Dough

Yesterday was a banner day! I decided to make my own BBQ sauce and in order to do that I had to grill some sausages. But for those, I of course needed some sausage buns. Fortunately I had half of my batch of Basic Dough in the fridge, so I divided it into 4 and rolled each piece out and put it into my baguette pan. I preheated the oven to 485F and baked for about 18 to 20 minutes with the convection turned off.

It is astonishingly easy to make your own pizza - surprising that not more people do it. And in fact it can also be rather healthy when done right. I always make a whole wheat crust - you can find my basic dough recipe here.

Simply roll out your dough, top with your favorite tomato sauce - spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, does not really matter. We don't even add herbs and spices and just go with what is in the sauce and meat. Add your sauce, add your meat, add your grated cheese, then optional items like the few olives we add in this video. This is just a very basic pizza shown here, but obviously you could add whatever you want like green or red peppers, mushrooms, and so forth.

This yeasted dough is really easy to throw together if you have a bread machine. Actually, even if you do not, mix it together just til everything is wet and then let stand covered in a bowl for 12 hours and let the gluten develop on its own. This is a new method I've just recently seen and will be doing a video for. Missing from this video is the addition of the 1/4 cup of olive oil - somehow I managed to mess up that clip while doing the video.

Mix

• 350ml water (or beer)
• 1 (generous) tablespoon honey