BY POPULAR REQUEST - PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE

I had a couple of you ask for the dough recipe for the pizza so here you go. This is a bread machine recipe.

 PIZZA DOUGH:
1 CUP BEER
1 TABLESPOON SHORTENING
1 TABLESPOON SUGAR
1 TEASPOON SALT
3 CUPS FLOUR (in Canada the measure is 2 3/4 cups only)(I used whole grain...a little dry but good and healthy)
1 1/4 TEASPOONS YEAST

Put ingredients into breadmaker in the  order above. Use a dough/pasta setting and let it go until the cycle is complete. Remove from machine to a floured surface and knead in more flour if dough is too sticky. Not too much. Either roll out your dough now or wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
I cut this dough into 4 pieces and they make a nice size individual pizza each.
You can bake this on a lightly greased pan sprinkled with cornmeal but we use our pizza stone that is so well seasoned we don't need to grease it at all.
Bake at 425 degrees for 15-25 minutes depending on the size of you pizza. I like mine golden brown.

The dough will rise in the fridge so make sure you have it well wrapped because like the Blob that overtook the world this will happen to your refrigerator too. Quite a shock when you open the door and the giant ball of dough grabs you and pulls you inside.....

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FOODIE FRIDAY - PIZZA

If this is Friday it must be time for Foodie Friday and a visit to Michael Lee at Designs by Gollum.

I like to make a batch of pizza dough in the bread maker. One batch makes 4 personal pizzas. I wrap them up and they can sit in the fridge until I need them. They need to be well wrapped because they will rise up and take over the whole darned fridge. One day when I opened the door 2 of them came falling out at me because they had expanded a lot.

This one is a whole wheat crust.

I had red peppers, red onions, fresh basil, fresh tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts and a tomato sauce with a bit of hot pepper flakes in it.

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FOODIE FRIDAY: Pizza Hand Delivered

Designs by Gollum is running a Foodie Friday meme today. Drop by and bring a coffee to check out the yummy foods showing there today. Leave a comment so we know you dropped by.

Pizza is one of our favorite foods. My son takes his 'za very seriously. Here he started with a pre-made crust. I often make the dough but this time he bought it. Using a bottled pizza sauce he then jazzed it up a bit by adding Garlic Tabasco Sauce and chopped fresh jalapenos to the sauce.
We love spicy food here so that was just the base layer. Next there was a combination of Mozzarella and Aged Cheddar cheese. The dark bits on there are pieces of a very hot pepperoni and of course there had to be sliced jalepenos on top too.
Stick that bad boy into a hot oven for a bit and voila. I am having pizza for lunch...hand served by my darling son. Nothing could taste better than when your son cooks something and shares it with you.
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