Author: Eric

Its a tradition in our family that on Christmas Eve, we make pizzas. I’ve been trying to get a thinner crust on my home pizzas, but haven’t gotten there yet. Cook’s Illustrated just did an article in their magazine on homemade thin pizza crust recipe, and concluded that a long refrigerator rise helped greatly. So we’ll work on that.

You can watch the GardenFork How to make pizza video here. And if you’d like to make a pizza peel, we have a GardenFork video on how to make your own pizza peel here.

My current recipe for pizza is a simple dough, 4 cups of bread or all purpose flour, with 1 teaspoon of yeast, 1/2 tsp of salt, 2 tablespoons olive oil and about 2 cups of warm water.

Mix the dry ingredients, then add 1 cup of the flour and the oil, mix and then slowly add enough water that you can work the dough, but its not a sticky mess.

Knead for a minute, then shape into a ball and put in a bowl covered for a few hours. After it has doubled in size, or when you’re ready to make pizza, roll out your dough into 4 small pies.

Let these pies rest a bit, and you can stretch them out more if you like.

Add what sauce and toppings you like, bake in a preheated oven with tiles or a pizza stone at 500F for about 7 minutes.

Here are some photos from the Christmas Eve pizza baking.