pizza: I have just been given a pizza maker. How do you make your own base? I don't like the bases that you buy from the supermarket. What is your personal favorite topping?|||3 cups four, 2 tsp salt and 1 1/2 tsp yeast combined in a food processor (or bowl if doing by hand) Mix 1 1/4 cups tepid water and 2 tbs olive oil in a cup. With the motor running, slowly add the water/oil until it comes together. If doing it by hand, quickly mix with a spoon or your hands until the dough comes together. Dump onto a floured board and knead 40 times. Put in a bowl, rub olive oil over the surface of the dough and cover the bowl and let rise for a few hours. It's best made the day or two before you use it. Just let it rise for 1 hour, and refrigerate in a covered bowl (or ziplock bag). Take it out 2-3 hours before you need to use it. My favorite toppings are sauteed mushrooms, sausage, vidalia onion, margarita style (fresh mozzarella, sliced tomato and basil), and garlic pizza (my personal favorite). For garlic pizza, just saute 4-5 cloves finely chopped garlic in 1/4 cup olive oil quickly (do not brown the garlic). Spoon the garlic oil over the formed dough, salt and pepper the pie and top with mozzarella and fresh parm cheese.|||Making pizza dough is easy. It is a bread dough. 1 1/3 cups warm water (less than 95 degrees) 1 T. sugar 1 pkg. or 2 1/4 tsp. yeast 2 T. olive oil (or veg.oil) 4 cups of flour (can substitute 2 cups of whole wheat flour for white flour) 3//4 tsp. salt Put sugar in water and add yeast. Let proof (that means walk away and leave it alone for up to 10 minutes until it gets bubbly). Add most of flour, oil and salt. Let mixer with dough hooks do the work. Add the remaining flour only if needed. The dough should be moist, not dry looking, and form a ball. Let the mixer do the kneading for about 4-6 minutes. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes and then roll or pat to 16" circle (or whatever shape you want). Top with sauce and other toppings. Bake in oven until dough is golden.|||i buy a frozen bread dough thaw it work it onto a pizza pan add pizza sauce lot of mozzarella cheese pepperoni sausage onion greene bell peppers