Homemade pizza

Pizza is one of the most popular dinners in America.   Its easy, it can be eaten with your hands and kids like it.    And, when homemade, it inexpensive.  A cheese and pepperoni pizza sourced with sale and bulk ingredients can cost 1.40 or less.  When costing a recipe I omit salt.  I bought a bag of salt seven years ago.   I am still working on that bag of salt, and it will probably outlast me, my daughter, and probably my granddaughter.   LOL. .

Pizza dough can be made my hand, but it is a lot easier to make it in the food processer.   

2 cups flour (.14) 

1-1/2 tsp yeast ( .03) 

3/4 tsp salt 

6 ounces hot water -105-110 degrees

2 tsp olive oil. (.04)

Put dry ingredients in processer bowl.  Flour first, then the yeast and salt.   Put the yeast and salt in separate corners, they aren't  the best of friends. LOL.  

Process a few pulses to mix dry ingredients. 

Turn the processer on low and pour the water and olive oil mixture through the tube slowly until the dough forms a ball.   The dough will be sticky.  

Turn the dough ball out on a floured board and knead a few times until the dough isn't sticky.   Be careful not to overload the flour.   Roll into the shape you want.   This makes a 14 inch pizza, or you can make it into a rectangle and use a sheet pan.   

Pizza sauce:   The best I have found is from the Dollar Tree.  The same brand is at other stores.   Use about 1/4 to 1/5 of the jar.   ( freeze the rest in ice cube trays for future use.  When frozen, pop out
into a zip lock and store in the freezer door.  Spread the sauce on the pizza with a basting brush or the back of a spoon.

Cheese:  mozzarella cheeese is less fat and less expensive than some other cheeses.   (Costco ) sprinkle cheese over the sauce.   

Top with your favorite toppings.   I save the tops of red peppers, and we add pepperoni.  ( also cheaper at the dollar store, same brand and there are coupons sometimes to make it a quarter a small bag.    There are two bags in a carton.   

Total cost 1.22 with pepperoni,  1.01 without.  

Of course, the toppings are up to you.   We sometimes load it with any small buts of meat we have lurking in the fridge or freezer.   

Buffalo chicken pizza.  

Use blue cheese or ranch dressing instead of the red pizza sauce. 

Use chicken pieces that have been tossed with a hot pepper sauce.   

Top with mozzarella and blue cheese.   

I add red pepper small chunks or some parsley because I like some color on my pizza.