Delicious Stuff

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??