I will make up for the delay with...

Pizza! Who doesn't love a good garlic pizza recipe? It is delicious and leaves some room for making it your own.

Ingredients

1 packet of yeast

1 Cup of tepid water

1 Tablespoon of sugar

3 cloves of garlic, chopped finely

1/4 Cup oil

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 3/4-3 Cups of flour

This makes one pizza with eight slices. Comparable to a medium pizza from Domino's.

-Dissolve the yeast in the water and sugar mixture for a few minutes. Mine usually takes around 5. But I like to really let it bubble up.

-Chop your garlic.

-When the yeast has made some bubbles, add your garlic, oil, and salt. Mix together.

-Add flour one cup at a time. I stir mine with a rubber spatula and keep doing so until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl with minimal stirring. Then continue stirring in flour by 1/4 cups until the dough is not sticky to the touch. This is all about watching and feeling. Every time I have made it, it takes a slightly different amount of flour, so use those eyes!

-Let the dough rise once. Punch it down. Then let it rise once more and punch it down again.

-Oil up your pan or pizza stone and stretch the dough by hand first and then on the pan/stone. Then, make a pizza however you would like. We keep it simple with Ragu pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni.

-Bake at 450 for twenty minutes. Again, the time can fluctuate depending on your oven, so watch it carefully.

-Pull out of the oven, cut it up, and enjoy.

Two warnings.

This is how much garlic you are supposed to put in a double recipe. But we like a lot of garlic, so we keep the 3 cloves.

You should be able to use whole wheat flour, but I have not tried. If you do, just play around with how much you will need.

This pizza has become a favorite around the Spieker house on Saturday nights. It looks a bit labor intensive, but the hardest part is chopping the garlic. I can usually have it made in about 15 minutes. Then give the dough a half-hour to rise each time. Stretching the dough takes about five minutes and assembling the pizza is a snap. So don't be discouraged. It's not hard and doesn't require much of your time. Enjoy!