PIZZA FOR SUPPER

On February 2 Elaine Adair posted a blog entry on Inedible Pizza.  (elaineadairpieces.blogspot.ca)  She had bought a frozen pizza, prepared it, took one bite and declared it inedible.  Hubby said the same.  I commented that it is not that hard to make your own homemade pizza--tastes wonderful and is real food!  A few other commentators mentioned that also.  That set me to thinking about making pizza some night for supper and today it happened.

I made the dough for the crust in the breadmaker, rolled it out and put it on a round of parchment paper on a pizza pan while waiting for the pizza stone to heat up in the oven.  Toppings include mild chunky salsa, bits of Sweet Italian sausage, red pepper, onion bits, chopped mushrooms, pineapple and, of course, mozzarella cheese--lots of it!  The crust was pretty big and puffy.  So big and puffy that I cut off a strip and made some cute little curls.  It was so loaded up with toppings that I couldn't move it from this pizza pan to the hot pizza stone and had to put it in the oven just this way.

  The pizza came out of the oven looking gorgeous.  It had been in for 20 minutes at 425º and then under the broiler for just a few minutes.

 

We ate it while watching the 6 p.m. news, with the 7 day weather forecast.  It's warming up!  The weather, that is.

We each had 2 1/2 slices and feel pretty stuffed.  Here's what left, already put into the freezer for a snack some time in the future.

 

Really wasn't all that much work.  The Dear One declared it THE BEST PIZZA I'VE EVER EATEN!  Well, that was worth the effort!