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Pizza has always been a family favorite. With all of the options, in crust thickness and in toppings, I guarantee there is a pizza out there for everyone. In Elizabeth Gilbert’s, Eat Pray Love, Gilbert travels to Italy and finds Italy’s best town for pizza. She discovers the best restaurant for pizza in that town and gets to try a piece of this (the world’s best) pizza. How wonderful that must have tasted. In England, there is a pizza chain called Pizza Express. They have the most extensive list of pizza toppings I have ever seen. You can order pizza with eggs on top or raisins. Luckily, Pizza Express serves these pizzas in individual sizes. It would be difficult to choose one of these for the whole table.
When you live in Minnesota and you are feeding your kids and their friends, it is nice to have pizza available. In fact, if you live anywhere and are feeding anyone (kids or adults) it’s handy to have pizza. You can serve it as an appetizer for a party or as a meal served with salad for your family. If unexpected guests arrive, you can whip up a pizza to add to the meal and feed your guests. You will really impress them too if it is homemade and not just a from a frozen box.
It is really simple to prepare the dough ahead of time, cover it with a bit of olive oil, place it in a baggie, and freeze it for later. It’s so much nicer to have homemade pizza dough because it tastes better than frozen and it looks so much more rustic and beautiful when it’s finished.
You can even make your own pizza sauce and freeze or can it to have available all year. Otherwise, there are plenty of jars and cans of pizza sauce to buy at the grocery store. Then, all you will need are your toppings. Here is where you can be creative. Kids love this part. Actually, kids enjoy the entire pizza making process. You can top the pizza with sausage, pepperoni, green peppers and onions. Or, you may want to keep the meat off of your pizza and choose artichoke hearts, onions, olives, and red pepper. Either way, you will need to have lots of shredded cheese to add to the toppings. The combinations are limitless. Be creative and make it your own masterpiece.
Pizza Dough
Makes 1 Pizza (Multiply this recipe to make a bunch of dough balls for your freezer)
2 1/4 C. flour
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. yeast
¾ C. lukewarm water
3 Tbsp. olive oil
Mix the flour, salt and yeast together. Add in the water and mix again. Add the olive oil and mix. Sprinkle some more flour as needed. Knead and pull for four to five minutes. Wipe some oil in a bowl and place the ball of dough inside. Cover with plastic. You can put this in the freezer. When it comes out of the freezer, let it come to room temperature (about four hours). If you didn’t freeze it, allow it to sit, covered for 30 minutes. Then, roll it out, cover with sauce and toppings. Place in a preheated 350 degree oven. Bake for 15 minutes, or until crust reaches desired consistency (depending on thickness of crust). When it is finished, let it cool, cut and eat. Enjoy.
Making homemade pizza
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