It's Pizza and I Helped

P-I-Z-Z-A!!!

Another America's Test Kitchen win for my tummy! Along with being obsessed with America's Test Kitchen, I watch A LOT of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. He's made me want to eat charcuterie. My mouth wants yummy cured meats with cheese and bread. Living in such a foodie city one would think that one could find such delicious foods as these, but alas, it's been difficult, unless you want to spend loads of money at a fancy restaurant, which I don't at the moment. But there's a glimmer of hope and tastiness in the deli section of Whole Foods. That's where Moni and I purchased four thinly sliced $17.99 per lb Prosciutto di Parma with the intent of combining meat and pizza to make awesome P-I-Z-Z-A! Homemade sauce, homemade dough, toppings of your choice...






We made a salad too, but who wants to see that when you have yummy meat pizza to look at.

pizza!

So I've been craving some homemade pizza lately, and tonight I finally got around to making it. I tried out this really good dough recipe which probably would have risen better if my pizza didn't have so many toppings. oops...

Plus, I always put alot of sauce on my pizzas. The sauce I made was basically onions, garlic, and bell peppers sauteed, then tomato sauce is added and spices until it tastes good. Very scientific indeed...

On my pizza, I put spinich, mushrooms, olives and fresh basil, diced tomatoes, and feta cheese after it was baked. On Peter's pizza it was pepperoni, salami, mozzarella, mushrooms, olives and parmesan cheese. Peter needs around 3 million calories a day when he's weight lifting so I basically add meat and cheese to his portion of anything I cook.

Here is my pizza before the oven!

And here is Peter's pizza after the oven!


All in all, it was delicious beyond my wildest imagination! Here is the pizza dough recipe I used.


Pizza Dough


INGREDIENTS
1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
2 cups bread flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons white sugar


Basically you dissolve the yeast in the warm water and let it stand for 10-20 min. Then mix everything together and let it rise to double in size. Then you roll out, put on your toppings and throw it in the oven! The recipe I saw said to let the pizza bake for 20 min, but I just left it in there until the crust looked good.