New Category!....Pizza

Aaron and Erin's Roman-style pizza
Ingredients
for Pizza Dough
1 package active dry or fresh yeast
1 tsp. honey or sugar
1 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. kosher salt
1 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

For Pizza toppings
1 can tomato paste
1/4 pound sliced mozzerella cheese (or six slices)
2 roma tomatoes or 1 large tomato
Fresh basil

To put it all together...
preheat oven to 400 degrees
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast and honey or sugar in with 1/4 cup of water

In a mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine the flour and salt. Add the oil, the yeast mixture and the remaining 3/4 cup of water and mix on low speed until the dough comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. The dough can also be made in a food processor fitted with a steel blade.

Allow the dough to continue in the mixer on a low speed for 5 minutes. I like to add a drizzle of olive oil about 3 minutes in.

Once the dough has formed into a ball and is "following" the around the hook; turn mixer off. Place dough into a glass bowl that has been drizzled in olive oil. The olive oil will keep the dough from sticking to the sides of the bowl. Place a very warm, damp towel over the bowl and put the bowl in a warm or humid space for 45 minutes.

By this time, your dough should have risen a little to perhaps twice its original size. Once it has risen, you'll need to flatten it out into a pizza shape. Depending on your work surface or pizza pan, I like to roll mine out in the pizza pan itself. Use a rolling pin and start to roll the pizza dough out to the edges of the pan.

Once the dough has reached the edges of the pan, begin with the toppings. Take your can of tomato paste and spread it on the dough. To make it a truly Roman pizza, take your slices of mozzerella cheese and place six of them on the tomato paste. Take your tomatoes and slice them to a thickness you prefer. Place the tomatoes between and on the slices of cheese. Add fresh basil leaves to the top.

Once your toppings are complete, brush the sides of the pizza with olive oil. This will keep them from burning and will provide for a nice, golden color during baking.

Bake pizza for 15-17 minutes and serve.....