Who Needs Pizza Hut

Wednesday’s are pepperoni pizza for dinner. Kids, you told me it was so good. I think my pizza is so much better than any pizza place.

I made the dough using a Fleischman’s Yeast recipe I found on the web. I like this particular pizza dough recipe because of the addition of sugar to the flours when mixing. A bread machine was used to mix the dough and to provide a nice warm environment for the dough to rise. I think the 1 tsp. of sugar in this particular recipe adds a richness to the taste of the crust. Some of my other recipes exclude sugar.

The dough was allowed to rise for about 2 hours. Only because we had piano lessons today and I did not have the time to complete the pizza before leaving the house. The dough was made with white bleached flour and wheat flour. I punched the dough down once and let it rise on more time.

The dough was spread on the cookie sheet and left to rise for a few minutes before baking the crust in an oven at 450 degrees for 12 minutes. I took out the crust and added the toppings while it was still hot.

Toppings:

3/4 of the pizza was pepperoni, Mozzarella, Prego spaghetti sauce. I always put a layer of cheese on the bottom and then again on the top. I found out last week that if the cheese is not added to the bottom than the pepperoni and sauce slide off the crust. [usually you guys help me with the toppings but today I was too hungry to wait]

1/4 of the pizza was pepperoni, cheese, roma tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, papaya, pineapple.

The picture is not the prettiest but it was one of my better pizzas. I usually make a pizza at our house every Wednesday.

~ by aznos4040 on May 7, 2008.