Homemade Pizza....Yum!

So like any other woman I love cheese and bread! Pizza is my hands down favorite food in the WORLD!!

So many options and varieties and they all involve gooey stringy cheese and yummy fluffy crust! Yes....I have a little bit of a thing for pizza. If it was up to me I would eat pizza every day! My waistline would hate me for it though. So to justify eating more pizza I decided to make homemade pizza! (Thank you Pioneer Woman once more for the recipe!) I figured with homemade I can make it was healthy as I choose.

What you need -

2 cups of flour
3/4 cup of warm water
1 teaspoon of yeast (active dry)
Salt
Sugar
3 tablespoons of Olive oil plus extra for drizzling

So get 3/4 of a cup of warm water (straight from the sink is fine) 

Add the 1 teaspoon of yeast 

Now here is my smarty pants homeschooler discovery! I remember ages ago in science for yeast to grow it needs warmth and something to feed on like sugar. So now I add a little bit plain sugar to my yeasty mixture and it helps the yeast get all bubbly! It almost makes the dough fluffier. 

 Ok thankful moment! My sweet Aunt Lisa got me this super awesome hot pink Kitchen aid stand mixer for a wedding gift and I use it almost daily! Love it!

So add the 2 cups of flour to the mixer. I use the dough hook attachment. (BTW you can totally do this without a mixer! Been there done that and it was still delish!)

Next I sprinkle in some salt

After about 10 minutes your yeast should be ready.

So mix all the wet ingredients into the dry. I usually use mix in the olive oil first.

The mixture should form a nice sticky ball of dough. 

Coat a mixing bowl with olive oil and place the dough ball in the bowl.

I like to heat my oven up a few minutes so the dough will have a cozy house to rise in. Don't forget to turn off your oven when you put the dough in! Been there done that too! I leave the oven door cracked a bit too.

A hour later your dough should be well over doubled in size (guess I forgot a picture of that! oops!)

Preheat your oven to 500 degrees. I know 500 degrees??!! But it works perfectly!

I like to bake my pizza on a stone. Makes it nice and crusty! Drizzle a bit of olive oil on the pan then spread out dough to desired thickness. Now I only used half of the dough for this pizza cause it was just me (hubs was out in the field training so I had "sad eat past my limit" dinner.) So your crust will be much bigger.

Top how ever you want it and toss it in that 500 degree oven for 10 minutes.

So no final result picture because I got too wrapped up in an episode of Downton Abbey and didn't hear my timer beep. *sigh* So be warned, when your oven in 500 degrees five extra minutes can make you lunch very very crispy!