After I published my post on planning ahead for pizza night, it occurred to me that you all might want some ideas for making pizza sauce. So here are ones I regularly use, depending on what I have on hand. The options are almost endless for a good tomato pizza sauce. Or you might prefer…
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Planning Ahead for Pizza Night
Friday night I made pizza, even though it was just me here for dinner. I happen to love pizza! I made my new favorite bread machine pizza dough recipe and divided it into 4. I rolled three of the pieces of dough out and baked them one at a time at 450F on parchment paper…
Pizza and Sauce Cooking Class
On Saturday night I had offered to teach a few women how to make pizza. I mixed up some pizza dough early so it would be ready to roll out into pizzas a while after they got here. We started by mixing up another smaller batch of pizza dough and I let them each knead…
Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough (4 pizzas)
I picked up Jamie Oliver’s older book, The Naked Chef, and found a recipe for pizza dough I really like. It makes 4 medium sized pizzas but I’ve been doing as he suggests and prebaking the extras for 5 minutes, then freezing. Makes it very easy to pull out a pizza shell, top it and…
Pizza Margherita in the Winter
My youngest asked if I would make pizza margherita this week for dinner. I hesitated because my tomatoes are long gone and my basil is long gone and it tastes so good with fresh basil and tomatoes. But I saw some decent looking plum tomatoes at the grocery store. They seem to be the only…