One of the fun things we enjoy doing as a family is making homemade pizza. Jim is mainly responsible for the pizza crust once I’ve made the dough using our regular bread recipe.

Once the dough is on the pizza cookie sheets, we cook them for about 8 minutes at 350 til they are fully cooked:

We then add our secret ingredient to amazing pizza – basil pesto.  We grow our own basil, make pesto, and freeze it in ice cube trays for the winter:

Spread the pesto over the crust:

Add tomato sauce (seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, italian seasoning, and a pinch of sugar):

Add Parmesan cheese:

We then start topping the different pizzas with whatever we want.  This one got sliced yellow bell peppers and sauteed red onions:

We added sausage and pepperoni and bacon bits to some of the pizzas:

Followed by lots of shredded mozzarella cheese!:

Jade likes hers with just cheese:

Then pop it in a 350 degree oven til the cheese is melted:

Take it out of the oven and slice it up so it is ready to serve:

We don’t have any photos after this because it is so good we’re too busy eating it! 

Be aware that if you’re going to put as much topping on your pizzas as we do, you need to make sure the crust is fairly thick and thoroughly cooked before topping it.  If your crust is not sufficient to support all your toppings, you can always use a fork and knife.

Do you ever make your own pizza?