Pizza Pizza!!

So as I have stated before one of the best perks about my job is that I get free food. Lately we have had an influx of pizza toppings being shown to some customers. So what do you do with mass amounts of cheese and pepperoni, besides eat it together as is... You make pizza!!

So I don't keep a stash of yeast so I jumped online to get a yeast free pizza dough. I tend to go to www.allrecipes.com or www.cooks.com, they have a wide assortment of recipes and comments on each dish.

Main Dish: Pizza
Prep: Pizza Dough
Prep: Pizza Sauce

Pizza dough
2 C All-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2/3 C water
Olive oil
Semolina flour

Preheat the oven to 425 F. Mix AP Flour, Salt, and Baking Powder together until well blended. Add water and mix thoroughly until a nice dough is formed. Once dough is formed knead for about 2 min. You don't want to OVER knead the dough because that will over work the gluten and make the dough tough and chewy (Note: All doughs will do this).

Press the dough out to form any shape you want your pizza to be. Since the dough does not have yeast it will not be the fluffy easily pliable dough you see people flipping around in the air. Since it is a stiffer dough I simply pressed it out on the counter to flatten. Sprinkle a little semolina flour on your pizza pan, if you dont have semolina you can use corn flour, corn meal, or just regular flour. The purpose of this is to just make it easier to lift off the pan after baking. Move the pizza dough from the counter to the pan, continue flattening if needed. Flatten out to 1/4 inch, dough will rise.

Using a pastry brush or spoon spread olive oil on top of pizza, this will help to keep the sauce from absorbing into the crust. Par-bake the crust in the pre-heated oven for 12 minutes. Remove pizza and top with sauce. You can use a canned pizza sauce or make your own. I like to take Mammaw's stewed tomatoes and puree them with some garlic, spices (of the Italian region), salt, and pepper. Once sauced layer a thin coat of cheese, then some toppings, then more cheese. Place pizza back in oven for 8-10 minutes to melt cheese and heat up meat.

This is the pizza all topped and staring to bake.

And here it is ready for my belly!! YUM YUM!!


This is a very easy dish and great for kids. Altogether you are looking at around 30 min to fix and bake.

You can also try it as a calzone or "hot pocket" by using the dough recipe and just encasing the toppings inside. If you decide to go this route simply follow the recipe, but DO NOT par-bake the crust.

Hope yall enjoy!!