Mompaca…

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.