"pizza dough" news and stories

Grilled pizza is a pure summer pleasure -- and easier than you think. Here's how to do it.

Those metal pizza pans are great and all -- until the dough seeps through those holes and clings to the pan for dear life.

Being a bit of a bread friend, I try to keep some on hand at all times -- fresh when possible, and always at least a few slices in the freezer. But sometimes you just run out. Usually when that happens, I'll whip up a pizza with that quick and tasty dough I posted about before. But the other day, I was in the mood for eggs, and I just don't like having them without some sort of bread.

So, I decided to make a bowl-shaped calzone you see above. It's simple. After rolling out some dough, I sprayed a french onion soup bowl with non-stick cooking spray and used it to make a bowl out of my dough. I then put in a collection of ingredients that included eggs and cheese. I joined the dough at the top to seal it in, cut off the excess, and threw it in my toaster oven. The bowl allowed me to keep the gooey eggs and ingredients together without spilling, and the spray let the nice calzone slip out of the bowl with complete ease.

This can also work in a myriad of ways -- imagine using the same technique in small muffin tins and making pizza pockets or other hors douvres pastries, or putting a whole meal inside one -- like meatloaf with a good gravy, a tuna melt, or even a sort of pizza-themed pot pie.

In most cases, we look at finished products as Food Porn -- a colorful salad, a steaming soup, a steak with herb butter melting over the edges. In the case of food blog 101 Cookbooks, I suppose the first picture of the finished pizza topped with potatoes, cheese, and herbs in Heidi Swanson's post about pizza made of white whole wheat pizza dough is the natural pick.

However, I was totally drawn to the photo of the white whole wheat pizza dough -- perfect pillows of softly "buff"-colored dough flecked with herbs, resting, definitely qualify as "raw" porn. Heidi goes on to say that with this pizza dough, she got close to something she was looking for: "chewy, soft, and unstructured."

More on white whole wheat:
The definition of "white whole wheat"
Sara Lee's hot dog and hamburger buns made with white whole wheat