Take a pizza dough and roll it out, then cut it into 10-12 squares depending how big the dough is and how much you are going to fill it. Once cut up, add your favorite toppings but no marinara sauce! That will be used on the side for dipping. I didn’t have much in the house, so this was pretty simple – pepperoni, cheese and onion with some seasonings, but you can really use anything.

Once you have your insides on the dough, fold the corners over and tuck in. In a sprayed, round pan, lay the folded side down. Once you have them all in place, sprinkle some Italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese on the top and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

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Homemade Pizza Crust or Herb Wheat Pizza Crust
Pizza Sauce Version I or Version II
Mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
Onion, diced
Green bell pepper, diced
Mushrooms, sliced
Jalapenos, sliced
Minced garlic
Chopped olives
1 Italian sausage link
Pepperoni

First you want to prep the pizza dough. I tend to have several pizza doughs stored in my freezer for that just in case time. Prep whichever pizza sauce you want to use as well. I find that making one batch of the pizza sauce makes about three pizzas worth. So don’t hesitate to store it in the fridge and use at a later time.

While making the sauce, do that multi-tasking thing people talk about, and take the sausage and poke fork holes in it. Place it in water on the stove, heat can be medium-high. This will just help cook the sausage and drain the grease out of it. You can put the raw sausage directly on the pizza and it will cook, however it creates a grease that runs off and can make the crust soggy, so I suggest pre-cooking it. The sausage does not need to be all the way cooked through, once you remove it from heat, remove the casing and using your hands break up the sausage into pieces.

Turn your over on to 425 degrees and have the pizza stone in the oven while it’s warming up. Roll your pizza dough out, once you are done pull out the pizza stone and rub some oil on it. Place the crust on the stone and spread out pizza sauce. Add minced garlic and then the cheese. Put the rest on in this order: Pepperoni, Mushroom, Italian Sausage, Onion and Green pepper, Jalapenos and then the Olives. Sprinkle some Italian Seasoning and slide into the oven for about 15 minutes or until cheese is bubbly.

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Ingredients

• 1 12 oz. can tomato paste
• 1 1/2 c. water
• 1 tsp. ground oregano
• 1/2 tsp. basil
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 1/4 tsp. sugar
• 1/8 tsp. onion powder
• 2 garlic cloves, minced

1 cup flat beer
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast

Put ingredients starting with dry and then wet, putting yeast in last. Make a little hole in the flour to hold the yeast.

Put bread machine on pizza dough.

Once done, let cool and roll in flour. Place in Ziploc bag and put in fridge until needed.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 c. warm water
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 c. whole wheat flour
• 2 tsp. active dry yeast
• 2 tsp. oregano
• 1 tsp. dried red pepper
• 2 tsp. garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp. basil

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2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. garlic
1/4 c. diced onion
1 c. tomato sauce
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. dried basil
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
2 tbsp. tomato paste

In saucepan, saute garlic and onion until tender. Add seasonings and continue cooking. Stir in tomato sauce then paste. Simmer on low.

Makes 1 1/2 cups