Tonight we had homemade pizza for dinner. I think it might be the first time ever that pizza night was on a Tuesday. I’m wild and crazy like that. We almost always do it on Friday or Saturday depending on what’s going on. This past weekend was busy though so I didn’t get a chance. Since every time I have to make a meal now, I try to come up with something that I can use my new toy for, pizza was perfect tonight.
That’s right. I finally got my red kitchenaid mixer last week. As usual, my birthday gift didn’t make it to my birthday. Thank you, hubby! I would be remiss not to mention he got a fantastic deal on it too.
On with the pizza I make on pizza nights.
I use the Moosewood Cookbook calzone recipe for my dough, with modifications.
What you’ll need
(I double the amounts to make two pizzas)
1 cup water, wrist-temperature
3 cups flour **sometimes I do half whole wheat, half white other times I use all white depending on what I have at the time
Olive Oil, 1 tsp
3 tsp honey
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Dry yeast 1 1/2 tsp
What to do
Place water in a medium bowl, add yeast, honey; stir until everything dissolves. Whisk in salt and flour, and when it gets too thick, stir with hand. Knead in bowl 5 min. Brush 1 tsp olive oil over dough, cover, let rise until doubled.
Go outside and play for an hour or so while your dough does it’s thing.
When the dough is ready, punch it down and knead it for a little while, then split it into two sections and place each one on a sprayed baking sheet, let rest.
Over the next 10 minutes or so, I get my toppings ready and stop to spread the dough flat. It takes a few times of spreading and resting before it is all out on the sheet evenly with no holes. At least for me it does.
Once the dough is ready, I put my toppings on. I do one white pizza and one red pizza. The red one is just pizza sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni usually. For the white one, I start by cracking black pepper on the dough, then spreading olive oil on top. Top that with sauteed onion and garlic, then kalamata olives, artichoke hearts and feta cheese.
Bake at 450 for 18 minutes, switching the pizzas on their racks every 6 minutes.
Let cool, eat and enjoy!
Added to Kimba’s DIY Day.
I LOVE my KitchenAid mixer! I got it from my mom as a wedding gift 5 1/2 years ago and we use it all the time!
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Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.
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love the second comment : )
and you are living life on the edge making pizza on a Tuesday!!
I’m going to try your white pizza – sounds very good. Your crust is very similar to my recipe.
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If I hadn’t just eaten, I’d be getting the feta and olives out of the fridge right now to do us a white one – what a yummy post!
But you’re a bad, bad lady. I think I’m in love with that mixer and I have birthday money I haven’t used yet…
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Yum! We love our homemade pizza nights! I usually make one giant pizza and split the toppings up according to who wants what.
Love your mixer!
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“Top that with sauteed onion and garlic, then kalamata olives, artichoke hearts and feta cheese.” This? Heaven. Can’t wait to try it.
My dough is a little more . . . dough-y? I think than yours may be. More yeasty. I can’t wait to try your recipe. YUM.
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Megan, this isn’t a very dough-y crust, but that is how I like it. I had to tweak it a lot to get it this way b/c I like thinner, crispier crust.
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That looks DELICIOUS!!! And the mixer is divinely beautiful!!
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Oh, I love pizza.
And I love my Kitchen Aid!
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I got the same mixer last winter and I LOVE it!
Your pizza sounds really good.
-FringeGirl
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