Pizza

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All you need is Varasano's pizza recipe

Once you're done reading that ...

  • Try Kyle's Pizza dough
  • or if you're really busy, Trader Joe's pizza dough
  • toppings
  • 3/4 lb mozzarella per pizza
  • pizza stone
  • grill
  • flour
  • put each dough in a cereal bowl with some flour at the bottom; let rise for 1 hour at room temp. The dough will assume a round form as it rises.
  • Put the pizza stone on the grill and pre-heat for 20 minutes.
  • Sprinkle some flour on a flat surface.
  • Pat out the dough until about 9" in diameter
  • bring in hot pizza stone
  • hand-toss dough to 14" (1)
  • throw dough gently onto stone, starting from the far edge.
  • Apply toppings
  • Return to grill and close the lid.
  • Check after about 10 minutes. May take 20. Depends on grill, outside temp, wind, humidity, etc.

Sauce

  • I find simple, chopped tomatoes work will after finely chopped in an electric blender and allowed to drain. The electric blender does a better job of disrupting cell membranes than hand-crushing, which is key, because you want as much water out as possible, and most of the water is intracellular.

(1) If you get a small tear in the dough as you're putting it down, just pull a small fold of nearby dough over it (the cross section would makes a Z, but from the surface looks like a lip).