Mmmm... pizza!

Lately I've been seriously craving pizza. I normally enjoy trying out new pizzerias in my area, in search of that perfect crust+topping combination but being kind of broke and too lazy to drive out in search for the perfect pizza I decided that I'd make it myself. Now, you may be saying to yourself... "if you're too lazy to drive and buy pizza, how are you possibly un-lazy enough to spend time making your own pizza". Well, my first response would be... I am so dangerously addicted to baking and cooking that I don't even see it as work, and it actually invigorates me... and gives me more energy to power on through the rest of the day. Weird eh? And my second response would be... I have a bread machine to do most of the hard work for me! Yeah!

My trusty bread machine has pumped out some amazingly tasty sticky-buns, sweet rolls and other breads... so, the quest was on to make something on the more savory side. I was ready to find out how the machine would fair in making a pizza crust... and it did not disappoint.

Step 1 The Dough

What You'll Need (Yields 2 Pizza Crusts):
- 1 1/2 cups water (warm at around 90F)
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 1/4 cup bread flour (I used 3 1/4 cups AP flour + 1 cup whole wheat flour)
- 2 tsp active dry yeast


Method:
1. Measure ingredients into bread pan, in order listed
2. Select DOUGH setting.
3. Press START
4. Wait for bread to finish and COMPLETE SIGNAL to sound
(Method to continue on the following pages)

Comments

[mmdewberry]

That looks delicious! :) yum!

[diluded000]

I'm lazy and use frozen bread dough, letting it thaw then punching it down on end. A tip I picked up working at seven different pizza places is putting sugar in the marinara. BBQ sauce with black beans, green onions, grilled chicken, and bacon is a good combo as well.

[silverrock]

Woah... 7 different pizza places!! You are a veteran indeed... and the combo of BBQ sauce and black beans, with green onions, chicken and bacon *drool* SOUNDS DIVINE ^_^

[scoochmaroo]

These look awesome! Outline for us some of your favorite sauce + topping combinations?

[silverrock]

If you go to the step that shows the picture of all the sauces, I've attached image comments to the sauce bottles with little blurbs about what my fave combos are for each sauce :) Hope that helps!

[scoochmaroo]

Yes, it does!