Pizza with recipe #club100

Everyone seems to be making pizza, so I thought that I would join in.

Here we go. My homemade pizza. Notice the far end has no cheese? This is because my husband will not eat cheese of any kind. Honestly, after 3 decades of marriage, he has sucked the life out of me.

I started by making some dough. I thought that a base of focaccia bread would be a good start.

The recipe for the dough is:

1 and 1/3rd cup warm water
1 pkg or two teaspoons of instant yeast
1 tsp sugar
3 and 1/2 cup of flour
1/4 cup of olive oil
1 teaspoon salt

stir the yeast and sugar into the warm water and let it stand for 10 minutes. Once foamy, gradually add oil, salt and flour. I use a stand mixture with a dough hook, but you can also knead the dough by hand. Place the kneaded dough in a greased bowl and over with a damp cloth. Let the dough rise in a warm place for 1 hour or more. It should double in size.

Once your dough has risen, remove from the bowl. You will now want to use a rolling pin to shape the dough into a pizza shell.

Once you have rolled out the dough into the shape that you want, you should let it rise again for 20 minutes or so. I have a "bread proof" setting in my oven, so I like to rise the dough in there. The temp is 95 degrees F.

While waiting for the second rise of the dough, I make the pizza sauce.

homemade pizza sauce is very easy to make. I took some tomatoes and peeled them. If you put the tomatoes in a bowl and then pour boiling water on them, the peels slide right off.

After chopping the tomatoes, I put them in a pan over medium heat. I added some onion, garlic, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning (oregano, marjoram etc), a bit of paprika, a teaspoon of sugar, and about 1/4 cup of olive oil.

I cooked the sauce down until it was thick. I deglazed the pan with a little red wine, which I think adds a nice flavour, but this is optional.

Sadly, I discovered that I did not really have much in the way of toppings. I sliced up a little more onion and found some ham in the fridge. I used a 'tex-mex' grated cheese that I had. I would have liked to put some peppers and mushrooms on it, or some pepperoni slices. At the very least, I would have liked to use some mozzarella. Even some pineapple would have gone well with the ham, but I didn't have anything on hand. This, after all, was just a pizza that I decided to bake late a night. Next time I will prepare in advance.

After my dough had risen the second time, I spread my pizza sauce on it. Then I added the ham, onion, and finally, the cheese.

I felt a bit sad putting this lousy lunch meat ham on my beautiful pizza dough, but here it is. Next time will be pepperoni.

I baked it in the oven at 400 degrees F for about 15 to 20 minutes. Notice how sad the cheeseless side looks. Husbands will be husbands.

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