I'll start with a quick pizza recipie
3c flour
1 1/4c warm water
3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp yeast (quick or regular)
1 tbsp oil
a grain of salt (1 tsp if you like the stuff)
1/2 tsp baking powder
put water, oil, sugar & yeast in a measuring cup, mix it up and let it sit for a few minutes while you combine in a bolw flour, baking soda and the salt you may not have added. Add the liquid to the flour mix, stir it up (ooo little darlin' c'mon and stir it up)once it is gloopy glop throw a handfull of flour on the counter top and dump the contents of the mixing bowl on the counter. Turn on the over to 350 degrees. Kneed the glop until it is a good cohesive mass adding flour to the counter as necessary (about 5 minutes of rigorous kneeding will do it longer if you are not very experienced. put a bit of oil in the bottom of a mixing, put dough in bowl and roll it around untill it is coated with oil. PLace the bowl on the now warming oven and put a cloth over top of it.
Make pizza sauce (or open a can). tomato sauce & italian herbs (oregano, basil, thyme...) make a quick sauce. Add some finely chopped onion if you like, some garlic (whatever suits your fancy) dump it in a pan and heat it up on med heat.
While the sauce is cooking do you topping prep. If you like mushrooms it is best to precook them to get the water out so you za is not soggy.
Take a cookie tray or whatever you plan on using and coat it with butter or oil. punch the dough down and take it out of the bowl and stretch it roughly to size. Plop it on the tray and coax it into the correct shape trying to keep it an even thickness. Build crusts it you want. take a fork and poke a pile of little holes in the dough. Add the sauce, spread it around with a spoon but don't make it too thick. Sprinkle it with parmesan, add toppings, add mozzerela cheese. put it in the now hot oven for 10 - 15 minutes or until the cheese and edges of the crust start to get golden. Take it out, cut it up and eat it. Don't burn the top of your mouth. It will be fuck off hot for a long time.
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