Homemade Pizza

What's for dinner tonight? Homemade pizza! Can't beat it, yum! I'm always up for homemade pizza; and I'm not talking about heating up a frozen pizza either. Gotta make the crust from scratch. In summer I'll grill my pizza on the BBQ, which is amazing and I highly recommend trying that, but the rest of the time I use my pizza stone. You get such a nice crisp crust. Here's a very basic pizza crust recipe that you can make within half an hour (plus baking time).

1 1/2 tsp dry yeast
1 tsp brown sugar
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tbsps olive oil
1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 450 F (see note below if using a pizza stone). In a medium bowl, dissolve the yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.

Stir in flour, salt and oil. You can use regular all-purpose or a mix of all-purpose and whole wheat. I have a multi-grain flour I used this time. Mix together until smooth. Let rest for 5 minutes.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat or roll into a 12 inch circle. Transfer crust to greased pan or a pizza stone dusted with cornmeal. Spread crust with sauce and your desired toppings. Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.

Note: If using a pizza stone you should either put the empty stone in the cold oven and heat it up with the oven, using a pizza peel to transfer the pizza to the hot stone. Or don't preheat the oven and instead put the assembled pizza on the cold pizza stone and put in the cold oven (start timing once oven has heated to desired temperature).