Some weeks are crazier than others and this one has been on the scale of 11/10. All good stuff going on, just lots of it at one time and trying to sort it all out can stretch my brain…to which my husband has a lovely saying for (leaving that one for the vlog).

In the same breath, it was also a good week to stretch some pizza dough and my cast iron repertoire. Watch this week’s video for my take on cast iron pizza and how never saying never is always a good idea. Because life and pizza are kinda the same…well, that may also be a stretch, but you’ll get it once you watch. I hope. And always, always cheese makes everything better – even if you don’t have the right cheese. But is there really a “wrong” cheese? I think not. Capisce? (I googled that, so I hope I’m both spelling and using it correctly.) If not, “scusa me.”

Taste buds don’t judge appearances.

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Cast Iron Pizza

Author Meredith Bernard

Equipment

• Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients

• 1 Cast Iron Pizza Dough
• 1 lb sausage, browned and drained
• 1 can tomato sauce 8 oz.
• 1 small onion, sauted with sausage
• 1 bell pepper or several mini sweet peppers, cut and sauted with sausage and onion
• 1 tbsp italian seasoning sprinkle over top of meat and veggies
• 1 cup mozzarella cheese

Instructions

• Make pizza dough and let rise while preparing toppings.
• Saute onion, peppers and sausage. Drain.
• Spread dough into slightly greased cast iron skillet (can use any size – larger the skillet, thinner the dough.)
• Pour tomato sauce evenly over dough and spread meat and veggies over.
• Top with italian seasoning and cheese.
• Bake at 425 until browned and bubbly.

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Easy Peasy Pizza Dough

Author Meredith Bernard

Ingredients

• 2 c White Lily Bread Flour (or any all purpose flour)
• 1 tbsp live active yeast
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2/3 c lukewarm water

Instructions

• Mix 1 cup of flour with all other ingredients.
• Add only what you need of 2nd cup of flour to form a “loose” ball – for best results, USE YOUR HANDS. Embrace it, it’s fun!
• Let the dough rest 10-15 minutes in a covered bowl, after rolling the ball in a little EVOO (that’s extra virgin olive oil – it’s extra good) OR put the bowl in a 200 degree warmed oven that you TURN OFF after it reaches 200 degrees.
• Spread out onto your choice of pizza pan or pizza stone (I also like to sprinkle a little corn meal on my stone to keep the crust from sticking) and add your favorite toppings
• Bake at 375 degrees for around 15 minutes or until bubbly. Take out of oven. Eat.

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By the time Friday night rolls around, my brain is usually as fried as my body after a week of trying to figure out what to cook for the same people at the same time every day. Thus enters #fridaynightpizzanight. Whoever invented it should be given a Nobel Prize. Or at least a “noble prize” from the “Guild of all Tired and Brain-Fried Mamas Everywhere” – if such a guild existed. And I’m saying it should.

For the longest time, I would buy frozen pizzas that usually looked so much better in the grocery freezer section than they ended up tasting on our blue flower Corelle Ware. So, I started making my own pizza – dough and all. And our world has never been the same. It’s better than what I would buy at the store and it isn’t hard. Y’all, it really isn’t hard and really doesn’t take as long as you may think. I don’t do hard and I don’t do tedious. So, if I can make my people pizza (as in make pizza for my people), you can too.

Enjoy!

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Easy Peasy Pizza Dough

Author Meredith Bernard

Ingredients

• 2 c White Lily Bread Flour (or any all purpose flour)
• 1 tbsp live active yeast
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2/3 c lukewarm water

Instructions

• Mix 1 cup of flour with all other ingredients.
• Add only what you need of 2nd cup of flour to form a “loose” ball – for best results, USE YOUR HANDS. Embrace it, it’s fun!
• Let the dough rest 10-15 minutes in a covered bowl, after rolling the ball in a little EVOO (that’s extra virgin olive oil – it’s extra good) OR put the bowl in a 200 degree warmed oven that you TURN OFF after it reaches 200 degrees.
• Spread out onto your choice of pizza pan or pizza stone (I also like to sprinkle a little corn meal on my stone to keep the crust from sticking) and add your favorite toppings
• Bake at 375 degrees for around 15 minutes or until bubbly. Take out of oven. Eat.

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