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!
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