Sylvia's Pizza Dough and Sauce

This is Trent's Mom's recipe. She said it is also a French bread recipe and will make two loaves. It makes a large pizza, but actually it ends up being a pretty thick crust. You could roll it thinner and probably make two medium pizzas.

5-6 cups flour
1 Tbsp yeast
2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
2 cups warm water

In kitchen aid put 4 cups of the flour, the yeast, sugar, salt, and water. Blend well, until smooth. Add the remaining flour once cup at a time until you have a medium soft dough. Knead in your mixer until it is smooth-about 8 minutes. Cover with a dish towel, and allow to rise until double-about 1 hour. Punch down and let rise for 10 minutes. Cover pizza stone with corn meal. Shape pizza to fit your round or rectangular pizza stone. Prick pizza dough several times with a fork. Then spread a thin layer (about 1 Tbsp) of olive oil over dough. Spread about 3/4 cup pizza sauce over dough. Place in preheated oven (400 degrees), and bake for about 10 minutes. At this point you can make the dough ahead of time, and add everything else (toppings) later when you're ready to eat. Sprinkle a lot of mozzarella cheese on top, then top with clean spinach leaves, chopped green pepper, sliced tomatoes, sliced zucchini, marinated artichoke hearts, etc. Sprinkle some salt over top and bake for about 15 minutes.

Pizza Sauce

2 8 oz cans tomato sauce
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Dash pepper
1 tsp basil
1-2 Tbsp parsley
1/2 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp oregano
1 tsp onion salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder

Place all of the above in a medium saucepan and blend well. Heat on medium for about 15-20 minutes. There will be a lot left over. She puts it in small jars in the freezer until next time. I usually just half the recipe.

Alterations
I use this same dough recipe, but make a bbq chicken pizza. Just make the dough, but add bbq sauce, cooked chicken, mozzarella chicken, and red onion (optional).