Pizza...Yes you can and it's OH so good!

For my family, pizza has always been a favorite dish. I've often made pizza at home, but we have also bought pizza and brought it home to bake in our oven and occasionally gone to a pizza restaurant. Going out to eat is something that we don't do very often, but we do have a few favorites we enjoy. Pizza has always been one of them.

Gluten-free pizza, until now, has been sad at best. Not even close to what we remember and crave. There is a pizza place in a town near our home that makes out of this world pizza, but the drive there is not something we do very often and their pizza is take out only.

Making gluten-free pizza at home has been a huge disappointment for us. I've made one or two that were a sad replacement, but just not what we really wanted and the gluten eaters in my house didn't care much for the result either. Remember, my goal is almost always to satisfy the gluten eaters in the house first, if they like it then chances are it's really good!

When I started making my flat bread, my mind went to pizza and I wondered if it would work. Not too long ago, I decided to just try it.

In the past, when making my pizza dough with gluten flours, I would add Italian spices, Parmesan cheese, garlic and onion powders. I did the same this time with my flat bread recipe. The only suggestion I would make other than that is to increased the salt to 3/4 teaspoon or even 1 teaspoon and cut the honey to 1 tablespoon. The herbs and spices add to your own taste.

When I made mine, I doubled the recipe for the flat bread to make two sheet pans of pizza. You could easily spread this dough onto a pizza pan or stone. One recipe should fill a large pizza stone, maybe two small pizza pans. If you want a thicker crust, use a smaller pan and spread it thick. In turn, spreading the dough thinner will produce a thin crust pizza.

In order for your crust to be fully cooked in the middle you will want to bake it for a few minutes before you add your toppings. This is especially important if you are making a thicker crust pizza. Make sure you have all of your toppings ready to go on when you pull it out of the oven. The faster you can put them onto your pizza, the better it will turn out. The crust tends to shrink a bit once you take it out of the oven.

Have fun with your toppings, you are only limited by your pantry's contents, your family's taste and your own imagination! We had pepperoni, cheese, olives and onions on ours. You could add pineapple, peppers, bacon, grilled chicken, garlic sauce, pesto, tomatoes, jalapenos, green onions, taco seasoned ground beef, sausage...the list goes on and on!

Have fun with it. Make personal pizzas for everyone and let them create their own pizza! I hope you get creative, share your ideas and give us all more ideas for creating a wonderful pizza in our own kitchens. This pizza is wonderful the second day also, just heat it up and eat it, or grab a slice from the refrigerator for a cold pizza snack!