Made a pizza....

Recently, Matt and I inherited all of the essential equipment to make out own pizza's from scratch. Pizza stone, peel, and brush accounts for the heavy equipment. Yeast, Flour, and Corn Meal accounts for the laborers. We decided that yesterday was the day to attempt our first creation.

Prior to the culinary extravaganza we painted, cleaned, and played some good music, making sure that we filled the space with positive vibrations. We mixed up our yeast and flour for the dough and let that magic happen, while the dough was steady rising, I set out preparing the ingredients.



First, I Chopped up all of the toppings (red onion, red pepper, tomatoes, and peperoni), and let that chill out in the fridge. I felt that this pizza, although special, was lacking some flair, so i thought that i could add a twist on standard pizza sauce. I minced up some garlic and leftover onion and put it in a really hot pan for a few moments, it smelled so good, then I added that mixture, along with various spices to canned tomato sauce. At this point it tasted pretty delicious, but I remembered that Tyler had once told me that G.J.'s pizza in Traverse City added beer to their sauce... That inspired me to add about 3/4 of a bottle of PBR and a pinch of sugar to my sauce. The end result was phenomenal!


At this point the dough was done rising and we were ready to get cracking. Matt and I promptly began throwing our dough around the room, needless to say the kitchen was a mess at this point.
We ended up forming some rough circles and topped the Za's.










They took about 20 minutes in the oven (we made 3) and got 4 big slices out of each one. We called a couple of friends over to help eat them, and they both agreed that they were awesome pizzas! They tasted so good, fresh ingredients, homemade crust, semi homemade sauce, and gooey cheese......all for under 4 dollars. Three better than restaurant quality pizzas, for under Four dollars...Why isn't everyone doing this?