Pizza

Pizza, pizza, pizza, when are you going to make pizza?’ my dad asks. ‘I don’t know.’ I answer. My whole family loves pizza. I do, of course. Which we are so lucky that there just happens to be a pizza restaurant on our island. But we all still love homemade. And it’s pretty “simple” minus the whole afternoon. So I’ll just go ahead and tell you, this is not Really Simple Pizza Dough. I read the recipe for the first time about 1 year ago. ‘I’ll make it’ I told my mom. It sounded real simple. Forget the ‘real simple’ it took all afternoon! And it’s kinda’ salty.  I have no idea where this came from, but here is what we do.

        “Really Simple” Pizza Dough

6 cups all-purpose flour

1 Tablespoon salt (this is a little less than the real recipe says)

1 pouch (1 Tablespoon) dry yeast

2 cups water biasa (room temp.)

4 Tablespoons oil

        Ibu Yenni’s Pizza Sauce

1 8oz can of tomato sauce

1 6oz can of tomato paste

1/3 cup oil

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon sugar

2 teaspoons garlic powder

2 Tablespoons oregano

3 Tablespoons basil

6oz of water

        Toppings

2½ cups mozzarella cheese

pepperoni, optional

green peppers, optional

anything you want on your pizza

·         “REALLY SIMPLE” PIZZA DOUGH: Combine flour, salt, and yeast, in a large bowl. Add the water and oil. Stir til’ a dough forms. Dump everything that is in the bowl onto the counter on a floured surface and knead everything for 8 mins.

·         Lightly oil the bowl that you mixed the dough in. Dump the dough in. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for 2 hours, undisturbed.

·         Re-flour the counter, dump the dough back on the counter, and gently press the air out of the dough. And let it sit in the same bowl under the plastic wrap for another 20 mins.

·         Preheat your oven to its top temp. Roll out the pizza dough,

·         PIZZA SAUCE: Mix tomato sauce, paste and oil together. Put on high heat; add salt, sugar, garlic powder, oregano, basil, and water. Mix well. Bring to a boil and boil 30 secs. Let cool a couple minutes before putting on the pizza.

·         BACK TO THE PIZZA MAKING: Put the dough on a greased pan. Spread as much pizza sauce as you want. Put the toppings you want on and then the cheese.

·         Bake for about 10 mins.