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March 18, 2011 2 Comments

Deep Dish Pizza

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Yeah Friday!  It’s here again and I look forward to a warm weekend in Virginia.

Oh pizza.  Crispy, chewy, saucy, cheesy yumminess!  We love pizza at our house and Saturday nights are perfect for a little deep dish and a movie.  We recently made a recipe I found on Cookin’ Canuck for Focaccia Bread.  We made it a few weeks ago and watched it disappear in a matter of minutes.  My son and his homies rolled into the driveway a few minutes after I took it out of the oven.  Minutes.  The whole focaccia gone.  We thought it was worth making again and would be good as a pizza crust.  Boy were we right!

A little flour, Kosher salt, olive oil, honey and yeast.

 

Stir the honey into the 110 degree warm water and then add the yeast.

 

Stir gently and allow it to rest for about 10 minutes.

 

The yeast will bloom, or expand and smell wonderful.

 

Add the Kosher salt and olive oil.

 

Stir in the flour until well mixed.
Knead the dough on a well floured surface until smooth.

 

Place the dough in a large well oiled mixing bowl and turn to distribute the olive oil.
Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place until doubled in size – about 1 hour.

 

Spread the dough into the pan and poke holes in the dough with your finger.
Drizzle with olive oil and I added some dried basil too.

 

While the dough rests until puffy, about 20 minutes, prepare your pizza toppings.  We found a lovely red onion and some left over green peppers in the vege drawer.  I grabbed the kalamata olives and then went back and got some green olives too.  We purchased some Wegman’s store-made pizza sauce and shredded mozzarella.  We’re ready.

 

I chopped the kalamata olives,

 

sliced up the green ones too.

 

Thinly sliced the red onion and chop the green pepper or other toppings of your choice.
If you use sausage or meats be sure they are fully cooked before adding to the pizza.

 

We like lots of sauce.  This Wegman’s store-made sauce is pretty terrific and not as salty as some popular brands.

 

Spread around the toppings …

 

Add a good bit of cheese and pop it in the oven.

 

I love that it’s not greasy, soft on the inside with a slight crunch on the bottom.

 

This is the small ‘personal’ size pizza. 

 

So you going to have some pizza this weekend?

 

See the flaky crust – oh me oh my.

 

 

 

Would it be wrong to have it every Saturday?  Delicious!

Focaccia 

1 package (1/4 Oz. Packet) Dry Yeast
1 cup Warm Water
1 teaspoon Honey
2-½ cups All-purpose Flour
½ cups Plus 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil, Divided
2 teaspoons Kosher Salt, Divided

In a medium bowl, stir together yeast, warm water, and honey. Let rest until yeast blooms and bubbles form on top, about 10 minutes. Stir in flour, 1/4 cup olive oil and 1 teaspoon kosher salt. Turn the dough onto a well-floured surface and knead until dough is smooth, 5 to 10 minutes. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and let rest in a warm place until dough doubles in size, about 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Prepare your pizza toppings of choice.  We used:

Green Pepper
Onion
Black and green olives
Pizza sauce
Shredded mozzarella

Remove dough from bowl and press it into a lightly oiled 9- by 13-inch baking sheet until it touches the edges.  I used two round deep dish clay Pampered Chef pans, one small and one large as we wanted a thicker deep dish crust.  Using your finger, poke holes all over the dough. Drizzle the dough with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Let rest until the dough becomes puffy, about 20 minutes.

Top with pizza sauce, meat, vegetables or just shredded mozzarella cheese.

Bake until the pizza is golden brown, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack. Cut into pieces and serve.

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With so much tragedy in Japan, so many lost, and more that will be affected by the nuclear disaster, I just want to say that I feel very blessed and lucky.  We try to enjoy everyday and share what we can.  We continue to pray for those less fortunate and those affected by this unending disaster.

I hope you have a terrific weekend.  Pie No. 12 is a special request from my son’s roommate.  Check back on Monday and see how it turns out!  I’ve never made one before so it should be fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tricia

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2 Comments

  1. A SPICY PERSPECTIVE says

    March 21, 2011 at 4:37 am

    That is some good-looking dough! I LOVE homemade pizza. It tastes so my better and I like the quality control factor.

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  2. Sprinkled with Flour says

    March 19, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    This deep dish deep is so wonderfully full of yummy toppings, I could take a huge bite right now!

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