Tag: home made

I love pizza.

Luckily, living in New York I have access to really good pizza at all hours of the day.

But sometimes I want to make my own pizza with my own toppings and mostly no tomato sauce.

I will teach you a very easy way to make pizza at home with a little cheating.

I make my own dough often and I will share the recipe one of these days.  More often though, I buy pizza dough from my local pizzeria.  I get a nice amount for $5/-

That makes a medium size pizza.

I encourage you to buy a pizza stone – it makes a whole lot of difference mimicking the high heat of the pizza oven.

I heat the stone at 450 degrees.

Then I spread the dough on the hot stone.  You don’t have to put any oil – the pizza will release easily.  Sometimes I do sprinkle some corn meal – it gives a lovely crunch to the crust.

Drizzle some olive oil and kosher or coarse salt.  Then the sky is the limit.  I like to top my pie with roasted peppers, onions, sausage or pepperoni.  Most importantly, whatever you put on the pizza – add some freshly grated parmesan cheese.

Mozzarella of course if always a great thing.

Cook for about 10 minutes in the 450 degrees oven and you have piping hot pizza.

Once you have the dough, you can always make calzones, individual pizzas or focaccia which is thicker and chewier.

I hope you try this – you will love it.

Until I eat again!