We all think of getting a pizza as the quick and easy way to get dinner done when your craving some cheesy goodness.  In this March of eating in, however, that’s not an option.  So Erin and I figured, what the hell,  lets make it ourselves.  After all there’s a pizza place on every corner, how hard can it be?

Famous last words I tell ya!  Its way harder than it looks, but the outcome was worth it.  The first step in this whole process is to preheat your oven to 400.  You need that oven pipping hot when its ready.  Then have your dough ready.  In our case, we used fresh pizza dough from fresh direct.  Spreading it is possibly the hardest part of the job.  Trying to keep it round but thin.  This is where you see those guys throwing the dough up in the air.  (I do not do this fearing the obvious consequence of gravity)

Once you get it round and flat as you can pour a little olive oil on the dough and rub it in over the whole top.  Then take some freshly grated mozzarella cheese and put a nice thick layer.

On the side, you should mince up some garlic (dont’ be shy here, I used about 5-6 cloves for both pizzas), and really small chopped fresh broccoli. Take your minced garlic and spread it out evenly over the cheese and kinda press it in.  You want it IN the cheese, not on it.  Then take your broccoli and strategically place and press them in too.

Now my pizza was certainly a little thicker than the real pizzas, but I just called it Chicago style and moved on knowing i was going to have a very doughy pizza.  Oh well.  This is what mine looked like pre-oven.

Toss that bad boy in there for like 15-20 minutes.  Check on it, if the broccoli and cheese start to brown, then your done.  Take out and enjoy!  Pizza Da Pie!