Quick Pizza - Canadian Bacon and Pineapple

Ingredients:

-Dough. I didn't make it myself. Yeah its sorta cheating, but I bought premixed dough from Trader Joes for $0.99. Tough to beat, tasty too.
-Tomato Paste
-Tasty Italian Herbs (I used italian seasoning, savory, marjoram, oregano, whatever I felt smelled like I would like it in pizza. Oh yeah, and some chili powder for the sauce.
-normal pizza toppings. (meats, cheeses, etc)
-corn meal
-flour for rolling out the dough.
-olive oil

*protip: buy good quality ingredients. I get real canadian bacon, from a meat counter, cut off of a cured pork loin. Same with the pepperoni, from a real meat vendor, not the hormel packaged stuff. You will be happy you did this.

Get your tools out:
-Oven at 500°F
-Pizza Stone (required)
-Large Wooden Pizza Peel

Step 1:

Make your tomato sauce:

I used all the spices I listed above, tomato paste, water to consistency, salt (lots of salt), and garlic powder. its all to taste, but tomato paste needs a LOT of seasoning to get it to a good pizza sauce taste level. Garlic powder is a MUST.

Step 2:

Roll out your dough.

I let the dough warm up to room temp for about 45 minutes, gives it a few air bubbles but it rolls so easy.

Step 3:

Dust the wooden peel with cornmeal.

The cornmeal will help the dough slide off onto the pizza stone. I always roll the dough out on a wooden board and put it on the peel afterwards, you can adjust technique as you prefer.

Step 4:

Oil the Crust.

Putting a little bit of olive oil on the crust with your handy dandy silicon food brush, you can make a nice crispy browned edge of crust without it getting greasy/soggy from your pepperoni.

Step 5:

Add the sauce to the dough.

Pretty self explanitory, but try to make the sauce go out to the edge.

Step 6:

Put your toppings on the pizza.

This is the canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. Turned out really darn good. (see, the canadian bacon is shaped like a porkloin, not bologna).

Step 7:

Place it in the oven on a pizza stone at 500° for 11 minutes.

Here's the pepperoni pizza going in the oven. (check out my awesome centering). Shake the wooden pizza peel a few times to loosen the pizza before you try to slide it off, it takes a few times of doing it to get good at it, but it gets easy.

Step 8:

Finished: