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March 16, 2009

CRAFT-Along: Pretty good, but not the best pizza ever

5 Minute Pizza Dough.  (except this 2-3 hours of your life doesn't count.)*

5 minute dough rising
Originally uploaded by kerner

I love homemade pizza and I make it quite a bit - at least every other week. My normal dough recipe is out of an old Williams-Sonoma cookbook, and it's pretty similar to this, except it's made in the food processor, there is olive oil in the recipe, and the measurements are in cups, not grams. 

(Actually that was probably my main problem with this recipe, since my kitchen scale quit working several months ago and I never replaced the battery.)

I cooked the pizzas on my pizza stone in the oven, like I normally do. Crank the oven up to 500, take out all the racks except the bottom one (with the stone on it), and cook for about 6 minutes. All the toppings have to be pre-cooked, which is a little bit of a hassle, but it makes a super crispy and yummy pizza.

5 min dough - on the pizza stone
Originally uploaded by kerner

I found the dough a little tougher and more difficult to roll out than my normal dough recipe, but that might be my own fault for estimating the quantities instead of weighing them out as the recipe calls for.

Still, you can't go wrong with homemade pizza. I made sausage and canadian bacon versions for my dad and husband, and my mom and I got red & green bell pepper, olive, and spinach versions.

5 minute dough - cooked
Originally uploaded by kerner

I liked the pizza - but can I just say that the name of this project is very disappointing?  I guess it's because I already make pizza dough a lot, but this version is really no faster than any other kind of pizza dough I've made. I expected 5-minute pizza dough to be ready to top with toppings and stick in the oven in 5 minutes.  

* in retrospect, I guess that sounds a little mean.  I am all about making bread, pizza dough, even YOGURT for heaven's sake, from scratch, just for the sake of doing it.  But I think it's important to be honest that these things do take a little more time and planning than swinging through the drive-thru on the way home from work.  It's worth it, though.

 

Posted by zarah at March 16, 2009 5:32 PM

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