I love using focaccia bread for pizza crust and recently I have been loving Tyler Florence’s Fabulous Focaccia recipe. The recipe below is pretty much Tyler Florence’s except my slight change of using whole wheat and unbleached flour together (the directions are pretty much from his recipe, so following the directions directly from Tyler Florence works too, maybe even better).
ingredients:
2 tsp active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
2 tbsp sugar
3 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached flour
1 tbsp coarse salt
1/4 cup olive oil
In a mixer, proof the yeast by adding together the warm water and sugar. Stir gently until it dissolves. Let stand until foams appears. Turn mixer on low and slowly add the flour to the bowl. Dissolve salt in 2 tbsps of water and add it to the mixture. Pour in 1/4 cup olive oil. Once well mixed, increase the speed to medium. Mix until dough is smooth. If dough is too wet, add more flour; if too dry, add a bit of water.
Turn dough out onto a clean surface and gently knead it a few times. Form dough into a round ball and place in an oiled bowl. Cover with a damp towel and place it in a warm place. Allow the dough to rise (when it is doubled in size) for about 1 hour.
Once dough has doubled in size, place on a clean surface. Roll out dough to desired pizza size and desired crust thickness. We are a fan of thin crust, so we roll it out until dough is about 1/4” to 1/2” thick. Place desired toppings to create your pizza. When we make pizza, we usually have the oven at the highest heat setting possible and depending the toppings, the pizza will bake anywhere from 10-18 minutes.
The pizza we made for our fall-ebration was an Acorn Squash and Gorgonzola Pizza taken from here. It is really yum, but we like more spice to we used a chili garlic oil right on top of the crust before we put on the cheese (and we even drizzled just a smidge on top before we ate it)
You will just love this pizza! Anyone else feeling a wee bit hungry?!
p.s. i usually triple the recipe and separate the dough into 6 balls and freeze them, so i have dough ready when i want fresh pizza.
I am! Actually more than a wee bit 😉 After reading the recipe and seeing the picture, I cannot not wait to try it. Sounds so yummy and so easy at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
I recently discovered a love for gorgonzola on pizza (particularly with figs! I know, I wouldn't have thought of it either). Thanks for posting this recipe, I'm looking forward to trying it out!
This crazy week involved a few deadlines for me, two late work nights for Ben, shingles for Soul, some Spurs wins and losses, and a major craigslist score. There was good crazy and bad crazy all day, every day.
This week's learned, links, and thankfulness...
Soulie loves her older sisters a lot, but she often doesn't know how to show that love when they're around!
If I don't write a daily to-do list, I don't get much done.
True graduated her swim level and she moved on up! I'm so glad these girls are learning how to swim properly and pool safety.
This strawberry cream tart looks ah-mazing and I want to make it soon!
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So happy the BFF is on summer break that means beach trip days are coming! Woot! Woot!
The post about "The Good Mom" my friend (and pastor)Â PJ shared with me (and a few other gals) was a good reminder that my heart needed. I love this statement he made... "Your "success" as a mom is not measured by your capacity to keep everything in order; it's determined by your ability to trust that even in the chaos, Jesus is beautiful - and even in the mess, so are you." It goes on to say, "In the end your kids care far less about how presentable their dinner is and far more about how healthy their mom is." That is all so true. I definitely struggle with all of that! I easily find my satisfaction and joy in making sure my girls are well-behaved, know responsibility and rules, and have everything neat and tidy and when it isn't, I'm pretty much all out of sorts. This post reminded of how I really need to readjust my ideas of motherhood and fix my eyes on the cross more.
Wanna know something? We totally buy those microwaveable dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets! And you know what else? They taste good!!!
I am! Actually more than a wee bit 😉 After reading the recipe and seeing the picture, I cannot not wait to try it. Sounds so yummy and so easy at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
I recently discovered a love for gorgonzola on pizza (particularly with figs! I know, I wouldn't have thought of it either).
Thanks for posting this recipe, I'm looking forward to trying it out!
you are totally making me hungry hun!! this looks delish!!
Yummy to the maximus yummiest!!!!
This looks delicious, just one questions though. At what point do you freeze the dough? before you let it rise?
It looks soooooo delicious, I'm going to have to try this recipe for myself. Thanks for posting!
-Ceci.
I made (and loved) the recipe! Thansk for sharing!
http://selfishlyhappy.blogspot.com/2011/05/recipe-pizza-crust.html