Whole Wheat Dough

so, i made pizza again tonight.  but i forgot to take pictures - which shouldn't make too big a difference since i still haven't figured out the posting of the pictures.

anyhoo...

i hadn't planned on making pizza tonight.  but greg came home from work early and i needed something quick and easy.  i had to work with what i had on hand and improvise my toppings.  but i decided i would try a whole wheat crust.  though i had an actual recipe for a whole wheat crust, the recipe made enough dough for 6 crusts.  and cutting the recipe in half was too much math.  and i didn't have "whole wheat pastry flour" - just plain whole wheat flour.  in fact, i'm having a heck of a time finding whole wheat pastry flour.  but that's neither here nor there.

so i decided to stick with the same recipe, just sub the white flour for whole wheat flour.  and actually, i used graham flour instead of regular whole wheat flour.  i got the graham flour in hopes of making a particular bread recipe because it said the graham flour has a better taste to it than regular WW.  i still haven't made that bread recipe.  but i've used the graham flour in other stuff so far and i quite like it.  i also added some ground flaxseed (1/2 cup) to the flour mix.  i think since i did that (and perhaps also because of the graham flour), i needed a bit more water than last time.  i just added water a little at a time until i thought it was a good consistency.

of course, being WW, it didn't rise nearly as much.  still, i cut the dough in half and saved the other half for another pizza.  i'm very glad i did that.  it would have been way too much crust to topping ration otherwise.  i happen to have some pork sausage, leeks, and mushrooms that we bought at the farmer's market last week.  so i sauteed all that up.  i cut some basil and sage from the garden and put that on after the sauce (just used jarred spaghetti sauce).  i had to make do in the cheese department.  no mozz.  so i put some provolone, farmhouse cheddar (white), and parmagiano regiano.

all in all it was a good pizza.  i don't think i've found my WW crust recipe.  but it wasn't bad.  the topping was really good and there was a lot leftover.  i thawed some puff pastry the other day that i didn't use.  i'm thinking about trying to make a version of birrocks with all that left over stuff.  and of course, i still have another pizza crust to use!

pizza is fun!