Super bowl food

Sporting my Pats jersey while making the pizza!

This year we decided to have homemade pizza for the Super Bowl.  Even though this a semi-regular meal in our house,I decided it was blog-worthy on this special occasion.  I make the dough from scratch using high gluten bread flower.  (Sorry to all of you gluten-free folks out there.)  The recipe comes from my favorite bread book called  The Bread Baker's Apprecntice:  Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart.  link to book on amazon  I knead the dough with my Kitchen-aid mixer with the dough hook  for about 5 minutes, then I let it rest on the counter (covered in plastic wrap) for about two hours.  I like to roll it out most of the way with my rolling pin because it makes the crust more even.  I pick it up and stretch it over my fists just enough to make it fit into the pan.  I spray the pan with cooking spray and coat it lightly with corn meal to prevent the pizza from sticking.  (All of these are Peter's instructions in the book, I follow them as written and they work!)

The kids like to have sausage and pepperoni on their pizza.  Brian and I  like the "adult" pizza that has onions and green peppers thinly sliced on our mandolin, and kalamata olives, along with the sausage and pepperoni.  For sauce, we use Brian's homemade pasta sauce that we freeze in small batches for pizza night. We keep the cheese and meats in the freezer too, so we can have homemade pizza without a special trip to the grocery store.  This pizza was a great start to an exciting game!  Go Pats!

The "adult" pizza with onion, green peppers, black olives, sausage, and pepperoni.

I use the rolling pin to roll it out most of the way, then I stretch with my hands to fit the pan.

A gorgeous ball of pizza dough, well rested!

Three pizzas weren't  quite enough food, good thing Josh brought sushi too!