Pizza Dough

We love our pizza.  Unfortunately, it can be a huge amount of unhealthiness.  That's why I like making my own - plus we can give into whatever whims we have that day . . . from Miss Mia not liking onions to Aisey only wanting olives.  AND I can control the amount of cheese and meat (if any on the meat) that we put on our pizza.

So, I'm always willing to try new pizza dough recipes . . . so things don't get boring!

This one, we really like - mainly because it is very, very easy.

This is an example of crust that didn't get "stabbed" by the fork . . . as you can see, it's kinda bumpy - EXACTLY as Miss Mia likes it.  She has decided Mommy is not a good pizza crust maker if there are no air pockets in her crust!

Pizza Dough
~ adapted from Bread Machine Magic

1 cup warm water
2 tsp yeast
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp kosher salt
2 T olive oil
1 T sugar
2 T Italian seasoning
1 tsp garlic powder

Place water and yeast in bread pan of bread machine.  Let sit a few minutes until bubbles.  Then, add all additional ingredients.  Run on "Dough" cycle (I will say that I usually only let this go through first half of cycle.  When dough rests, I take it out - my machine does this with around 50 minutes left on cycle).  Remove from machine.  Separate into two equal balls.  Use Dough Roller to roll out on two pizza pans.  Using a fork, poke a few holes in the pizza crusts.  Trust me, if you do not do this, you will have VERY bumpy pizza crust.  Miss Mia LOVES it like that, but it really doesn't hold the toppings very well if you don't poke the holes!

Add the toppings of your choice.  Preheat oven to 450F.  Bake for 10 - 12 minutes.