How to make homemade pizza

Frugal, healthy, easy, and, most importantly, delicious! Who doesn't love a homemade pizza pie, especially loaded with your favorite toppings!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• pizza dough
• pizza sauce
• shredded cheese
• toppings (meat should be precooked)
• large pizza pan
• cooking spray
• cornmeal, if desired

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray large pizza pan with cooking spray and sprinkle with a little cornmeal, if desired.
2. Roll out pizza dough (try my "How to make pizza dough with your bread machine" for a frugal recipe - only 39 cents per crust!). Spread to the edge of pizza pan taking care not to tear a hole in it. If the dough doesn't quite reach the edge of the pan, wait a couple of minutes for the dough to rise a little more and try again.
3. Cover all but the edge with sauce, then cheese, then toppings.
4. If you've made the pizza with my homemade pizza dough recipe, bake for approximately 8-12 minutes, watching carefully for the crust to be slightly browned and the cheese completely melted; otherwise, bake according to the directions for the pizza dough that you are using.

Tips & Warnings

• This pizza using my pizza dough recipe freezes well; see "How to freeze homemade pizza" for tips.
• Other options for the crust are Pillsbury pizza dough in a can (found in the refrigerator section with the dinner rolls) and Trader Joe's premade pizza dough in a bag, although these two options do not provide as much dough as my recipe.
• Another option is using a Boboli crust.
• Precook all meat that you are using for toppings.
• Blanch crunchy vegetables, like zucchini, before using as a topping.