Pizza! Pizza!

The doughnuts I made the other day were a moderate success -- not quite up to my expectations but very edible. Undaunted, I threw myself into to pizza making. Pizza is not conceptually difficult. There's the dough, the sauce, and the toppings.

The toppings are pretty much a no-brainer.  In my case, I wanted it simple, so it was just mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. (Yes, there are pepperoni on there. I put them down first and then put the cheese on top. Probably should have done it the other way round for the visual effect.)

The sauce is a little trickier. I modeled my sauce after one that Sand makes, a lightly spiced tomato sauce for a nice fresh taste. I just about got it, although next time I will cut back a bit on the salt.

The dough is really critical in a pizza. I used a recipe I found on line -- just flour, water, yeast and and a little tiny bit of sugar. Seemed simple enough, but once again as with the doughnuts, the dough turned out to be very difficult to work with. Unlike doughnuts, fortunately, shape is of less importance and I was able to wrestle it down onto a sheet, roughly shape it, top it and get it into the oven.

The result? A respectable pizza pie. Next time I think I want to go a little thinner on the crust. But you know, the real test of whether a pizza is good is how it tastes cold the next morning. There was a little bit left over from this one, so it went into a baggie and spent the night in the fridge. Next morning, after I poured my coffee (in my youth it would have been a Pepsi, but I can't do that to myself now a days), I pulled out a slice and tried it. Mmmm, it passed the test. There will be no wasted pizza with this recipe.

It can stand a little tweaking, but it's a keeper.