Kevin Rice's Pizza Recipie

Tools / Dishes:

• Large mixing bowl (one about big enough to hold a football or high-heeled shoe)
• 2 small mixing bowls (cold cereal sized)
• frying pan, 10-inch diameter, to brown meat in.
• 9 x 12 x 2 baking pan (that's a 9-inch by 12-inch pan with 2 inch high sides), either metal or glass.
• wooden spoon
• spatula (optional)
• cheeze grater if not buying grated cheese
• Pizza cutter or sharp knife (be careful with knife if pan is nonstick!)
• Stovetop and oven

Ingredients:

• 1 box Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix (in a blue and white box)
• 3/4 pound Mozzarella Cheese (may want to buy grated cheese)
• 1 pound Meat (sausage, italian sausage, or pepperoni)
• 2 cloves garlic (or garlic powder equivalent)
• 1 can (8-ounce) Tomato Sause
• 1 can (6-ounce) Tomato Paste
• 1 can (2-ounce) Mushrooms
• 1 green pepper, diced (optional)
• 1/2 small onion, diced (optional)
• 4 tablespoons olives (optional)
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 tablespoon Oregano
• 1 teaspoon Basil (for use with sausages)
• 1 teaspoon Aniseed / Anise Seed (for use with pepperoni)
• 1 pinch salt
• lots olive oil
•  warm water

Preparations:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Grate Cheese and set aside
3. Brown meat:  Defrost meat in microwave if not already unfrozen.  Put meat in frying pan.  Add 1 cup water to frying pan.  Heat over medium heat until meat is completely brown.  While meat is cooking, break meat up into very small pieces.
4. When meat is done, drain liquid off into sink, put meat on paper towels, and set aside.  Make sure to meat is finely diced during cooking.
5. Open sauces and mix them together in a small bowl.
6. Add oregeno and salt to the sauces
7. Add either basil (if you’re using sausage meat) or aniseed (if you’re using pepperoni) to the sauces.
8. Mix the sauces very well.  Set aside.
9. Open hot roll mix.
10.  Empty flour packet into a big mixing bowl
11.  Add margarine or butter to flour in big mixing bowl
12. --  DO NOT USE EGGS (ignore the box directions)
13.  Put 1 and 1/3 cups of warm (NOT HOT) water into second (empty) small bowl, add yeast.  Stir yeast/water to mix them.
14.  -- As soon as the yeast is wet, you have about 15 minutes to finish this recipie for best taste; don't worry, just don't waste time ---
15.  Pour the yeast and water mixture into the flour bowl; mix with a wooden spoon until you can’t anymore because it’s too thick.
16.  Pour a large amount (about 2 tablespoons if you must measure) of olive oil on hands, rub until hands are well covered with it.  This stops the dough from sticking to your hands
17.  Grab the dough and start manipulating it / kneading it so it’s mixed better than the wooden spoon would be able to do.
18.  Put down the dough in the bowl and put more olive oil on your hands
19.  Pour 2 more tablespoons (at least) olive oil into the 9x12x2 pan and coat all of the inside with it, spreading it with your fingers.
20.  Put the dough in the 9x12x2 pan and spread it out as evenly as possible, leaving no holes, and going slightly up the sides of the pan if possible.
21.  Sprinkle some more olive oil on top of the dough, spread it evenly to get the dough good and wet with oil.
22.  Pour on the sauces you set aside, above and spread evenly with a spatula (or your fingers)
23.  Sprinkle cheese evenly across dough, but use less towards the edges (it burns if it’s too close to the edge, 1 inch or so is good)
24.  Add garnishments like the mushrooms, green peppers, onions, etc.
25.  Add Meat.
26.  Put in oven.  Bake at 425 degrees for 18 to 25 minutes (average is about 22 minutes in a metal pan, 26 in a glass one).  Crust should be brown.

Notes:

• My dad would make this pizza for all my sisters’ and my parties, as well as his own, for as long as I remember.  It’s the one thing besides pancakes he could cook.  I am passing on the tradition and secrets to you:  The real secret is the olive oil.  Use a lot.  It’s very good for you, much better than any other kind of oil.
• The meat should cover the cheese so the cheese won’t burn (get hard and crusty).
• Use only Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix.  Others are untested and possibly not good.  If Pillsbury is not available, use what you have and prepare as above - use NO EGGS.
• The more olive oil you use, the more juicy the pizza.
• Waste no time in dough preparation for best consistency.  If you wait more than about 15 minutes between mixing the yeast and water and putting it in the oven, the crust of the pizza might have big pockets of air in it.
• This pizza freezes very, very well.  Wrap in saran wrap or put in ziplock bags.  Remember how big a serving is when doing this.
• To reheat, microwave on low until defrosted, then just heat to taste (in general, cheese will not defrost on High - it will melt the outside but the inside will be frozen.  Trust me, defrost in a microwave on low until it’s unfrozen.
• Preparation cost:  20 minutes of your time (30 for first-timers), about $8 to $10 in materials.
• Makes:  About 15 pieces.  This is thick pizza, 2 pieces of 3 inch x 3 inch will fill a normal human stomach (are you inhuman?  Then 1 or 3 pieces.  Whatever.)
• Enjoy!!!
• This recipie brought to you by Kevin J. Rice, Kevin@JustAnyone.com, http://www.justanyone.com
• Feel free to email me with your experiences.