Saturday, February 18, 2012

Home Made Pizza

Yes.

I know.

Pizza is EVIL!

Write it down.

2 1/2 Warm Water
2 Cups of Whole Wheat Flour
2 Cups of All Purpose Flour
2 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 Tsp of Yeast
2 Tsp of Evaporated Cain Juice (natural sugar)
2 Tsp Kosher Salt
Cheese (I actually forgot mozzarella cheese at the store, but had slices of Munster cheese and provolone cheese, so I used those as the cheese for the pizza)
4 tomatoes chopped up and squeezed
1/2 clove of garlic, chopped
1/2 half sweet onion
Kosher Salt
Fresh Pepper
Oregano
Big bunch of Spinach
Parmesan Cheese

Here's How

1.) Get out a bowl and fill it with the water.
2.) put in the yeast and stir it to dissolve the yeast
3.) Put in the olive oil, salt, and sugar and stir around
4.) Add the flour a little at a time until it resembles a blob of flour with a dough ball in the middle
5.) Kneed the dough, dusting it with flour as needed, until it can be formed into a ball
6.) Coat with more olive oil in a bowl and set aside covered with a "lent free" damp towel, let the dough rise for at least an hour or more
7.) while rising, place some olive oil in a pan (I used a cast iron plan) and saute onions first, as they cook down, add the garlic.  As the garlic cooks down, add the tomatoes, as the tomatoes cook down add the salt, pepper, and oregano.  As they cook down add the spinach.
*Set the oven to 450 degrees
8.) take the risen dough ball and flatten it out on a floured pizza pan
9.) Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on the flattened dough
10.) Spread the onion, garlic, tomato, spinach mixture onto the dough
11.) Put the cheese (provolone, Munster, or mozzarella, or mixture) on the crust
12.) place in the oven for... um... for about 20 minutes (check after 10, 15, then 20 minutes)- when the cheese looks a little brownish, it's done

As I am not a professional recipe maker or writer, I hope this is a good idea of what works.

And just for your information.  If you are ever running a 20 miler and start high-fiving the limbs of trees... you have lost it.  ((not that I have EVER done such a thing)).  

Blessings!

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