Thursday, July 19, 2007

How To Make Awesome Pizza

Until recently, my idea of awesome pizza was "lots of cheese, almost burnt". Also, there needed to be a way to hold the cheese without burning yourself, so I needed crust. I wasn't sure what the sauce is for, but tradition demanded its inclusion. Tradition definitely did not demand the inclusion of members of the plant kingdom.

However, I have changed my boring pizza ways. I now make gourmet pizza on a weekly basis. The secret....REVEALED!

Crust Ingredia

  • 3 cups flour
  • Between 1 cup and 1.25 cups water, depending on the weather
  • A dash of olive oil
  • Two pinches of basil
  • A generous helping of yeast
  • 1 bread machine with a "dough" setting
  • 1.5 hours
Stir all these ingredia until you have a bunch of dough. Meanwhile, dice a couple sausage patties a 2.25 oz can of black olives (sliced) a tomato (The role of the tomato has been played by an understudy in tonight's performance due to a grocery malfunction.) And some pepperoncini: I think the rest of this recipe speaks for itself. I'm still using boring old Sauce in a Can, though. I need a good pizza sauce recipe.

5 comments:

  1. What temperature should the oven be? And about how long should the pizza be in there?

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  2. I like a crunchy pizza with a chewy center, so I tend to err on the side of too hot. 400°F gives me a fairly well-done pizza while 425°F gives me a slightly underdone-on-the-inside one. I usually set it at 415.

    I leave it in until the cheese is significantly browned, but not across the whole pizza. It's a little tricky to judge this since the light inside the oven (even using the light inside the oven) is different than the kitchen.

    I don't have a pizza stone, so even if I didn't like browned cheese I'd need to leave it in about that long just to get the crust done.

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  3. Here's a sauce recipe. It's not mine and I haven't made it, so I don't know how it goes.

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  4. Embarrassment. Obviously the URL in the above comment should not have been your site. The real sauce recipe. A thousand apologies.

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  5. Pretty sure my wife won't let me get away with garlic. Or onion, for that matter. But the rest sounds good.

    Of course, she says she loves the (store-brand!) Sauce in a Can. Whaddya gonna do?

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