I am in charge of making pizza for an upcoming melavah malka. I will not have much time after Shabbos to do any preparation. I would like to make dough ahead of time (perhaps with sauce/cheese already on it) so I can just stick in my oven ready to heat 'n eat (and shlep along in car)

1) Any decent pizza recipes that are easy?

2) Do I freeze it raw? partially cooked? etc. At what stage? I do intened to put veggies on 1 or 2 pies, but assume that needs to be fresh on motz'sh

3) I only have on shelf in my milchig oven, how long will it take me on motz'sh?

4)I only have one pizza holder thing-y (circle thing-y) is there a way I can easily storef/freeze them in the right shape for later use?

THANKS!

did that for dd's bas mitzvah; i burned out my oven and it was much easier.

do you want to use bagels?

I used homemade pizza dough, and had it ready in a pan for the girls, and they jsut chose their toppings. yu can even freeze the dough right in the pans.

Why would burning out an oven help?

I suggested that but we think everyone will like pizza better.

What size did you make the pizzas. How long did it take to cook? Do you have some more details you can please give me?

1 package of yeast
1 C. warm water
2.5 C flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
2 TBSP. oil

(I think...I hope I said this right. Pleats, is this correct?)

Dissolve yeast in water. Mix in the rest. Cover and let sit 5 minutes.
Roll out. Sprinkle oregano in pan and put dough in pan. Place pizza sauce on top, cheese, and any toppings you desire.
Bake in preheated oven at 425 for 15 minutes.

how much is that if we have a BIG package? How many spoonfuls?

our oven was basically fleishig, so we burnd it out to use it for milchigs.
bagels can be the crust of the pzza, rather than homemade dough.

I also use a big package.
I envelope = 2 1/4 tsp dry

It's cheaper that way

You're telling me!

Yup, just checked.
FYI, agent's recipe also works well after being frozen.

Is that FYI as in the h.com member 'FYI' or FYI as in 'For Your Info' as it can work either way here.

(just pointing it out, it really makes no difference to the post)

I noticed that as I was typing

i would suggest using a little more flour or your dough will be too sticky to roll out. 3 cups of flour for 1 cup of water.

the way i make my pizza is, i roll out the dough, sprinkle it with oregano and add slivers of garlic on top. i stick it in the oven for about ten minutes. Then, i add the sauce, cheese and the topping and stick it in the oven for an additional 5 to 10 minutes, or until cheese is nice and bubbly. Otherwise, the dough comes out too raw for my taste. I've made many homemade pizzas in my short lifetime and i can say from experience that this is the best!

looks like it won't be pizza after all. The transportation, re-heating will be too complex. Any other ideas of what we can serve that will be yummy - otherwise it will just be bagels and cream cheese?

I forgot to bring the recipe home, but I ended up making 4 pizzas off of a simple recipe I found in a cookbook we had at home. I made dough on friday and rolled out. Put in layers in fridge and motz"sh turned on oven to 500 and then added sauce/cheese to pies and baked. Everyone commented that they were surprised I could make pizza that looks so 'real' (thanks family for your vote of confidence!)

How many people did you serve? How many pies did you make?


Next time if you want, they sell ready-made pizza dough (already shaped and even slightly baked I think). It comes in a package of 2-3, just throw on the toppings and pop in the oven (or next time try a light whole-wheat crust, it's insanely good if made thin enough).

I believe it was 8 adults, 5 eating children (ranging from 1 - 10 years old)
I made 4 pies, but not all exactly same size (about 16" I would say).
Yes, but making your own is cheaper

Whole wheat flour isn't easy to come by for me for a few reasons.

Buy pizza dough at Trader Joes, the whole wheat is amazing.

DH and I do it all the time, we usually only bake it for 15 minutes or less on a very high heat. For those of you who do this alot (probably not FYI) a pizza stone is a great investment as it really does make great pizza.

Is there sugar in the dough? The one person who I would make whole wheat for can not have any sugar.

Perhaps I will try it, but I don't get to TJ very often.

Hmmm I'm not sure, I don't have the package anymore. We divide it up into 4 balls right away then freeze them so we can make them into individual toaster-oven sized pizzas whenever we want.

Make it for yourself and family!
Much, much, MUCH healthier than white flour (and it's never too late to start the kids on even better eating habits ).