Pizza Dough Recipe - If you have a bread machine you should try this!

February had been cold and good time to try out my bread making skill and sometimes lack there of... the oven will help warm the house. 

Pizza was last night . I will get to the recipe in a bit. 

The rustic bread the other day turned out fabulous and Dude has now requested it as his sandwich bread from now until he gets sick of it. This is a no- knead bread that you bake in a dutch oven. 

A fail this week would be the dinner rolls.  It started out just fine...

I put them behind the woodstove to rise from the heat... but what happened was the dog figured they were there for the taking and ate 3 of them. 

Yep, when I yelled he spit one out on the floor, silly chap. 

Now the Pizza Dough. I had never used the dough cycle on my machine and it was time I learned.  It turned out so well, now, I want to make cinnamon rolls!

Preheat oven 450*F

Put the ingredients in the machine in this order (I know it sounds weird and reverse but it works). 

2 teaspoons dried granulated yeast

3 cups bread flour (I am using this more and more instead of regular all purpose flour)

1 teaspoon salt 

2 tablespoons sugar 

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 cup warm water

plus 2 tablespoons water

Select dough cycle, on mine it was #9 or 10.

Let go through the cycle. 

Then I just left it in the machine for 20 more minutes and it had risen to the top.

Remove, knead a little. Then flour an area and roll out into your shape. 

I sprayed a baking sheet and sprinkled some cornmeal on it. 

Transfer rolled out dough to a baking sheet.

I like my crust thin and crispy so I poked the crust with a fork and baked for 5 minutes first. 

Then add a tiny bit of olive oil over the top,  I used our homemade canned pizza sauce next and add whatever cheese and toppings  you like. 

We used up leftover cheeses , all kinds... cheddar, provolone, pepperjack, swiss and cream cheese. It tasted great.  Dude added pepperoni on his and mine was kalamata olives, onions, and sundried tomatoes (from the garden last year) . There are so many variations swimming in my head!

Then bake the whole thing for 10-12 minutes.

Sooo good and filling!

peace --pizza!

Creating cutting boards and pizza

We had a busy morning yesterday! Dude made a cutting board from scraps from the butcher block island counter top he built last year.  Biscuit jointed, cut to length, routed and finished with food grade mineral oil. He left the oil on for 24 hours and then coated with bee's wax - Clarks finishing oil and finish wax .  He also routed the one he made for the island. They both turned out gorgeous!

Pizza

Friday pizza bug started in the morning with dough rising on the stove.  We start with this recipe at 730am...gotta have this all done before heading to work at noon... it seemed to do the trick and was just right for us.

Dough had risen and been rolled out. Next we mixed some our garlic we pulled up in the fall with olive oil and slathered all over the dough.

Then I went out to the greenhouse and got some salad greens and spinach and gave it a bed on the pizza.  Found some cheese in the fridge... a little mozzarella, fresh parmesan, and cheddar.

Then some dried tomatoes from our pantry -poured boiling water over and it was waiting for it's turn on the pizza- they look wonderful. Sprinkled with our dried oregano and basil. Drizzle the whole thing with balsamic vinegar.  

Bake for 12-15 minutes at 425*.

Second pizza had the same base of all but the dried tomatoes. Add a ton of mozzarella cheese and parmesan. Topped with pepperoni.  Guess who's that pizza is ? Yep, Dude's.

They both turned out very good but Dude ended up liking the veggie one better and ate the pepperoni pizza for breakfast saying, pepperoni pizza is better cold and in the morning.  oiy.

From our garden and pantry - garlic, lettuce, spinach, basil, and oregano...and can you imagine, next time with goat cheese we will make? ohmy.