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" My brother and his wife came over for dinner last night, and we made pizza. I loved the texture of this dough from Joy of Cooking, stretchy, smooth and yeasty. Pizza dough is a good entry into using yeast because it requires just one quick rise (it is, frankly, about as far as I&amp;#039;ve gotten). I made one plain pizza and one with ground beef and caramelized onions. I had hoped to make mushrooms braised in red wine, but things got kind of hectic at the end of the process, with all the topping prep work, fussy witching-hour baby, attention-deprived preschooler and dough circles spread out on every surface. Plus the blazing hot oven was making all of us sweat.  Still, pizza making is a lot of fun. I started about 2 hours before we wanted to eat. I dissolved 1 packet of yeast in 1 1/3 cups warm water. After 5 minutes the yeast was dissolved and smelled yeasty, but it wasn&amp;#039;t frothy or bubbling. I was a little concerned about that, but proceeded with the recipe anyway with no ill effect. I used half white and half white whole wheat flour, 1\u00BD of each to start. Two tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon salt, then stir. Then I kneaded it, in the bowl, for 10 minutes, dusting the dough with flour every once in a while to keep it from sticking. Then I formed the dough in a ball and put it in a big, clean oiled bowl. I turned the dough in the bowl to cover the dough with oil, then covered the bowl with a clean cloth and set the bowl on my stovetop (I had a pie in the oven, so it was a nice, warm spot). After about an hour the dough had doubled in size, so I punched it down, divided it into 2 balls, then covered them with plastic wrap. Let it rest for 10 minutes, then tugged them into 12-inch circles on a flat baking sheet. Brush with more olive oil, let rest another 10 minutes, top with tomato sauce, toppings and cheese, then bake in a 475 degree oven for about 12 minutes.  Here are some other pizza ideas:  Sausage and Spinach Pizza (this one uses a homemade crust) Grilled Veggie Pizzas Alfredo Mexican Pizza What things do you make from scratch because you enjoy the process? \u2014 Kim Walker "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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