Pizza Pizza!

Everyone should know that my husband LOVES pizza. He could and would eat pizza every day of the week if I let him and if he were a blubbery slob, but he's not.  So today I gave him two choices for dinner: Pizza, or Quiche. With an instant PIZZA! I knew I had to get to planning.  Since he's a growing man and can eat whatever he wants and doesn't get the extra baggage like some of us do, I decided to an extra ingredient for his side of the pizza-prosciutto. We already had an abundance of fresh vegetables and herbs (from the garden) so I didn't have much shopping to do in that area. 

Homemade Pizza Sauce

5-6 large Roma tomatoes

3 cloves garlic

3-5 leaves fresh basil (depending on how you want it to taste)

Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until mixed.

This is where I think I might change it next time. I would strain off some of the juice with a cheese cloth or sifter because there was allot of juice after the pizza was done baking, making the crust more soft than we would have liked.   But either way, it was all good, how do you know for sure? Because all I heard while I was eating was Mmmmm, Mmmmm, this is so good lover :)

So for the pizza dough I used a packet of yeast "Specially designed for making pizza" (that's what it said on the package).  I thought, okay no waiting around for it to rise, I can just mix it all up and slap it on the pizza pan...well it was that easy, except when I removed the pizza from the oven, the only think that changed about the crust around the edge was that it got hard, no rise, no chewy dough, just crispy extras.  It was good, but I was hoping for something a little more thicker.  I'm wondering if it was because I used whole-wheat flour instead of the all-purpose flour that the packet of yeast called for. Who knows.  I used cornmeal and flour when I rolled the dough out, hoping it would make the bottom and top more crispy/less gooey.  But that didn't seem to matter.

Homemade Pizza Dough

Follow the instructions on the packet of yeast if you don't want to use whole wheat flour.  I used whole wheat flour and a tablespoon of flaxseed meal to "make it healthier". 

My husband loves meat, all types and lots of it.  So this is how the pizza was layered.  I placed a thin layer of provolone cheese across the entire bottom. Then on his side I placed  prosciutto, then all the veggies (green, yellow and red bell peppers, mushrooms, black lives, onions and some sliced basil). I did all the same veggies on my side.  Then I added slices of turkey pepperoni to my side and then almost half a package of regular pepperoni to his side. After all the veggies were on, a generous amount of mozzarella cheese and few sprinkles of Parmesan cheese were added to the top. 

So I threw the pizza in the oven at 400 for about 20 minutes or until I noticed that the cheese was "golden brown" and there were juices bubbling over the edge. The house smelled amazing and I was getting hungry!

And so, there we have it. A homemade, semi-healthy pizza made with love. Needless to say this pizza will be gone in 2 days, but I would much rather make a pizza like this anytime instead of buying a greasy pizza with processed meats and sauces. Nothing beats a homemade pizza and you know what ingredients are in it. Overall, DELISH!