BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe

Subject: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Den
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 09:55 AM

I make one that's a little different. I start by cooking some fairly spicy marinated chicken breasts on the bar-b-cue. When there done I slice them into strips. I place the chicken on my low fat pizza crust and then add salsa instead of pizza sauce. Top with onions, jalapenos and jack cheese and bake for about 15-20 minutes. Pretty tasty I have to say.

So what's yours?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 10:59 AM

Garlic, spinach, toaste walnuts and goat cheese on a whole wheat crust: YUM!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Den
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 11:01 AM

Desdemona does your spinach get soggy at all?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Scoville
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 11:47 AM

Man, those both sound good.

I'm an artichoke-hearts fan myself. And fresh tomato. I've never been particularly fond of pizza sauces so I'd much rather have my tomatoes in slices on top.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 11:57 AM

1. Go to Poppa Murphy's....

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Den
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:00 PM

Is that your Dad, Rap? We're talking home made here;.)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:07 PM

We used to do Chocolate and marshmallow a la Ninja Turtles for the sprogs when they were little. Must try it again one day:-)

Dead easy btw - Standard thin pizza base. Cover in Choc sauce. Pop on marhmallows and bake for about 10 mins. Very gooey.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:07 PM

My classic pizza is a non-tomato pizza.

The sauce is pesto sauce, liberally smeared on.

The "meat" portion is smoked oysters or clams.

Cut up (cubed) feta.

Usually mushrooms.

For variation I may put liberal dots of chipotle salsa on, or perhaps a roasted red peppers paste.

Although I sometimes will do other variations, that's about it.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Den
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:08 PM

Jaysus Dave, there goes the waistline.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 01:06 PM

Jaysus Dave, that's borderin' on child abuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 01:08 PM

blue cheese, celery, and chicken breast, with a liberal dash of hot sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 01:10 PM

My post was directed to Dave the gnome BTW.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 01:16 PM

One combo we have is with homemade tomato sauce sprinkled with oregano and chopped garlic, topped with artichoke pieces, dry or oil cured black olives and mozzarella.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 02:16 PM

Fresh plum tomato slices and mozzarella cheese. When you take it out of the oven, sprinkle fresh basil liberally over it.

YUMMY!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 02:39 PM

I'm hard pressed to think of something I won't put on homemade zaa.....

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 02:39 PM

Hi Den,

Well, it was an evolving process! As long asa the spinach is squeezed as dry as you can get it, and you take care not to glop it on too deep, it should be fine. I think the whole wheat crust helps it not to get mushy, since it has more body to it. Also, putting the cheese down before the spinach forms a barrier of (yeah, that's why we like it!) fat to keep things from getting too soggy.

You should definitely give it a go, it's delicious AND relatively good for you!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 02:50 PM

Mince some fresh tuna, with a little salsa.... cover your crust with it as you would regualr zaa sauce.... dash with 'hot' sauce to your own preferance (This is one of my staples)

On that crumble a goodly serving of feta cheese, add thinly sliced green and black olives, a little green pepper and finely chopped green onion....

Bake till done on 'pizza stone'

Serve with very cold lager or pale ale

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 02:51 PM

A thin scraping of sun-dried tomato sauce, then a swirl of pesto, fontina and romano cheeses, red onion, bay scallops, and shrimp. Ahhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 08:00 PM

Cheese with Bacon, Banana, and Chili.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 09:06 PM

Well, so far my least favorite homemade pizza recipe involved slices of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 09:26 PM

Wonderful Spam!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,Bainbo
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 07:10 AM

Bloody Vikings!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 07:50 AM

Start with fresh, home made dough for the base. Then do whatever you like......

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: John O'L
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 09:43 AM

I've been waiting for someone to suggest a recipe for a base that will taste as nice as the bought ones.

The base I make tastes very ordinary. It tends to fall apart too. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 09:49 AM

I have experimented with a lot of bases and have not been able to equal the tastiness and texture of "pizzeria" pizza. However, I make up for it by the fact that my toppings are better and healthier. I too would welcome suggestions for making the crust. I've used several mixes, such as Jiffy (from the box), the refrigerated kind (comes in the tube in the canned biscuits section), also I've used pita bread, flour tortillas, and have purchased the "Boboli" pre-made crusts. Oh,

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:06 AM

I am very fond of Boboli crusts, although I used to make from scratch was was happy. I don't remember where I got the scratch recipe, but it was a PIZZA dough recipe, not a bread or biscuit recipe.

One thing important with a pizza dough is to make it at least twelve hours before, and keep it in the refrigerator until time to form the base.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:16 AM

My pizza crust recipe:

Proof 2 tablespoons yeast in 1/2 cup warm water for ~10 minutes.
Add 1 cup flour (I use organic, unbleached white flour), 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2-3 tablespoons olive oil.
Mix and knead for a few minutes (I like a soft rather than firm dough as it is easier to spread out and lighter)
Let rise in warm place for 1 hour then knock down and spread onto parchment lined 12 inch pizza pan then let rise again for 15 minutes.
Top as you like then either slide parchment onto pre-heated pizza stone or place pan into hot (475F) oven for 10-15 minutes.
Never fails and as good as (if not better than) delivery.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:47 AM

Use some semolina flour when making the crust - it really adds a difference! I normally use 1 cup semolina with 3 cups white and I make two crusts. Also be sure to sprinkle semolina on the baking stone.   

I like to slightly bake the crust before adding the ingredients for a crustier pizza, but it isn't necessary.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:00 AM

Also, be sure to bake your crust on a STONE, not a pan....

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:05 AM

Absolutely!   The stone really makes a great crust!!   Be sure to pre-heat it!

I did find one pan that was perforated and made a decent crust, but I only would use that in an emergency!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: open mike
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 11:36 AM

instead of tomato paste i sometimes use a combination of
Ricotta mixed with pesto....
and sun dried tomatoes and roasted red peppers for on top

(sometimes i can find a bag of mixed frozen peppers--
green, yellow and red if i am in a hurry i toss a hand
full of these on, too.)

black olives go good, but not green ones

lots of garlic, and sometimes pineapple

mushroooms...lots of mushrooms, either Crimini,
Portabello, or even re-constituted dried shitakes!!

veggie pepperoni...vegetarian slices

and topped with fresh grated parmesan...

and more pesto...no such thing as too much pesto..

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 09:46 PM

I like a little sprinkle of parmesian or similar cheese on top, even when heating bought 'fresh' ones - cooked base with fresh uncooked topping ingredients - common in supermarkets here.

I like these, cause they mostly CAN be frozen to keep, and I just cut a quarter then that into 2 pieces. You can even add a small amount of extra ingredients too.

I use a preheated 'foccacio' type flat toaster with baking paper - it is a gentle constant heat top and bottom. This gadget is a boon for the single person - can do pies, chips, meat, fish, Chiko Rolls, bread rolls, etc. Almost anything except soups or stews... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: pattyClink
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 12:06 PM

Des, I make a double batch of homemade crusts, use two right away with pizza sauce and standard toppings. The other two get slapped in a 2-gallon ziploc and frozen.

One miserable day when you need something quick and fun to eat, you pull one out to make a nacho pizza. Still frozen, stick it on a pan. Then spread with maybe 1/4 inch of refried beans (this does not work as easily if your crust isn't frozen, you might have to heat them up to spread them.) Then DOT with salsa, not too much, not a whole layer. Then spread with cheese (mixture of cheddar or jack and mozzarella, or whatever you have) and finish up with jalapeno slices.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: pattyClink
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 12:07 PM

Sorry, I meant Den!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:36 PM

We make a pizza called breakfast pie.
Use a thin base cover with chopped tomatoes, then place bacon sausage and black pudding, mushrooms and top with some eggs.

(pre-cook the sausages)

cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:55 PM

Try a Martha's pizza at the Mill Cove Shopping Centre in Bedford Den.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 02:19 PM

My pizza dough is

1 tablespoon quick yeast (just mix it in the dry ingredients)
3 1/4 cups white flour (I used unbleached)
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup cornmeal (this from Jeff Smith, aka Frugal Gourmet)
1 tablespoon sugar (can use a little less, but do use some)
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon wheat gluten, if I remember (not often)
1 tablespoon olive oil
oregano, about 1 Tablespoon
garlic powder, somewhere between 1 and 2 teaspoons
1 1/3 cup water

I let the bread machine do the work, setting it on manual, but for years I made this with no machine. Either way it's good.

Pre-heat pizza stone to 500 degrees. When the crust has finished in the manual setting or has risen once, then divide it into how many crusts you want (typically, like was mentioned above, I make a couple to eat and then bake the last two for about 3 minutes and freeze them to use later).

When you have your dough rolled or shaped the way you want, get out the pizza stone and place the dough on it. Immediately use a fork to pierce a lot of holes over the surface of the crust or it will puff up like a huge pita. Assemble it quickly, then bake for up to 5 minutes. Slide it off of the stone onto a pan and put the stone back to heat a little more before the next crust goes on. The pizza will have done a lot of cooking on the stovetop while you put it together. Don't burn yourself on the metal handles for the stone.

I make the crust from scratch, but then what goes on top depends on what is available. I usually use a commercial spaghetti sauce (Hunts works) then depending on who is eating, the toppings vary. My son wants just cheese. My daughter doesn't want cheese, but she does like mushrooms (fresh if we have them, otherwise, canned), pepperoni or sausage, and olives. I eat cheese and meat (I tend to prefer ham, its a bit leaner), onion, green pepper, mushroom, olives. Fresh tomatoes, if I have them, are nice sliced very thin.

Making the dough is second nature, I make bread several times a week. But making sauce takes more time because I have to round up the ingredients. Sometimes I'll used canned tomatoes and make my own sauce. Only when I have a garden and a lot of the ingredients already (tomatoes, onions, garlic, green peppers) do I make sauce from scratch and freeze to use for pizza and such.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 02:59 PM

Pizza crust brushed with anchovy oil, then dotted with anchovies then sprinkled with Romano cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 03:16 PM

Whew! I bet the neighbors know when you're having pizza! Do you need a license to make it that strong? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 11:54 AM

If that was addressed to me, SRS, the neighbourhood's cats know for sure. They form lines and wait. The neighbours in the building give me dirty looks for two days. People near me give mean glances when I burp. A release of gas causes--but I am wandering from your question. In brief, no! However, it helps to have people think you carry a can of bear spray to return insults in a non-lethal manner.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: open mike
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 12:04 PM

bobili mow makes a whole wheat ready made crust
and there is a bakery here that makes sprouted wheat
crust...Alvarado Street...yum yum...

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 12:25 PM

My daughter tells me that her college roommates don't want her opening her cans of kippered snacks in the room. She has to take it to the dorm kitchen to open, consume, then carefully wash all oil off of the lid and can before tossing them in the trash in that kitchen. She learned about washing off all of the oil here at home when people protested about the smell. Tastes good, just smells too strong. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 01:33 PM

Hey GUEST you forgot the garlic.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 02:32 PM

I use a Boboli wheat crust, whatever jarred pizza sauce I find and spread on VERY lightly, mozzarella, spinach, feta and turkey sausage...then just wait til it gets gooey. mmmm.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Kaleea
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 08:27 PM

Many many moons ago, as a GI wife, I lived in South Korea & there were no pizzarias. Back in those days, I had the time to cook almost entirely from scratch, which I still prefer to do. I experimented until I found a crust & sauce I liked. Since I had to use what was available in the military commisary or in the local market, I used the old fashioned basics.    Most folks tell me that this is the best crust they have ever tasted. I used to make it the day or evening before having folks over, or put the extra pizza pan with crust in it into a giant baggie & freeze for a day when I needed it.

This makes a couple of big pizza crusts:

1 tablespoon dry yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 Tablespoon honey
2 2/3 cups warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
7 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup whole-wheat or rye flour
1 tablespoon coarse salt or 2 teaspoons fine salt
1 or 2 tablespoons of corn meal
extra olive oil

Proof the yeast for 5 to 10 minutes in 1 cup of warm water, the honey & and the sugar, until the yeast dissolves and the liquid begins to appear creamy.
Add the remaining water and 1 1/2 to 2 cups flour, including the whole-wheat or rye flour. Beat this really well (a hundred strokes) until it's smooth and soupy, and then let it stand for 10 to 15 minutes, until it's bubbly and swollen. Add the salt and olive oil and proceed to stir in the rest of the flour by the cupful until the dough is stiff but still slightly sticky. Tip: Stir the dough in the same direction so that the gluten strands retain a smooth, consistent pattern.
Knead the dough for about 5 minutes on a floured board. Put a couple of teaspoons of olive oil inside each of a couple of 2 gallon ziplock baggies, zip, & smush around till the inside is completely coated with oil. Place the dough in baggie, don't squeeze out extra air. OR: Place in an oiled bowl with a fitted cover, or in a kitchen sized trash bag coated inside with the olive oil.
Let the dough rise in a warm (but not hot) spot, like on top of the fridge or in an old fashioned gas oven with the pilot lit but the oven not on. Let it rise for at about an hour. You can make the crust at this point, or put it in the fridge for a day, then punch it down & let it rise again in a warm spot.
Sprinkle the pan or board with a little cornmeal, then toss, roll out, or can even smush the dough out in the pan with your hands.

Top as you like. I used to get a Hunts tomato sauce that had some herbs already in it (they didn't have all the varieties of spaghetti sauces then), & add this & that to it for the pizza sauce.
Sometimes, I used to top with thin slices of ham, pineapple tidbits, & sections of oranges I got at the local market in Korea. Yummy!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: bobad
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 08:36 PM

What! no kimchi on your pizza Kaleea?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:02 PM

The yeast they make these days doesn't always need to be proofed. The rapid or quick variety (I haven't read the label in ages, just grab the package I always use) can be mixed directly into the flour. It saves some time and bother. If you think your yeast might be old then proofing it is a good idea, to be sure it is still active. No point in wasting the rest of your ingredients if your yeast is dead.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Old Guy
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:59 AM

I make low carb pizzas buy using a low carb tortilla for the crust.

I ain't the greatest but it is passable. I got the idea from Chuck E Cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 01:40 AM

Add a little Lingham's sweet chili sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:13 AM

I use Lebanese bread for a ready-made base - quick, tasty and relatively fat free. Spread with pizza sauce, top with smoked salmon slices (I luuuurrrve smoked salmon - one of the 5 essential food groups in my opinion*), top with sprinkled capers, some very thinly sliced purple onion, some blobs of cream cheese, a few small blobs of pesto and some baby spinach leaves. Yummo.

*The five essential food groups according to JennieG, in no particular order:
smoked salmon
cream cheese
champagne
apricots
chocolate

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: Kaleea
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 07:36 PM

Since I have always had a foo foo tummy and can't tolerate anything "hot," no Kimchi on my pizza, sorry. I can make it, but I can't eat it.

I went to a Korean festival recently here in San Diego, which boasted over 150 kinds of Kimchi being made!??! And to think that I only learned how to make 2 kinds, winter & summer (less peppers) Kimchi.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 10:24 AM

I've been cooking from scratch a lot since the new year, as we both quit processed foods and returned to a veggie diet (albeit not strict as we're not ruling out the occasional eating of meat, just not doing it at present) and today I picked up some mozzarella balls so we could have a homemade margherita this weekend which I haven't done for ages.

Anyway, thought I'd look up threads on pizza here on the Mudcat to see what other ideas I might find. So far I'm liking these ideas posted a few years ago:

"Garlic, spinach, toasted walnuts and goat cheese on a whole wheat crust:" (Desdemona)

"blue cheese, celery, and chicken breast, with a liberal dash of hot sauce." (MMario) - though I'll have to swap the chicken breast for something else, blue cheese with celery sounds great.

"Ricotta mixed with pesto .. and sun dried tomatoes and roasted red peppers for on top" (openmike)


Any more?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite homemade pizza recipe
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 10:41 AM

And there's:

"Feta, roast pumpkin, spinach and pine nuts" (JennieG) from another thread