fast pizza dough

My youngest sister is about to have a baby, yes, a-n-y minute now...and the crazy thing is I'm baking as much as I did while I waited for our kids to be born. Luckily Sunday was Mother's Day, so I had an excuse to marathon bake/cook.

At my place I baked 2 dozen chocolate chip scones, and cooked pizza sauce; then I packed up half my kitchen, and continued the dough frenzy at my sister's: made pizza dough x 2, brownies, scrubbed dishes, then came home and made quinoa salad (will post later this week) for our dinner.

I normally make our pizza dough with 'active dry yeast', but Sunday I was on a mission, time factors etc., so I used 'instant yeast'. Here's how:

- in my large stand mixer bowl I mixed 1 package (8g) of 'instant yeast', 1/4 tsp salt, 1.5 C unbleached flour, 1 tblsp olive oil, 3/4 cup water, mixed it all up with a wooden spoon, then finished the dirty by hand
- didn't have a rolling pin or enough space to roll out dough, so I hand pressed it out onto a greased pizza pan
- added garlicky homemade sauce and fried onions and sweet peppers
- baked at 450 for approximately 16/17 minutes


My mother's day gift was hearing my husband tell me that it was the BEST pizza I've made to date.

Happy Belated Mother's Day! xo