She said I was Crafty.. But Not In A Bad Way: February 2009

Alrighty! I tried to post this the other day but my computer was decidedly uncooperative. So now I'm back for another try.

My wonderful sister made pizza from scratch last week and that got my mind thinking. I remembered seeing that my bread maker had a pizza dough function. I stored that little bit of info until the day before yesterday when I decided it was time to try it out.

I wasn't planning on making pizza for supper so the plan was making the dough to freeze and using it at a later date. I used the recipe that came with my bread maker.

I LOVE my bread maker! Best Christmas present ever! You'll see more of this bad boy. lol It's sitting on my stove for this recipe but I don't normally use it there. I have a tiny kitchen with very little counter space and I already had the slow cooker working.

OK.. back to the dough..

So first I got the ingredients together.

This recipe called for:

1 2/3 cups water( 80F or 27C)
2tbsp. oil
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. dry milk
4 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. dry active yeast

All the ingredients are added to the bread maker pan in that order with the yeast being added last in to a shallow well you make in the flour.

I set it to pizza dough and let it rip!

This is what it looked like before I tipped it out on to a floured board.

I divided the dough up in to three balls. It made more than I thought it would but I'm totally sure I can make and eat 3 pizzas. ;) Erynn was all over this part too. She wanted to play with the dough.

After I divided it I wrapped each ball in Glad Press N Seal Freezer.

OK.. I need to take a moment here to tell you how much I LOVE this press N Seal stuff! It's fantastic!! Unlike saran wrap, when you pull off a piece of press n seal and it sticks to its self it just comes right apart. It's the handiest wrap ever. I use it to cover anything and it sticks to most anything. You can open and close whatever you've wrapped over and over again without a single issue. Yes, I love this stuff.

Back to the dough..

I'm an anal sort of gal so I then put my wrapped dough in freezer bags and labelled them.