We have what I would call a tradition in our house which is when we have pizza, then we have homemade pizza and everyone gets to prepare their own pizza. I have also been mad enough to do it when the kids have play dates! I guess the tradition started when my husband and I were invited to a pizza party when we lived in Florida.
What makes it even the more interesting this time is that we are still waiting for our shipment to arrive from the UK, so what was I thinking!!!! Picture this: rolling the dough out with a can of olive oil spray; eating off paper plates and using plastic cutlery.
For the dough I mix bread flour, semolina, water, salt, dried yeast and sugar. I tend to omit the semolina and increase the bread flour as I don’t always have semonlina in my cupboards. I only make half the dough recipe as we all prefer thin crusts so we can make quite a few pizzas with that, including having plenty of left overs.
The tomato sauce is homemade too and is made up of garlic fried in olive oil, with tinned tomatoes, a couple of fresh tomatoes and plenty of seasoning. I think the key to the tomato sauce is to make it as early as one can during the day and let it cook down until quite thick.
The best topping I have is garlic sprinkled over the tomato sauce with the cheese and then when the pizza is ready sprinkling a little olive oil over with some shredded fresh basil. The kids will have ham, pineapple.
The best part of this meal is that there is always left overs which can either go in the freezer for another day or be used for packed lunches the next day, and of course the kids love it.
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