Making homemade pizza was on  the menu for Jamie Oliver’s

recipe of the week.  I thought that would be a fun thing to do with my kiddos.   We’ve been a tiny…wee little ity bity obsessed with Jamie Oliver and his Food Revolution platform …just a little…so when I told them we’d be making pizza and maybe we can even show it to Jamie via on the Noddleonthat Food Revolution Community FaceBook page they were bursting with excitement!  I had good intentions of using his basic pizza recipe but was limited on time.  His dough recipe stated that it had to rise for about 45minutes, well by then my kids would have been starving and it would have been past their bedtime and all would just go down hill with spats of drama and whiny -ness.  I decided to grab my recipe box from allrecipe.com and found a quick and easy pizza dough recipe that said it could be done in 35minutes from start to finish.   All we had to do was mix up the 4 ingredients, then add in oil and warm water, combine everything until it makes a dough.  Next you plop it onto a pizza stone and shape it, VIOLA! Pizza dough fast and easy!  I will still make Jamie Oliver’s recipe someday, I just have to be better at planning ahead when it comes to cooking with little ones.

I made Souk’s (my very talented oldest sister) famous semi-homemade red sauce, and tweaked it to fit my family’s needs.   Then we put it on the dough, divided into four sections so each one of us can add our toppings we like and threw it in the oven to bake.  While it was baking we nibbled on the toppings.  The kids favorite was fresh cut up pineapple chunks.  My kids thought the dough tasted like biscuits after it was cooked, they liked it.  My husband said it tasted a little “doughy”.  I thought it tasted better than expected.  Not the best I’ve tasted, but good for a fast and easy recipe to make.

I don’t know how to make a printable recipe page yet but if you want the recipe you can copy and paste to your favorite program.  For the dough recipe just click on this link  allrecipe.com pizza dough

.  They have a neat setup that you can print in various sizes and with pictures as well.  I always like reading other people’s comments about the recipes.  It gives me good ideas.

Recipe:

Toppings we used:

• red and green bell peppers
• baby bella mushrooms
• fresh pineapple thinly sliced
• pepperoni slices
• shredded mozzarella and cheddar cheese

Modified version of  Souk’s red sauce:

• 1 can (26 oz) Del Monte Spaghetti Sauce ( I like Chunky Garlic & herb)
• 2 cans Hunt’s Tomato Sauce
• 4 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 1 tsp black peppers
• 1/2 tsp powdered garlic
• 2 bay leaves

Directions

Combine all of the ingredients, mix well and cook for about 15 minutes to 20 minutes. Stiring occasionally.

*NOTE* This recipe makes about 8 quarts but have no fear, you can either freeze until next time or use it for Spaghetti and Sauce or in lasagna.