The Great Pizza experiment phase 2....

My pizza dough recipe ( http://cookingwiththedaddy.blogspot.com/2010/06/topless-is-not-for-pizza.html ) makes enough dough for 2 pies.  Making only one at a time I decided to freeze half.  Never having done that before I was wondering how it would turn out.  No need to wonder any more it works great.  I de-thawed the dough ball (lightly oiled and sealed in a zip top bag) overnight in the fridge.  You want to keep it cold to prevent the yeast from waking up too early.  I also treated it differently this time.  I took my pizza stone out of the over and lightly oiled it, placing the dough ball directly on the stone, I used my fingers to press it into a rectangular shape.  I then used my marble rolling pin to roll the dough out to the limits of the stone.  Now... to the toppings.

We picked our first 5 tomatoes off of our deck this week and they were ripe and ready so I sliced & seeded them.  I covered the top of the dough as completely as possible with the tomatoes and salted each one.  I lightly covered the whole top with some granulated garlic and spread on one half some fresh oregano.  On the other half I used a thyme, oregano and rosemary mix finely chopped.  On the mixed half I placed two thinly sliced meatballs.  I lightly covered the entire pie with cheese and did a light olive oil drizzle over the whole thing.  I set the oven at 450 and waited for the preheat to finish (I did not preheat immediately on starting as I wanted the extra time for the dough to rise and the wife was taking a much needed & well deserved nap).  I cooked the pizza at 450 for about 17 minutes where the cheese was starting to brown as well as the crust.  I removed the entire stone to the top of the stove and put the pizza on my largest cutting board.  12 slices later and we were in heaven.  The freshness of the tomatoes came through and the crust was thin, slightly puffy and that combo of crunchy and chewy that a good pizza crust should have. 

Technically the pizza was sauceless but the fresh tomatoes and olive oil made up for it.  The best part the entire pizza cost less than 1$, ok  the real best part was the yummy noises we all were making, but the low price really added to it.