Pizza!

[liveparadox]

My first attempt at pizza from scratch (including the dough) turned out pretty well. Especially that dough

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pizza

[anonymous]

Hey, congrads on the pizza! What toppings did you try? I'm glad the dough worked well :)
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Re: pizza

[liveparadox]

Thanks! :) The pizza toppings were:
- Olive butter, which is basically butter pulsed with olives and capers
- goat cheese mixed with fresh garlic and lots of it
- grated parmesan
- pine nuts, in the puzzling absence of walnuts from these premises
- red & green olives, which should have been chopped only I couldn't deal with pitting them
- arugula

I baked the crust 3-4 minutes before garnishing, as you recommended. I added the arugula about 3 minutes from the end of baking, and unfortunately it dried out. Also, I think the pizza just needs more oil, and more cheese.

I used the whole dough recipe for a single crust, but I think next time I'll make a double recipe and separate it into 3 balls for freezing or using immediately... we like the thick crust, but it was a bit much.

Re: pizza

[anonymous]

I made another arugula pizza last night - my usual one is a recipe from Italian Herb Garden, and has artichoke hearts and fresh mozz, things I don't have lying around on a typical day, and also sun dried tomatoes. I left those out, and tried this, which worked really well, with one exception

[liveparadox]

Yep, pizza stone is the way to go. We have one, too, and it works really well. Now I really, really want to bake bread directly on the stone...