Homemade Pizza Like Your Favorite Pizza Joint

With the right recipes, ingredients, and equipment pizza making can be fun for the whole family. Create delectable pizzeria quality favorites like Veggie Four-Cheese Italian-Blend or Grilled Flatbread with Three Cheese Blend; Spicy Pepper Jack Cheese and Chicken or Pepperoni and Cheese Stuffed; Stir Fry Chicken with Imported Mozzarella or White Bean Hummus and Wisconsin Asiago Cheese at home that are as good as or better than what you can get in your neighborhood. Supermarkets, specialty stores and the internet have exploded the home pizza pie producing industry with ready-made pizza crusts and sauces, refrigerated and frozen dough, and kits with dough, sauce and toppings. You can put a pizza in the oven or on the grill in little time. These are great time-saving products that can be very good, but genuine pizza making starts with homemade dough, homemade sauce and high-quality, fresh spices, herbs, vegetables, meats and cheeses.

Professionals use high gluten flour that is often difficult to find, but slowly becoming more readily available. Still, these bags are usually sold in a minimum of 25 pound bags, often 50 or 100 pounds. To find these bags of specialized pizza flour you have to visit a wholesale baking supplier or internet vendor. The price for a bag of high gluten flour is not particularly expensive, but keeping and handling it properly can be a chore. High gluten flour is the flour of choice as it offers the toughness and elasticity not found in regular or bread flour. The taste and texture are also different. Finding high gluten flour is worth the investment and effort if you want to make great pizza at home.

A simple brushing with an herb infused extra virgin olive oil may be all you desire to top your dough, or you may wish to slow cook a pizza sauce from scratch using fresh tomatoes or canned tomato foodstuffs. Tomato based sauces can be simple preparations or time consuming, slow cooked, elaborate recipes that require a significant amount of time in the kitchen. Beyond traditional Italian-style pizza dough and sauce, the imagination can run wild and ingredients and flavors from international cuisines can be experimented with creating incredible new pizzas.

Whether you choose to whip up an authentic-style thin crust, or a more contemporary pie like Three Cheese and Wild Mushroom; Maine Lobster with Cherry Tomatoes; Taco with Cornmeal Crust; Grilled Foccacia-Style with Fresh Basil Sauce; Smoked Chicken Mexican-Style with Habanera Peppers; or even a dessert pizza such as Apple and Cinnamon, the possibilities are limited to the culinary imagination.

Head over to http://www.PizzaRecipes.com and try one of our delicious authentic pizza recipes, or choose a contemporary or international pizza recipe from our constantly growing selection of the best pizzas that can be made at home.