Honey Whole Wheat Pizza Crust Recipe

My family LOVES pizza. We love to make it, buy it, try it you name it, we love Pizza. Besides making it at home we do love searching and finding new pizza places to eat, too. This pizza crust uses whole wheat. My family didn't know the difference and liked it. What flours do you like using for your crust? 

So with this in mind, I jumped at the chance to enter the Hodgson Mill Ultimate "Build a Better Pizza" Contest. Even though I think we make the best pizza today it is ever changing with time.We are always experimenting to create the best dough with the best toppings.  How about you?

Here is my submission for the Hodgson Mill Ultimate "Build a Better Pizza" Contest.

Homemade Honey Wheat Pizza Crust 

Ingredients

1 package Hodgson Mill Active Dry Yeast 
1 Tablespoon honey
1 cup warm water
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 cups Hodgson Mill Naturally White flour 
1 cup Hodgson Mill Whole Wheat Flour 
1/2 cup Hodgson Mill Yellow Corn Meal

Directions

*In a measuring cup, add water, yeast and honey. Let sit for a few minutes to get it bubbling and active.
*In a bowl or stand mixer, add in salt and flours.
*Add in yeast and olive oil.
*Mix together for 5 minutes and form into a ball.
*Let sit, covered for 20-30 minutes so dough can rise.
*Punch down and let rise for another 20-30 minutes. 
*Next, roll out pizza dough into the shape you want it.
*Sprinkle the yellow corn meal on your pizza stone or baking sheet.
*Add dough on top and press down.
*Get toppings ready during this time.
*Bake in a 500 preheated oven on a baking sheet or pizza stone for 10-14 minutes.
*Makes enough dough for 2 pizzas.

Honey Whole Wheat BBQ Chicken Pizza

Homemade Honey Wheat Pizza Crust recipe (above)
1 large, cooked chicken breast, shredded
1/4 of any BBQ sauce
1/4 purple onion, sliced thin
1 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup of cheddar or Monterey jack

1. Make crust. (Pizza Crust Recipe makes enough crust for 2 pizzas and the above ingredients are just for 1 pizza)
2. Spread on BBQ sauce.
3. Add on chicken, 3/4 of the cheese, onions and top with remaining cheese.
4. Bake 12 minutes and when the timer goes off it is done!
5. Eat.

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Calzone Bites easy recipe

Calzone Bites


Ingredients
15 Athens® Mini Fillo Shells
15 slices of pizza pepperoni
¼ cup pizza sauce
¾ cup finely shredded mozzarella
5 ounces pizza dough (1/2 tube)


Directions
1 teaspoon Italian seasoningPlace the shells on an ungreased baking sheet. Press one slice of pepperoni into each shell. Evenly distribute the pizza sauce among the shells followed by the cheese.

Roll out the pizza dough to the approximate size of the shell tray. With a small, round cookie cutter that is approximately the size of the shell, cut out 15 pieces. Place each piece of dough on top of the filling.

Sprinkle the shells with the seasoning and bake for 8-10-minutes in a preheated oven at 350°F. Serve immediately.Yield: 15 appetizersTips:

Create a vegetarian version using your favorite vegetable toppings instead of pepperoni.

Top with a dollop of sauce and garnish with strips of pepperoni.


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We love the pasta & brick oven fired pizza, family and college town atmosphere at the Carbondale, IL Pagliai's Pizza and Pasta Restaurant. This deal is now live and will end on Saturday, March 10th. The voucher is good through May 12th. This deal is great for a fun date night or a great way to save $ on a family meal.

Here is info on Pagliai's incase you have never been there. 

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Only the freshest, premium ingredients are used in preparing our food - fresh-made dough, preservative - free lean custom ground sausage, fresh spinach, green peppers, mushrooms and other fresh toppings prepared in our immaculately clean kitchen to provide you with gourmet pizza, premium pastas, and top quality sandwich meats. Our pizza and spaghetti sauces are wholesome mixtures of tomatoes, onion, garlic and assorted spices right down to the last dash of oregano. Diners may discover a few other family secrets as they watch their own pizzas being prepared in our open, easy-to-view kitchen and slid into stone hearth ovens.

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Southern Illinois Save 50% at Pagliai’s Pizza and Pasta!!!

Here is a HOT deal for YOU! Don't miss out on this 

Save 50% on Food and Drinks at Pagliai’s Pizza and Pasta!!!

We love the pasta & brick oven fired pizza, family and college town atmosphere at the Carbondale, IL Pagliai's Pizza and Pasta Restaurant. This deal is now live and will end on Saturday, March 10th. The voucher is good through May 12th. This deal is great for a fun date night or a great way to save $ on a family meal.

Here is info on Pagliai's incase you have never been there. Check out their website but come back here to go get the deal! 

HIGHLIGHTS from My Town Half Price

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Pinterest Link up! Join the blog hop

Happy Saturday!

Thanks for joining in for my 7th week of the Pinterest round up. Each Saturday I'm going to list some of my weekly favorites from my blog and a few of my friends. Ask to cohost and I will feature you, too!

YOU DON"T have to make a combined photo to participate. Link up any post that you want someone to pin for you! In turn you pin my post and another post! THAT EASY.

In the spirit of Pinterest, please pin this post and a few of the links posted. In turn your post will get a pin from me and others who link up. Feel free to use the linky to post your pin address, blog post or some of your favorite links, including your own!

Thanks to 3 Boys and a Dog and Crystal & Company for being cohost!

If you aren't on Pinterest and want an invite just ask and I will send you an invite.

I"m celebrating Mardi Gras and a few other fav. pins this week. Check them out! 

1. Homemade Honey Pizza Crust & other pizza recipes

2. Heart Shaped Soap with FREE Printable and Mommy Solutions

3. Mardi Gras Wreath

4. French Vanilla Butter Rum Mardi Gras Cupcakes

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Easy BBQ Chicken Pizza with Honey Pizza Crust

This is our easy peasy pizza using just a few ingredients. This is a good one to make when you have a little left over chicken, onions and cheese from other recipes. We love pizza and are always looking for new recipes to try. This one is a keeper and has been used over and over.

Honey BBQ Chicken Pizza

Homemade Honey Pizza Crust recipe
1 large, cooked chicken breast, shredded
1/4 of any BBQ sauce
1/4 purple onion, sliced thin
1 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup of cheddar or Monterey jack

1. Make crust. (Recipe makes enough crust for 2 pizzas and the above ingredients are just for 1 pizza)
2. Spread on BBQ sauce.
3. Add on chicken, 3/4 of the cheese, onions and top with remaining cheese.
4. Bake 12 minutes and when the timer goes off it is done!
5. Eat.

Told you it was easy. The only part that takes about 1 hour is the making of the crust so give your self time to make that. It really taste better than any store purchased dough or pizza. There are a lot of topping you can add to this Homemade Honey Pizza Crust. Have fun with it. If you come up with something new, let me know! 

This post is linked up to Miz Helen's Country Cottage Full Plate Thursday.

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Potato Pizza Crust

This is the first time that I experimented with a Pizza Potato Crust. I got the recipe from the cookbook 300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook's Guide by Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh. I played around with it to cook a new pizza recipe for my family. What are some of your favorite pizza crust?

If you like potatoes then this is your cookbook. I could not believe all the different varieties of recipes in this book. I tried the pizza potato crust because it was truly something I would not have thought of on my own. The description of the recipe is the reason why I tried it.

"As un-classically Italian as this preparation may sound (full recipe Potato-Crusted Margherita Pizza) it is actually a traditional recipe style from Apulia, in southern Italy. I first had this at a little sidewalk bakery cafe in the city of Lecce."

Potato Crust

Ingredients

1 large floury potato, peeled and quartered
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup all purpose flour

Directions

1. Follow Step 1, *Classic Mash Deluxe (pg. 50), adding only 1/4 tsp salt to cooking water.
2. Preheat oven to 450. When done with Step 1, transfer cooked potato to a bowl. Using a potato masher, mash potato with 1 Tbsp of oil. Knead in remaining 1/4 salt and flour, adding flour a little at a time until mixture forms a soft dough (if dough is sticky after using the recipe amount of flour, add a little more or even a little water to help the dough come together). Shape into a disk on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a 12-inch round.
3. Transfer dough to pizza pan or pizza stone that is lightly greased. Add toppings and bake 15 minutes or until edges are golden.

*Classic Mash Deluxe for this recipes just means that you place the potato in a saucepan and add cold water to barely cover it, add salt. Cover loosely and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and cook for 20 minutes or until the potato is tender all the way through when prodded with the tip of a paring knife. Drain, leaving potato in saucepan. Return to very low heat and shake the pot back and forth to remove any trace of moisture. This will make the potato dry, light and fluffy.

CLICK, here to get the Potato-Crusted Margherita Pizza Recipe.

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Freschetta Giveaway for National Bread Cancer Month

October is National Breast Cancer awareness month and Freschetta has rolled out their Proud To Support Pink Program! Check your specially marked packages of Freschetta pizzas and Artisan Pizza Crust for codes to enter at ProudToSupportPink.com. For each code entered, they will donate $1 to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. How awesome is that?

They are also giving away 50 pink iPod Shuffle players each week to people who participate & share the campaign as well as 50 to cancer centers around America for breast cancer patients during treatments. Such a super idea.

Help them reach their $50,000 donation goal by entering your codes and spreading the word!

How about a giveaway on my blog from Freschetta. They have 2 pair of Pink headphones and a coupon for a FREE FRESCHETTA PIZZA! How sweet is that? 

We love Freschetta Pizza because of all the fun and creative toppings they offer.

Click below at READ MORE to enter.

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Make Your Own Pizza for Kids

My girls LOVE to make their own pizza! This tradition goes back to toddler times of making english muffin pizzas. Then, it evolved into tortilla shell pizzas over the years. Finally, we have moved on to forming the dough into pizza shape and adding special toppings. Pizza is very important to this household. We share our tradition during sleepovers, homeschool lunches and youth group dinners. I do see a change coming in the near future! We want to make our own dough.

Since this post went live in 2009 we do make our own homemade pizza crust and love trying different varieties.

MYOP (Make your own Pizza)

CRUST

You can't have a pizza without the crust. I just eat the toppings at times but you still need to bake it on the crust! Right now we go super quick and use Pilsbury pre packaged pizza dough. We just open up a can and break it into 4 parts. Each person then forms the crust to their liking! Thick or thin - up to them. (We plan on experimenting with home made doughs again. We are looking for a crispy crust, tossed crust and deep dish doughs so please share)

SAUCE

They say the secret is in the sauce. We have no secret for these MYOP. They like plain and simple can tomato sauce. We have the sauce people and the no sauce people.
SPICES
I set out garlic powder, italian seasonings, basil, fresh chopped garlic, etc. They experiment with the spices. EVOL - Extra Virgin Olive Oil is also used. Some like to add it to the baking pan and put dough on top and then add more EVOL.

TOPPINGS

Can you say smorgasboard? Fresh mushrooms, canned mushrooms, pepperoni, veggie sausage, ham, black and green olives, pineapple,chicken, fresh garlic, onions, green pepper, jalapeno peppers, etc. It is FUN when the children bring their favorite topping! Very seldom do we get repeat toppings! I would love to have an adult MYOP party! Bet the toppings would be really really fun!
DON'T forget about CHEESE! Parmesan and Mozzarella are the cheeses the children want!

BAKE at 375 for 10-15 min. Just watch for it to get bubbly and toasty and take it out! I let them use a pizza cutter and or scissors! They love cutting it their way!

I always have leftover toppings. I store them in labeled freezer bags.

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Family Favorite Pizza Soup Recipe

******PIZZZZZA SOUP******

This pizza soup is such a fun and yummy soup. This is easy to cut in half and or double for large crowds. This amount here will make a large crockpot full. I don't leave out ingredients my kids might not like so instead they try it and if they don't like it then they politely have to pick it out. This is one of our go to fall recipes.

Ingredients

--2 jar (14 oz) of pizza sauce
--3 empty jars full of water (this time I used lg can of tomato juice- much better)
--3 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
--1 freshed chopped jalapeno
--1 lg red onion, chopped
--1 jar sliced mushrooms
-- 2 lg can petite diced tomatoes
-- 3 lb ground turkey or beef or Italian sausage-any kind (turkey, chicken, pork,etc whatever meat you prefer
--1 lg sliced pepperoni, sliced in quarters or as circles
--8 fresh basil leaves, chopped (or 1 T dried)
--1 T dried oregano
--1/2 to 1/3 cup of dried pasta (I don't add the pasta to the soup...I let people add it themselves)
--shredded mozzarella cheese (to add later as a topping)

Directions

Use a large Crockpot for this recipe.
Serves 10-12 hungry adults with leftovers.

Wash and prepare veggies. Dump them into the crockpot. Cut up the sausage into small pieces--I sliced, then cut the pieces in fourths ( or dump in the other meat raw as it will cook in the crockpot) Add to crockpot. Cut up the pepperoni, add it, too. Add basil and oregano. Pour in the pizza sauce, and follow with three empty jars of water (or lg can of tomato juice).

COOKING

Cover and cook on low for 7-9 hours for the flavors to meld. It will smell very good! Try to not keep opening the lid of the crockpot. Make it when you will be out of the house. (lol)

Thirty minutes before serving, add the dry pasta. It can take 20-30 min to cook. I prefer to make the pasta separate and let people add it to their soup.

Garnish/top with shredded mozzarella cheese.
Serve w/ garlic bread! YUMMY-OOOoohh

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