Pizza! Pizza!
We made pizza the other night. We've made pizza before, but we always bought the pre-made crusts. I've been afraid of pizza dough for some reason. Maybe it's all that tossing. Didn't Lucille Ball get into trouble trying to make pizza? She probably did, and I probably saw it, and I'm probably subconsciously scarred for life.
My cookbook says if I want dough for two twelve inch pizzas I mix
1 package yeast dissolved in 1/3 cup warm water
4 cups flour
2 Tbsp oil
2 tsp salt
Let it rise for a couple of hours, punch down, let rest 5 minutes, then spread with hands or roll out.
The dough looked really small, and we had company. I figured the company (young men) could eat a 12" pizza each, so I made a triple batch. It was HUGE after it rose. It rose again during cooking after being spread out into the cookie sheet pans. Next time I'll make the sides much thinner.
I used home canned marinara for the sauce (one pint per cookie-sheet sized pizza) but you can use 2 cups tomato sauce plus 2 tsp oregano.
The first one was pepperoni and bacon with a bag of mozarella cheese.
The second was pepperoni and frozen italian peppers from the garden with a bag of mozarella cheese.
I had enough dough left over to make a ton of breadsticks and I still fed a little dough to the dogs. And now I'm not afraid of pizza dough any more.
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posted by Leslie @ 12:16 PM
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oh yum! That looks good! I haven't made homemade pizza from scratch in many years. I shouldn't have stopped here before my lunch break ;-)!
Those look great. We used to do pizza from scratch too,but haven't in a long time.
I think we quit just about the time we had kids.
mmm...pizza. We love our homemade pizza here. We sold plenty at the farmers market last year, our best seller was a basil pesto/goat cheese pizza
Wow! Now that's my kind of pizza!
I recently discovered this dvd set at our local public library: http://www.videobread.com/ I had just bought my hand-crank flour mill from Lehman's, and figured I'd better learn how to make bread.
The video-bread guy is great! He covers white bread, wheat bread, rye bread, raisin bread, blueberry muffins, bran muffins, cinnamon rolls, pies, pizzas, honey buns, coffee cake - and that's all in the first two dvds! (He pitches them to libraries, so you might get lucky and find them locally, or available via interlibrary loan.)
My mouth waters at the mere thought of homemade pizza, though I haven't tried making any yet. I'm looking forward to making some next summer from my own garden. Now if only I had a goat for cheese and a hog for sausage and ham. :-)
James
Cyndy, you KNOW you need some pizza...
FC, having kids puts a stop to many (all?) things made from scratch. Time to dust off your pizza pan!
Steph, your pizza sounds divine. Makes my mouth water thinking about it (yes, really).
James, thanks for the tip on the bread DVDs. My husband got me a good bread book but a video can get things across that the written word sometimes cannot.
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