My Home Made Pizza

For many years I felt that pizza is something you ordered out or had delivered. Recently I broke the pizza DNA code and have been making home-made pizza that is to die for.

You need a pizza stone for your oven; I got the cheapest clay stone from Marshalls that cost $7.00 aqnd have used it many times.

Dissolve 1 packet of instant yeast in a cup of warm (not hot but tap-warm) water. Throw in a bit of sugar for the little babies to start eating and burping for 6-8 minutes.

In a mixer bowl put 2 cups of bread flour and 1/2 a cup of whole wheat flour, a tsp of salt, 3 tsp olive oil and...1/4 cup of minced onion. Add the yeast/water mixture, 2 tsp honey and mix with hook attachment for 1 minute before scraping sides and mixing for 2 more minutes.

Add 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour at a time (every 2 minutes) until the mixture begins to clean the sides (not so sticky anymore). Once it reaches this stage flour your hands and pick up the dough; place in a greased bowl (olive oil is best) and make sure to oil top to bottom until well-coated (not dripping).

Cover and let rise for 60-90 minutes (double in size). Then turn oven to 450F and while it is heating up take your stone, cover with a bit of corm masa harina. Pick up the dough and turn in hands to strech a bit. Place on the stone and roll out (you can flour or oil roller) to cover stone.

Place 1/2 jar of Whinn-Dixie brand pizza sauce on top of the rolled out dough, add veggies (onions, jalapenos, mushrooms etc), cheese (Mozzarella) and turkey pepperoni on top.

Place in oven for 8-10 minutes before turning the stone to get even heat on both sides. At this point the oven should reach 450F and you can add 10-12 minutes to your timer. Look at your pizza at the end; if the crust is golden brown, not too much fluid in the venter you have a winner.

Take it out, cut into 8 slices and enjoy after it cools a bit...