Bacon-tastic pizza

This pizza is seriously to.die.for.    You have to try it.  You have to.  If you don’t you’ll be so sorry one day when you’re dying of old age and you realize you forgot to try it.  Kind of like the commercial for that faucet where the old lady is dying and trying to console her children that she led a long, fulfilling life and that she was dying a happy woman.  Then she looks out the window and sees someone filling a bathtub using a fancy faucet and she dies right then and there without ever getting to take a bath in water from such a glorious aparatus.  Yeah.  Try the pizza.

I got the recipe for the dough from a Canadian internet buddy named Allison.  I’m not sure where she got the recipe, so for now I’ll just credit it to her.

Allison’s Whole Wheat, Flax and Honey Pizza Dough

· 1 Cup all-purpose flour
· ½ Cup whole wheat flour
· 2 tbsp flax meal
· 1 envelope (8g or 2 ¼ tsp) quick rising yeast
· ½ tsp salt
· 2/3 cup very warm water
· 2 tsp olive oil
· 2 tsp honey
· Nonstick Cooking spray
· Cornmeal

In a medium bowl, combine flours, flax meal, yeast and salt. Mix well.

Measure warm water in a measuring cup, stir in olive oil and honey. Pour mixture over dry ingredients and mix using a wooden spoon to form a ball. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface, knead for 2 minutes. Spray another bowl with nonstick spray and place dough inside. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until double in size, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, spray a 12-inch cookie sheet with nonstick spray and dust with cornmeal.

When dough has risen, turn out onto a lightly floured surface and, using a rolling pin, roll dough into a 12 inch circle.

 Transfer dough to prepared pizza pan. Top with pizza toppings and bake for 15 minutes in a 425 degrees F oven.

Or, prick crust with a fork and baked untopped for 6 minutes. Remove crust from oven, top with pizza toppings and bake for an additional 8-10 minutes. 

Kristan’s Bacon-tastic Pizza

• 6 oz. uncooked bacon, diced
• half small white onion, diced
• 2 oz. grated asiago cheese
• 1 whole tomato, sliced kinda thin
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• salt
• olive oil
• fresh basil
• 1 recipe Allison’s Whole Wheat, Flax and Honey pizza dough

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.  Place prepared pizza dough on a pan lined with parchment and dusted with cornmeal. 

In a dutch oven, brown bacon.  Add onion and cook until soft and golden.

Drizzle some olive oil on the pizza dough and rub it in with fingertips.  Place tomato slices on the pizza dough in one layer.  Sprinkle salt with minced garlic.

Spoon bacon and onions over the tomato slices.  Top with grated asiago cheese.  Tear basil into small pieces and spread around evenly on top of other toppings.

Place pan in oven and bake for about 15 minutes.  Allow to cool slightly and slice into 8 pieces.

Proceed to stuff face with delicious-ness.