Wish I could have learned some lessons tonight, but I don't think I did. Pizza should be easy, right? Well, it sure isn't in my kitchen. Am I just trying to have my cake and eat it, too? (And really, what could possibly be wrong with that? Worst idiom ever.)
The crust. The crust is my problem. I don't like any pre-formed crusts that I've tried so far, so I buy dough and roll it out. Or rather, I knead it into a cookie sheet while swearing. I do own a pizza stone. I know that you have to let it preheat with the oven. I know that you can sprinkle cornmeal on it to keep the dough from sticking. But how to get the dough onto the stone? Do I need a pizza peel?
Despite the work, the pizza was good. I like Publix's pizza dough, and tonight I used their 5-grain. It's good, but it's even harder to knead out because the 5 grains tend to make holes in the dough. For the sauce, I used a mixture of canned tomato sauce and tomato paste, then mixed in a little barbecue sauce (a little goes a long way). After wrestling with the dough, I spread the sauce over it, sprinkled it with fresh oregano and onions, then layered shredded gouda and cheddar, roasted red peppers, pineapple chunks, shredded carrots, and ground white pepper. I baked it at 450 degrees for 10 minutes and it was pretty much perfect (even if the picture isn't that pretty):
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