When the sun hits your eye like a big pizza pie....

Dough

4 cups flour. (I use high gluten flour. but bread flour will do)
~1.5 cups 2% milk.
Yeast 1 packet, whatever. You just need yeast
2 tblsp kosher salt. If you use table salt, use 1 tblsp
1.5 tblsp butter (soft)

Mix the yeast into the water and let sit for a few minutes

Mix the water and flour in a Kitchenaid until it's just coming together. Stop the machine and cover with a towel or saran wrap. Let sit for ~20 minutes.

After rest, add salt and butter. Mix well.

Roll into a ball and let rise until doubled in a covered bowl

That recipe made 3 pizzas. So plan accordingly. And I used a tomato sauce on these pizzas. If you want the recipe, let me know.

After the initial rise, I divided the dough into thirds and put the oven to 450. I thought I would experiment with a silver pan and a dark pan. Sure enough, the dark pan had a better, crunchier crust.

Here I got the cake pans and poured some olive oil in the bottom. enough to coat the bottom. I covered them and let them rise for a bit. This picture is pre-rise.













While I waited for the dough to rise I sautéed some schrooms with balsamic until nice and brown













Then let them drain. I hate soggy pizza













Then I gave the dog some ice. She loves her some ice



















After the dough had risen, I dressed it with tomato sauce, pepperoni, schrooms, and "cheese, Grommit". Let it go for ~20 minutes and this came out













After it cooled for a minute, the crust was nice and chewy on the inside. but crunchy on the outside