Recipe 7: Homemade Pizza

It's Valentine's Day!!  So, to make dinner with the family even more special, Kevin and I thought that making a collaborative dish would be wonderful. While going through the recipes last month, homemade pizza came up and we both thought it would be great. Flash-forward to today: He was responsible for the sauce and the toppings for his pizza; spaghetti sauce is one of his specialties so it would be interesting for him to try pizza sauce. I was responsible for the dough and the toppings for my pizza.

As my dough sat to rise, Kevin's sauce simmered on the stove and I browned mild sausage for my pizza. It smelled SOOO good in our house!! But, I wasn't sure how it would all come together or how the dough would be: would it be soft and undercooked or would I burn the heck out of it?

Kevin's chicken, pepper, onion pizza: before

I rounded out two discs of dough (I found that I LOVE working with dough by hand!) and they each made a surprisingly large size pizza, larger than a Tombstone pizza at least! The last time I used my pizza stone for pizza, it came out soggy, so I used Mark's olive oil/baking sheet method. I brushed olive oil on the pan and on the whole surface of the pizza, then poured on Kevin's sauce, and layered on mozzarella cheese, sausage, and pepperoni on half (older son doesn't care for it). Kevin created his favorite pizza: grilled chicken, fresh green peppers, and onions...and tons of cheese.  Before I put it in the oven, I literally said a prayer for it to turn out decent. Oh yes, I really did.


And, my prayer was answered.  Not only was it decent, it was delicious!!! Crust, toppings, sauce, cheese were all perfect! It was sooo good. I was so happy I did things right on the first try I literally did a happy dance in the kitchen.

So, Valentine's Day dinner was wonderfully delicious and I'm one happy and full girl. Can't wait to take my leftovers to school tomorrow!!! :)

April's pepperoni and sausage pizza:after

Kevin's pizza: after. YUM!