Meat Lover's Pizza Recipe

Last week, John and I came up with one of our favorite new pizza recipes: our version of a Meat Lover's Pizza. After dinner last week, I had two requests for this one as a take home pizza, so it was a pretty popular one. Here's what you'll need to make this tasty dish:

Dough
1 tablespoon yeast
1 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoons olive oil

Dissolve the yeast in 1/4 cup warm water with the pinch of sugar (or honey, if you'd rather)
Mix flour and salt
After yeast starts bubbling, add to flour/salt mixture
Add the remaining 3/4 cup warm water and olive oil
I throw all these in my Kitchenaid stand mixer, and let the dough hook work it's magic.
Let this dough rise for at least 30 minutes, or several hours. You can store extra dough in the fridge and it is actually even better the day after you make it.

Sauce
You have to make a fresh sauce with this one (no canned sauces please!), and here is the recipe for the red sauce I use:
4 whole tomatoes, chopped
6-8 gloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon fresh chopped oregano leaves
6 large fresh basil leaves (I pulled mine off the Aerogarden)
1 tsp sea salt
fresh ground pepper
2 tablespoon tomato paste

Cook all together until it smells like a a dreamboat in your house. You can either use it as is or blend it for a smoother consistency. I like to blend mine--I'm kind of a texture person.

Toppings
For the toppings, add prosciutto, Boar's Head dry salami and spicy sweet sausage. For the sausage, John came up with the ULTRA brilliant idea to cook the sausage in honey, and I had the idea to add some extra crushed red pepper. The result? A little slice of heaven.

To build your pizza, roll out a small ball of dough until it is very thin. Place rolled dough on a pizza paddle and add sauce, cheese and toppings. Transfer to pizza stone and cook for about 10-12 minutes at 425 degrees. Try this at home and let me know what you think!