My town's population is a whopping 460 people, give or take a few. Not exactly a bustling metropolis. When Hubby and I moved here a year ago, I realized something incredibly scary and disturbing: THERE IS NO PIZZA DELIVERY TO MY HOME!
This was very frightening to me, as I tended to rely heavily on pizza (and Chinese) delivery since I'm kind of a crappy cook.
Fast forward one year, and now I cook a little more (though not any better), and I would prefer to save my $$ for more important things than generously tipping a delivery driver to ensure my pizza remains spittle free the next time I place an order.
But I still love pizza (as evidenced by my waistline). Yesterday, in a desperate desire to do something... anything... with the roma tomatoes running wild in my garden, I threw together a homemade pizza sauce. I washed the tomatoes, cut them in half, squeezed out the juice and seeds, and tossed them into the food processor. After turning them into puree (I don't mind pureed skins in my sauces), I put them in a saucepan with some sugar, oregano and garlic powder. Then I cooked the crap out of it for a few hours. Finally, I mixed in a little tomato paste to thicken it up. It was decent. Not great (But hey, I'm not a great cook anyway), but decent.
Since I had some homemade pizza sauce, I figured I might as well make homemade pizza dough. I loathe kneading, so I have a few "easy" pizza crust recipes. One is made in a bread machine. Another is made in a food processer. But dammit, I'm LAZY! I wanted something even easier. Then I found this recipe on allrecipes.com: Quick and Easy Pizza Crust. It's perfect for a lazy cook like me. Do the yeast thing (yeast+warm water+sugar+5 minutes), mix in oil, flour and salt until it's a dough (I just used my favorite stainless steel mixing bowl and a wooden spoon), and TA-DA! After resting for 5 minutes, you have pliable, elastic and surprisingly tasty pizza dough. I mean, it could not have been any easier. And it really did taste good, too!
So now, armed with a pizza crust recipe that's almost as easy as calling delivery, as well as a few extra jars of homemade pizza sauce in the freezer, I think I'm probably finished with Papa John forever.*
*Nah, not really. I LOVE Papa John's breadsticks. LOVE them. I'll never let him go forever. But he won't be seeing as much of me anymore. I'm independent about my pizza now.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
1 comments:
I used almost that exact same recipe (minus the oil) to make bread yesterday. Instead of flattening it out for a pizza, let it rise for an hour and then bake it. See? You're a better cook than you realized! So versatile!
Post a Comment