Do you make pizza at home?

Another option that I discovered is that you can make the crust in a frying pan before adding any toppings. You cook both sides over medium-high heat. Then you add the toppings and cook it the rest of the way in the oven. I'm going to try it under the broiler on the bottom shelf.
 

Irwin said:
Another option that I discovered is that you can make the crust in a frying pan before adding any toppings. You cook both sides over medium-high heat. Then you add the toppings and cook it the rest of the way in the oven. I'm going to try it under the broiler on the bottom shelf.
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Just curious, but why would you want to take that extra step of partially cooking a crust ?
 
Trader Joe's bagged pizza dough is about as good as homemade and I've made it from scratch.

I love making pizza and it's the first thing that goes in the oven when it cools down.
 

WheatenLover said:
I make pizza at home. I use Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee pizza mix. If the sauce recipe hasn't changed (yet again), I make the sauce. The only thing that goes on it is Parmesan Cheese. This is a throwback to my childhood, and I still love it (except for sauce recipe changes).

The first time Son #2 cooked anything it was a pizza. He used Julia Child's cookbook for the recipes. I was amazed that he did that. Over the years he has developed his own dough and sauce recipes, and it is delicious. Too bad he moved to California.
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There were no pizza places within 100 miles of me when I grew up. Yellow box Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee was my only pizza experience (a High School girlfriend introduced me to it) until I left for College. We had no Mexican food joints either...only exotic food we had was Chinese and that was over 25 miles from where I lived.
 
When my husband was alive, I made AWESOME homemade pizza!
I'm not a pizza nut but when I do get an urge for it, I get a tiny Dominos.(for one)
They use garlic oil on the crust, which I love!
 
I like to make my own pizzas at times and do a pretty good job if I must say so! lol. I need to find a place where I can get some pizza dough, I've been getting mini pizza crusts from Aldis and while they are ok I'd rather have a full size pizza.
 
Llynn said:
There were no pizza places within 100 miles of me when I grew up. Yellow box Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee was my only pizza experience (a High School girlfriend introduced me to it) until I left for College. We had no Mexican food joints either...only exotic food we had was Chinese and that was over 25 miles from where I lived.
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I grew up in a small town without any Italian or pizza restaurants nearby, but there was a guy who ran a pizza business out of his house. He made decent pies (pizza pies, that is). From what I remember, he converted his two car garage into a pizza kitchen. That was way back in the mid-1970s.
 
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Sometimes I buy the Monteli Organic Pizza w/ tomatoes, pesto & arugula ....and add mushrooms, onions & green pepper.
 
Llynn said:
There were no pizza places within 100 miles of me when I grew up. Yellow box Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee was my only pizza experience (a High School girlfriend introduced me to it) until I left for College. We had no Mexican food joints either...only exotic food we had was Chinese and that was over 25 miles from where I lived.
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Pizza and Mexican restaurants didn't exist. We had Chinese food, but I didn't like it back then. We lived on Air Force Bases and once in awhile in a small town off-base. The mess hall holiday meals were the best! That's when families got to go there.
 
So I made a few pizzas from scratch, and they were good but too much work for what you get. If I'm going to put that much work into something, I want gourmet food — not something I'm going to wash down with beer.

The other day while taking a shower, I was thinking that store bought Naan bread is good with spaghetti, which means it would probably be good as pizza crust. I did an internet search for "naan bread pizza" and apparently, a lot of people had the same idea, and there are quite a few videos of people making naan bread pizzas. This evening, I made one and it was really good... as good as pizzeria pizza crust!

Stonefire makes round naan bread specifically for making pizzas with them. I topped it with Ragu pizza sauce, onions, roasted red peppers, bell peppers, chicken, mushrooms, parmesan and mozzarella cheese, and baked it in the toaster oven for about 20 minutes. It came out great! :)
 
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Going to make one tonight trying block cheese for the first time and judging from the Italian sausage sandwich I made the other day it will be good. Could not find whole milk but it was better than shredded cheese.
 
fmdog44 said:
Going to make one tonight trying block cheese for the first time and judging from the Italian sausage sandwich I made the other day it will be good. Could not find whole milk but it was better than shredded cheese.
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I'm making naan bread pizza tomorrow night with Italian sausage and bell peppers. Better than pizzeria pizza at maybe 1/4 of the price. :)
 
I made a pie last night using block cheese instead of the shredded. Sliced it thin, came out much better. No more shredded cheese on my pizza
 

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