homemade pizza

I love pizza. I can't think of anyone I know who does not like pizza. Most folks get there pizza out of the frozen section at the supermarket when they decide to cook pizza at home. I tend to want better, not that the Red Barron is a bad guy I'm just not sure his pizza is all that great after spending month after lonely month in your grocer's freezer. So I prefer to make my dough and sauce from scratch. All of my toppings consist of fresh ingredients prepared very carefully, while the dough is rising. So whats my obsession with making everything from scratch? Well it all comes down to quality, flavor, and the never ending quest for the perfect homemade pizza. The better the quality the better the flavor. There are some key ingredients I use when making pizza and they are specific brands. The flour I have found to work the best and deliver the best tasting crust is King Authur Bread Flour. The tomatoes I use for the sauce come in a can, they are Mur Glen crushed tomatoes. The other key is fresh basil and the right oven temp.You need a really hot oven to make a pizza come out like a real pizza should. You need a $10 pizza stone which you can at Wal-Mart, and you need to set you oven to 525 degrees Fahrenheit. Most people also falsely believe that they need some fancy stand mixer to make the dough themselves but this is just not true.You can do it perfectly well by hand. So gather your passion and imagination and ingredients and make some real pizza already!