Pizza Pizza!

This week's goal is to clear out the fridge of all the produce before it goes bad.  We had tons of veggies and tomatoes was one of the most abundant items.  Realizing that I had pepperoni in the freezer that I had made a couple months ago, the natural thing was to make pizza.  I had done the major prepping last night such as making the pizza sauce with all the tomatoes. 

Lets get on the story of how the pizza dough came to be.  I wanted a wheat pizza dough so I did a 1:3 ratio of whole wheat flour to AP flour.  I went ahead and added all my water in that I had measured out for the flour.  WAY TOO MUCH WATER!!!  The dough was too wet and I had used all the flour I had already.  I was just going to let it be until I opened the pantry and found the tapioca starch.  I threw some of that in to make the dough more dry and crossed my fingers and wished for the best!

The end result of the dough was a nice crispy and chewy crust!  I am not sure what the tapioca starch did for the dough, but I would have to say, it does rank up there to your gourmet pizzas.

Veggies in the fridge included asparagus, squash and spinach. I cut up the asparagus into bite sized pieces, sauteed the spinach with some onion and garlic and sliced the squash thinly.

For the cheese, I had a block of Apple Smoked Gouda that I grated.

The homemade pepperoni recipe was inspired from a food blogger (I will give credit once i remember who it was) that I had made couple months ago. This was a long tedious process from curing to cooking time.

 

Ingredients before.

Pepperoni

 

 Ingredients ready to go on the pizza.

Pizza before it visited the oven.

The END RESULT!!!!!

I have plenty of leftover pizza dough and ingredients and will be making this again during the week!  Tell you guys what...I did not feel guilty after eating this pizza!