Monday, April 2, 2012

Third Times The Charm

I am definitely not alone when I say that pizza is one of my favorite foods. It one of those dishes that most everyone has had and most everyone likes it. It is also something that I have always been afraid to make, just because I had gotten it in my head that anything I made would not be nearly good enough. I decided that if I am making bread I have no business to bake then I might as well try to make pizza. I made the crust the day before. I made enough for six small crusts.
 I put five in the freezer and one in the refrigerator. The next day I took the dough out of the refrigerator and let it sit out and puff up a little for two hours.I then spread it out pretty thin on this disposable pizza pan I bought and the grocery. I set the oven at 550 because that is the highest temperature on my stove. Pizza are supposed to be cooked quickly at very high temperatures. I had made tomatoes sauce a couple days before so I used that for the sauce and about a cup of mozzarella. The first pizza I made I just used mozzarella. This pizza turned out to be very undercooked on the bottom because the disposable pan didn't get hot. It wasn't so great. So I tried again the next day and I mixed some Italian Seasoning in with the cheese. This pizza was better cooked but the cheese lacked salt and didn't taste too much like anything. The third night I mixed in a quarter cup of romano cheese and a little Parmesan and the Italian Seasoning. This time I used my stoneware pan. It was perfect. The crust was perfectly crispy, the cheese was just salty enough and the seasoning gave it a great taste. It was just as good as pizza from a restaurant. 





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