Pizza Anyone My Recipe for a great Pizza

Hello and welcome. Yes I know it looks delicious. As it should be. Earlier this year we had bought the PiPizza Pan yes a Pi pan. When I was a child my grandmother Joann used to say it’s a pizza pie. She was always saying things like that. She would say chride Fricky for fried chicken. When I would ask a question she would always say no it’s for your brother over in Italy. What??? It took me many years to get that! I used to think I really had a brother in Italy. I know laugh. She was a school guard and was a school guard for 30 years. She left because she became ill with what they called organic brain syndrome. She was diagnosed around age 52 I was 12 years old. It was a very painful experience to see your grandmother deteriorate in her memory. Anyway I digress. Did you come here for the pizza or what?? I would imagine you did. I have spent my life making pizzas. We used to buy them in the Chef BoyArDChef Pizzas in a green box. The box may have changed but this was over 40 years ago when I would buy them. It was like a Friday night special. I will have been married for 41 years this November. I was making them as a teen. I can still even remember making them when we lived in Norfolk behind the ABC Daycare which Bruce cut the grass for the school to pay for Jrs. Daycare. I was 18 going to Nursing school. Those pizzas were so delicious. The funny thing is I would make homemade wheat rolls (old Betty Crocker recipe book) but yet I bought that pizza kit. Haha. 🤣 I think that kit was only like a 1.40 then if that. It came with everything in the box. Good times! I want to add that the Lodge pan shown in the picture will hold the recipe batch below perfectly. No need to cut the dough. It’s a great easy way to make that pizza for the family. 

We have always ate pineapple on our pizzas even when I was a teen I would go to chuck e Cheese with friends and I would order the ham and pineapple. I know laugh but if you then you know it’s very tasty. Lip smacking delicious. When Bruce worked at Dominoes Pizza he would bring home pizzas sometimes and he always had pineapple with extra cheese and extra sauce. That was our favorite!! Even our kids loved it. 

I also will put them in cast iron pans to bake in. Add extra olive oil for a crunchy crust. 

I also use the stones to cook them on as well but I believe the cast iron does a great job. As they both do. 

Riggs and Ledger love when I make these homemade pizzas. They help me decorate them. 

I am gluten free and have been eating gluten free since 2015. I have celiac’s disease. I have no choice but I find so much more gluten free items now than I did before. We would always have to drive to VA. Beach to find things for me at the Trader Joe’s or the Whole Foods. Then when Wegmans opened we went there as they had a great selections as well. I miss VA. Beach. Some of my best friends lived there. My art group was there. 

A lot of times we will use the Pioneer Princess to cook the pizzas. It has to be in the teens as it will get so warm in here. 

So a lot of times I will freeze the dough I wrap in cellophane and then put in gallon bags. They keep up to four months. Just thaw and use as you would. We would have huge pizza parties at my old house as we had built a homemade pizza oven. It was hand built. I will share more on that later. I was late on this post as it was. As if there is a time limit..,, lol it’s my internal time clock. Haha 

So when we would have the parties I would make a list of everything we would need for the toppings. The boys mostly Colby made the Buffalo chicken pizza. Colten would make the bbq pizza. Dusty was a cheese pizza. Cooper was the pepperoni. 🍕 
 Now for what you all have waited for…… 

The Recipe 

Pizza Dough Recipe 

water 1 1/3 cups warm 100 degrees Fahrenheit (I use a thermometer) 

Olive oil 2 TBS. 

Sugar 1 Tablespoon

Salt 1 teaspoon 

Flour 4 cups (I use whatever flour I have wether it’s bread flour or white flour) 

Active dry yeast 2 teaspoons I buy the one in the jar and I keep it in the refrigerator. 

I use a bread machine as having a family of nine children I needed appliances that could help me cook with. When my girls were growing up they would help with so much. In the bread machine I just use the dough cycle and put your water in first then the olive oil. Add the flour and salt. Then add the sugar and yeast. Start the bread machine and go do something else for 1 hour and half. Then your pizza dough is ready to make into delicious pizza. When I would have these pizza parties I had so many people over I had for bread machines going at once and then I would refrigerate the dough to be ready for the pizza party. When Kim and Jr got married in 2014 we had a pizza party that night at the wedding party. Bruce and I cooked pizzas (mostly Bruce) I kept everything together. Bruce cooked more than fifty pizzas that night. I think that was the record. 

Enjoy!! 

Much love and respect, 

Dawn Gallop 

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