Pizza Roll

This is easy and good.

A friend told me about it at knitting one morning.  Where has this recipe been all of my life?  Even the kid likes it.  There are a bunch of recipes out there for this but something this simple seems like you should just be able to wing it.

You need:

pizza dough

Shredded Motzarella

Provolone cheese

pepperoni

grated Parmesan cheese

egg

tomato sauce

Preheat oven to 350-375

Roll out pizza dough.  I had to pull it over the corners of the cutting board to keep it from bouncing back.  The first time we made it we brushed the dough with beaten egg, the second time we didn't.  I didn't notice much difference.  Layer the dough with the cheeses and pepperoni. Once we didn't have any mozzarella and cut up a bunch of the little cheese sticks that we picked up for the kid's lunch. 

Roll the whole thing up and put on a baking sheet with the seam side down.  We used a silicone mat to keep it from sticking,.  Brush with egg and bake for about 40 min.

Slice and serve with warmed tomato sauce in a little bowl for dipping.

Ours has had a blow out on the side each time we have made it.  No big deal.  

I'm looking forward to tweaking this with all kinds of different ingredients.

Homemade Pizza

The kid has been asking for pizza for a week.  Frozen pizza is not worth it in my opinion.  We decided we could make one for way less than delivery and it might be fun. 

We found this recipe for dough: Pizza Dough III.  4.5 stars for 400 reviews is good in my book.

Here is are the before and after dough pics.  The kid is trying to wrap her mind around the idea that yeast is alive.  But she loves the idea that all the air pockets are little farts.

The farmer bought a can of pizza sauce for the adventure.  I am going to can pizza sauce when the tomatoes come in.  If I can make tomato sauce, I can make pizza sauce.

The kid likes pepperoni.  I don't know why, because she invariably picks it off.   I like sausage and mushroom.  We compromised and went half and half. 

Bummer.  It was too doughy.  Good, but it could be so much better.   It has the potential to be easy, cheap, and great.   

We tried again today with some changes: more flour (2.5 cups), a hotter oven (400-375), and we used one of the cookie sheets to get a bigger pizza with a thinner crust. 

Much better.  Now to research sauce recipes...