Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Pizza Dough......A Favorite Thing To Make!

Hello Sweet ladies!!!!!!!!


Every day or every other day... Monday through Friday, we (my girls and I) make up all the pizza dough for the pizza station at the college bakery. Taylor our youngest daughter mixes it in our huge mixer with 25 to 50 lbs of flour at a time. We flour our wood baking table and let the dough rise for about 45 minutes. Sometimes it has been known to go off the edges a bit, if we don't pay close attention! I enjoy working with the soft dough.  


If Tay has time we both work together or I will just cut it and weigh it into 20 ounce pieces. A favorite thing for me! 


Then I take each piece and shape it into little balls of round dough for each pizza. 


I then take and lay them on an oiled pan. Five down and 3 across. We put them on shelves and put them in the freezer until they are needed. I hope I never tire of making the rounds of dough! Smile. The dough smells wonderful and the pizzas are beautiful. The college kids are enjoying the new way we are doing the pizzas this year. 

At home we also make our own pizza dough, not with the same recipe. I had some ask for the recipe we use. I got it HERE. It is a wonderful dough and so easy to make up!!!!! We only let it rise about 45 minutes, instead of the 2 hours that the recipe asks for. 

Olive Oil Dough
From Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Makes 4-1lb loaves.

2-3/4 cups lukewarm water
1-1/2 tablespoon granulated yeast
3/4 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
6-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

Mix the yeast, salt, sugar, and olive oil with the water in a 5-quart bowl, or a lidded (not airtight) food container.

Mix in the flour without kneading. I used my stand mixer with dough hook, but you canuse a spoon.

Cover (not airtight), and allow to rest at room temperature until dough rises and colapses (or flattens on top), approximately 2 hours.

The dough can be used immediately after the initial rise, though it is easier to handle when cold. Refrigerate in a lidded (not airtight) container and use over the next 12 days.

To bake my pizza (I made a personal size pizza) I took a handful of dough and had to use some extra flour (it was a bit on the sticky side for me) and spread it out. I topped with my toppings and then slid the pizza in the oven that had been pre-heated with the pizza stone in it - to 500 degrees. I baked it for about 15 minutes. While I like this crust, I will be trying my friend Mike's recipe next. The one thing that makes this a good one - is that I was able to have it in my fridge and just pulled it out to make when I needed it. Convenience food at it's best!

We use our tomatoes, green peppers, onions, garlic and basil from the garden for the top! Oh, we also use mozzarella cheese on the top also. 

Let me know please if you try it and what you think.


Tonight I went to the garden to finish digging up the rest of the potatoes. It was relaxing to be outside after being inside all morning and afternoon! We have about 50 lbs.....it will be wonderful through the winter months. I still have to dig my sweet potatoes........that will have to wait!

Tonight I was listening to Francis Chan on Youtube click, as I was putting up this post. I love listening to sermons when I get home and early in the mornings. I put one on as we get ready for work. I have been doing that for sometime and it is really nice. Anyway Francis said, "do you know that God loves you more then anyone else?" Our parents, loved ones........ANYONE! I started to think on that thought. Amazing, if you really think about it. I know my parents loved me a lot, yours loved you.......but God loves us more. He knows what is best for me. I know this......but to really think about it was so encouraging~ 

Need to go out and pick weeds for Willow.......she doesn't like the prairie hay.......silly girl! 

Thank you for being such sweetie ladies!

Linda

14 comments:

  1. That is a lot of dough!! It actually sounds fun to play with it! I'm into play dough with the kindergarten kids these past few days! Have a great Thursday and Friday--then it's home again for two days.♥♫

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  2. Wow! That is a lot of dough! You are such wonderful ladies working so hard making something for the college kids! My hubby always liked to make homemade pizza. We will have to try your recipe! Thank you. Blessings from my honme to yours! Anne

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  3. Now all we need is a picture of one of those YUMMY looking pizza's.. :) We Love listening to Francis Chan, his testimony is so very amazing on how the Lord moved him and got his heart to see he was going in the wrong direction with the church. Your potatoes look absolutely beautiful. Clete was just saying how he would LOVE to learn how to grow potatoes.. :)
    Have a wonderful and Blessed day tomorrow.
    Hugs..
    Angelina

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  4. Thank you for sharing the recipe! Will have to try that with the gkids !
    Prayers for all as so many have changes in schedules with school in session now.

    Hugs for you day!

    Linda in Wichita

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  5. Thank you for the reminder today sweet Friend!
    "HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANYONE"!!
    How grateful I am for that..
    I love to make my own pizza dough too.
    Blessings to you & your sweet Family
    JOY
    Trace


    www.grannytracescrapsandsquares.com

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  6. Wow Linda..that is a lot of pizza dough... Bless you all for knowing how and making these every day or so! Your potatoes look amazing! Yum!

    I remember listening to Joyce Meyer cd's each morning on my way to work...great way to start the day..hearing the Word!

    Bless you and have a wonderful day!
    Gert

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  7. Wow! that is a lot of pizza dough!! just wanted to echo the previous sentiments!!! thanks so much for your recipe... i was one of those who asked if you pass it on to us! my hubby is converting to 'vegie' eating, so i'd rather make the pizza from scratch. thanks so much!! i'm glad your school year is starting off so well! Blessings to you/family...
    ^)^ linda

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  8. Hi Miss Linda,

    I have a new appreciation for your posts about cooking large quantities at the college. My husband is in charge of the kitchen at our church in Joplin. We've helped him feed up to 300 volunteers at a meal this summer. I'm glad I don't do that every day.

    Even with cooking for 100, the quantities are mind boggling to me. I'll be watching for your tips and narratives. ~smile~

    Thanks so much for sharing your recipe.

    Laura
    http://harvestlanecottage.blogspot.com
    Joplin Family Worship Center
    jfwc.org

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  9. Hi Linda...
    sure takes a lot of dough to feed those college kids~~~LOL!
    My folks owned and ran a bakery right next to the university, when I was growing up.
    Huge quantities of brownies, cookies, bread etc. ...we made it every day!

    Thanks so much for sharing the O.O. pizza dough recipe!
    I'm going to give it a try.

    Have a wonderful evening.

    Smiles :)
    Kerin

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  10. What a great surprise when I read your post. This is the same recipe I use ALL the time. It's easy, tasty and can be made ahead. We enjoy Stromboli, pizza and foccacia made from this dough. I'm so glad it helps to make your life a little bit easier. Blessings.....Christine

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  11. Wondering if you know how many calories are in the pizza dough? It looks so yummy!

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  13. May I know the reason why you only rise the dough for 45 minutes instead of 2 hrs.? And what procedure do you do if the pizza is from the freezer? Thank you.

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  14. I got a little confused, Is the Olive Oil Dough recipe the one you use for the College Pizza Station? Thanks.

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