Pizza

Originating in Italy, pizza is one of the greatest culinary inventions to come to America. Of course that is just my opinion. You don’t have to agree of course, though I wouldn’t tell anyone because you might get stoned. This is just one of the Pizzas I have come up with lately which is more traditional then the popular American style pizzas of today, if you haven’t tried one I highly recommend it. For this pizza I took a homemade Italian bread dough, but you could use any pizza dough you like, this is just a little more authentic, I cooked the dough in the oven, on my pizza stone at high heat until it was cooked pretty much all the way through, I then coated it with olive oil, put on some thick slices of fresh homemade mozzarella (Don’t worry, I am working on the tutorial now) spread some fresh tomato around, the sprinkled the top with sun dried tomatoes and fresh basil. Once everything was put together it went back in the oven just until the cheese started to caramelize. Remember to keep the oven hot, you will get a better crust, and more flavorful topping. The point of this method is to try and mimic a pizza oven in your home kitchen. It doesn’t take very long to cook a pizza this way so watch it closely.  of course you can put anything you want on top of your pizza, my favorite is a good barbecue chicken, but there is something uniquely special about the original napoleon flavor