Pizza Party Drucker Style

Tonight is pizza night in the Drucker household.  About 1/2 the time that means we order out and the other 1/2 is us making it ourselves which is a lot of fun.  Daughter loves helping: roll the dough, dress the dough with sauce, cheese and toppings (her fave is black olive and pineapple, not a terrible combo actually) and then enjoys eating the fruits of her labors.

I made the pizza dough noted in my previous blog

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again using some amazing 160 year old sourdough starter that works great as a yeast replacement).  To do the pizzas it is pretty easy:

1) make the dough

2) let the dough rise (overnight is always best for flavor, especially when using sourdough)

3) prepare the dough for the pizza (roll, toss, get it into a pizza shape/thickness)

4) preheat the oven to a SUPER hot temp.  Generally I crank mine up to 500 degrees

5) dress the dough:

• don't go SUPER heavy on sauce, just makes it too soggy/tomato-e
• I generally place toppings UNDER the cheese so add toppings 2nd
• go light on the cheese as when it melts it spreads
• generally if using mushrooms or peppers or onions I pre-sautee them to add to the overall flavor profile

6) cook them and watch as they cook to ensure they are done.  I have a convective oven so I cook 2 at once usually and alternate positions in the oven 1/2 way (move the top to the bottom)

7) enjoy

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After:

Tonight's menu is: daughter's fave, and a sauteed mushroom, caramelized onion, with fresh mozzarella.  Yum.  Pictures to follow.