Tasty (or Not) Tuesday (Eve Helps) #13. Day 98

It’s time for a Pizza Party!!  We’re all big fans of the stuff, so I figured we’d give it a whirl.  Maybe not the most healthy dinner, but sometimes you just need a pizza.  When you’re making pizza from scratch, it’s pretty easy to customize dinner for each kid, so I thought I’d let them choose their own toppings tonight.

 

 

And waiting for what seemed like forever (10 minutes) for the yummiest smelling pizza ever…

I’m going to list the cheese pizza recipe below and you can add as many goodies as you want to your recipe.  Here we go…

Cheese Pizza

Ingredients

Crust.

• 4c all purpose flour
• 1 envelope active dry yeast
• 1/2c lukewarm water
• 1/2c shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/4c olive oil
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 1tsp salt
• 1tsp black pepper
• 1/2tsp garlic powder
• 1/2tsp onion powder

Sauce.

• 1  15 oz can tomato sauce
• 1  6 oz can tomato paste
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1/4tsp garlic powder
• 1/4c onion minced
• 1 Tbsp dried oregano
• 1tsp sugar
• salt to taste

Toppings.

• 1c shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1c cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
  
• pizza sauce (recipe below)
• fresh oregano

 

 

Instructions

Crust.

1. In a mixing bowl add the flour and make a well in the middle.
2. Pour 1/2 cup lukewarm water.
3. Sprinkle the yeast on top.
4. Stir to combine the yeast with water and leave at room temperature until foamy.
5. Continue mixing after adding the shredded cheese, oil, salt. sugar, pepper, garlic and onion powder.
6. Slowly pour 3/4c water to form an elastic dough that comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
7. Take the dough out and place it in an oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature until doubled in volume.
8. Heat the oven to 450F.
9. Roll the pizza dough out and brush lightly with olive oil.
10. Spread out the pizza sauce (recipe below).
11. Spread the remaining ingredients.
12. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over pizza.
13. Bake the pizza in the preheated oven until golden, for 10-12 minutes depending on the size.
14. Enjoy while warm!

Sauce.

1. In a medium skillet heat one tablespoon olive oil over medium heat.
2. Add minced onion and garlic and saute until the onion is translucent and tender.
3. Remove from heat and set aside. 
4. In a blender or food processor combine all the ingredients including the onion and garlic and pulse until the sauce is smooth.

 

Chef Eve says…

 

Was it easy?  Yes.  It was easy because um hehehe because all I had to do was hmmm cut onions, tomatoes, do the dough, decorate the pizza and that was all. Was it quick? No.  Because it took a long time for stuff to cook and stuff.  Was it tasty?  Yes.  Except for the tomatoes.  Let’s see what the taste testers had to say…

Very yummy pizza.  We absolutely loved it.  The crust was awesome and turned out better than I would have ever expected.  We all agreed that the tomatoes did not help the pizza at all.  They didn’t taste like they fit with the taste of the pizza.  I would probably leave them off next time.  The sauce was enough and did the trick. This was the very first time I have ever tried making pizza from scratch and I have to admit I was a little scared.  I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome and I think Eve is convinced now that she wants to open her own pizzeria so she can make it any time she wants 🙂