A lovely Easter...and then some.

Spent my first Easter in NC and LOVED it!
We spent the afternoon at Chris' mom's place. She cooked a spiral ham, potato salad, beets, some sorta cheese ball thing that wasn't really cheese (but still good), beans, deviled eggs, kielbasa, BANANA PUDDING (mmm). Needless to say, we had some leftovers to take home.

I was doing some "freebie" searching earlier and came across 24 hours free access to the cook's illustrated site. I was thinking about what we could do to use up the ham and somehow thought, "pizza". Weird.

Anyhow, I found a recipe on that site, hit the store and for $10 got all the stuff I'd need. Mind you, $10 bought enough flour to make a whooooooole bunch of pizzas so I estimate a homemade pizza costs no more than a couple bucks vs ordering.

I also got to use my food processor..bonus!

The recipe I'm gonna post is just the dough. It makes an AWESOME dough if you like thin crust. I was really impressed with it. Our toppings tonight was just ham/pineapple and I'm already thinking about what to do next time!

Pizza Dough

1 1/4	teaspoons instant yeast
1	cup water (8 ounces), room temperature
1 3/4	cups unbleached all-purpose flour (8 3/4 ounces), plus extra for dusting work surface and peel
1	cup cake flour (4 ounces)
1 1/2	teaspoons table salt
2	teaspoons sugar

• Whisk together the yeast & water in a measuring cup
• In a food processor, pulse the flours, salt & sugar a few times to mix through
• Slowly add the yeast/water mixture through the feed tube while the processor is running
• Let it mix for 2 minutes. If after 1 minute, it's sticking to everything, add a tbs or 2 of flour. If it looks dry/crumbly, add a tsp or so of water.
• Mix until the dough forms a satiny ball and comes away from the sides of the processor.
• Divide dough into 2 and place on a floured surface or baking sheet 3 inches apart
  
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap that's been oiled
• Let stand until dough doubles in size, about 1 hour
• Roll it, stretch it, do whatever to make a pizza...
• At this point, I didn't follow the recipe much anymore cause I don't have a pizza stone or any of that. I oiled a cookie sheet and stretched the pizza out as thin as I could
• Add toppings (ie. pizza sauce, ham, pineapple, mozzarella)
• Bake in preheated 500 degree oven with rack on lower level for 10 mins.

No pics cause we ate it and it was DEEEEEEEEEEELICIOUS!