How to make pizza

Frugal and, most importantly, delicious! Who doesn't love pizza, especially loaded with your favorite toppings! Make your own pizza with this pizza recipe.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

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

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray pizza pan with cooking spray and sprinkle with a little cornmeal, if desired.
2. Roll out pizza dough (try my pizza dough recipe, "How to make pizza dough with your bread maker"). Spread to the edge of pizza pan taking care not to tear a hole in it. If the pizza dough doesn't quite reach the edge of the pizza pan, wait a couple of minutes for the pizza dough to rise a little more and try again.
3. Cover all but the edge of the pizza dough with sauce, then cheese, then toppings.
4. If you've made the pizza with my pizza dough recipe, bake for approximately 8-12 minutes, watching carefully for the pizza 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

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