for two people. I enjoyed a slice or two of the pizza, and my social media assistant enjoyed a portion of my salad. The best part? We BOTH left full and happy! 

Don't feel like creating a personalized pizza? No problem! MOD offers several curated MOD Classics on the menu that feature traditional pizza (and salad) combinations. For example: Mad Dog is a meaty MOD Classic that features mozzarella, pepperoni, mild sausage, ground beef, and red sauce. 

The perfect sweet ending to your meal is with one of MOD's cream-filled No Name Cakes. They come in their signature chocolate...and seasonal flavors like strawberry. 

MOD Pizza was founded in Seattle in 2008. There are more than 500 MOD locations across the country. To find a location near you to create YOUR pizza or salad masterpiece, check out their handy online Location Finder feature. 

Disclosure: MOD Pizza hosted The Weekend Gourmet team for a complimentary lunch visit to create our customized pizza and salad creations. All opinions expressed are solely my own.