Delicious Stuff
Posted on | May 27, 2009 | 8 Comments
Okay, remember the Melissa Lion Smugacity Challenge? And for one whole week, we all felt superior to EVERYONE who wasn’t reading this blog?
Ahhh the salad days…
Anyway, I have something else that makes me smug and better than everyone — I make pizza at home. I KNOW. I do it a lot and it costs a fraction of what it costs to buy pizza and it’s delicious. I’d say a two pizzas cost about $2.50 each when made at home.
I make the crust too and that’s super simple. All you need is a food processor.
Here’s the crust recipe:
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
4 cups of flour (I do 3 white, 1 wheat)
Salt
Put the yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Let it sit there while you put the flour and salt in the food processor and process it up. Add 1 1/4 cup warm water to the 1/4 cup water and yeast. Put a couple of blurps of olive oil in there too. Stir it. Pour the water yeast oil mixture into the flour as you process at low speed. Soon it’ll all come together and you can dump that into a lightly-oiled bowl. Let that rise for a couple of hours.
I make the tomato sauce too. I always have canned tomatoes in the house and I just put a little garlic in some hot oil, then dump a couple of cans of tomatoes in there. I hit it with my immersion blender and then let it simmer until it’s thick. If I remember, I put some oregano and hot pepper in there too.
As for the cheese, I buy a loaf of mozzarella at CostCo, where it costs $3.50, and I grate it myself.
AND THEN what I do is top the pizza with whatever in the house is about to turn. How clever am I?!?
I bake it at 500 on a cookie sheet — no pizza stone. And I make two pizzas. One for dinner, and the rest are leftovers for breakfast and lunch.
Okay, so that’s fresh pizza. Don’t you feel like the most awesome human being ever??
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May 27th, 2009 @ 10:07 am
Captain Keebler makes homemade pizza too. It’s what I ask for every time I go over there. We had bacon and onions on it last time. YUM. We’re cooler than all the other people in South Dakota. Because we blog. And eat homemade pizza.
May 27th, 2009 @ 11:21 am
i bet YOU’RE delicious.
May 27th, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
I make Trader Joe’s pizza. It’s not as cheap but it’s pretty close. And so easy!
I feel extra superior now.
May 27th, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
We are sisters in awesomeness because I do the same damn thing. Why pay $20 when you can pay $2.50 and know exactly what went into what you’re eating?
This is just another reason why I love you. We’re both superior and we’re not afraid to admit it and tell everyone about it.
May 27th, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
When you want to splurge, try canned (or fresh if you REALLY splurge) clams on it.
I know——sounds weird, but with a little extra garlic in the sauce OMG…….it’s great.
Oh, we like homemade pizza too.
We pre bake our crust alot of times too, because we like it really cruncy.
wow. that sounds awesome. I have a roast out for din tonight (not a pot roast…but one that you cook w/ garlic and ‘au ju’ and slice thin…while med rare……….
but pizza for dinner this weekend!!
Oh wait…another splurge? It’s more expensive than the refrig clean out pizza, but try fresh red/yellow/purple/orange/green peppers, chopped artichoke hearts (brined, not in oil) mushrooms, and olives. HELLOOOOOOO???? The best veg pizza evah!! EVAH!!
May 27th, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
Yay, we do almost the exact same thing. Crusts and sauce and we grate our own cheese.
http://juliryan.blogspot.com/2009/01/seafood-pizza.html
May 29th, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
I make my own pizza, too. I’ll have a pizza-off with you any day of the week, Lion!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 2:47 am
Your pizza’s sound simply delish…You should update this posting with a picture or two next you make some.