I love pizza and it's such an easy meal to make! We were running out of ingredients in the fridge, freezer and pantry, so I took inventory of what I had available to cook for dinner...flour, pizza sauce, cheese...and yeast in the freezer. I bought yeast before we moved to North Carolina and kept it in the freezer. Now was a better time than ever to cook with it! I found a recipe online for pizza dough and began the preparations around 3:00 to allow time for the dough to rise. It was easy to make: yeast dissolved in warm water, add the flour and a little bit of sugar; stir it together and keep it in the bowl covered in Saran Wrap at a temperature of about 75 degrees. Well, there's no way I'm turning the heat up in our house to 75 degrees, so I turned on the oven to about 200 and set the bowl on the range. The dough rose in an hour.
Then, I punched the dough, set it back on the range top for another 10 minutes and it was ready to prepare for the pizza sauce and cheese.
I pressed it into a pizza pie shape (I had a momma's helper)
spread the sauce and added the cheese - and voila, it was ready for the oven. At this step I realized it would have been more practical to press the pizza dough directly on the stone instead of pressing it on the cutting board and then trying to transfer it to the cooking stone. Now I know! Also, I spread oil, which was left-over from a jar of marinated artichokes, on the top of the stone for flavor on the pizza crust.
Thirty minutes later it was ready to eat. It turned out great, because everybody enjoyed it!
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