HOMEMADE PIZZA!!!! [Giveaway now included]

thanks now I am hungry as well :P looks nice! I am too lazy to make the dough..

Have made pizza myself in the past and it worked out great, but it has always been faster to get pizza elsewhere.

Homemade pizza is the best pizza. And you made a pretty delicious looking one right there. Green peppers are probably my all time favorite :p

My family and I do it each week and we have to use a different ingredient each time, no repeats for that year. It gets creative.

Nah, I never made pizza at home, but I made pretty much everything else that's standard tho. Gotta say, good 1st try there. I wouldn't know that just by loookin at picture.

mmh hhhmm
pizza
too bad there's no tasty pizza store in my area

looks delicious!
I made pizzas few times but it cost too much money here and it takes me too much time so i rather buy a pizza at grocery store.
Btw,i have one cooking in the oven atm hehe

That pizza actually looks really good.

Nice pizza for the first time...
I'm making pizza, and know to cook all kinds of dishes. Do not be affraid of the kitchen, kitchen is your friend, you know what u eat, etc...

That pizza looks delicious! Especially the jalapeños part =) I suggest you continue with the Italian theme and cook some pasta next with garlic bread! =3

Hardly do any cooking anymore, but I used to cook a lot. Pretty proud that I can make most things from scratch - including bread! In general, homemade food always tastes better and is often cheaper then pre-made or takeaway. Plus, you can cook it to exactly your tastes and control exactly what goes in. Also, no food poisoning (that you don't give yourself), so bonus! ^_^ Anyways, Grats and welcome to the world of cooking and don't get discouraged if you have a culinary failure here and there.

I grew up in NY and I love NY style pizza. It's so much better than the fast food style pizza you can get from the other places you mentioned. I left NY a few years ago and the pizza that's available now just isn't the same so I started making my own. I don't have a pizza oven so I can't get it perfect, but it's much better than anything else I can get locally. I like to top it with pepperoni, black olives, banana peppers, and red onions.

I also make my own bagels. There's nothing like a hard NY bagel. I'll post some random links I pulled out of my favorites about making bagels below.

I can post my personal recipes and instructions that I use for pizza and bagels if you are interested. I have them in a pile written on little sticky notes, lol. I really need to get them typed into a file so I can save them.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Traditional-Jewish-Style-Deli-Water-Bagel
http://www.annies-eats.com/2011/12/27/homemade-bagels-step-by-step/
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/bagels-366757
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/03/how-to-make-homemade-bagels-a-la-jo-goldenberg-recipe.html

This is the only picture I could find right now of one of my pizzas. This is probably from almost 2 years ago. The pizza is around 15". I make the crust a little thinner now and use less cheese.

View attached image.

Damn you for not writing the recipe in the OP.

The picture looks yummy.

Pizza is my favourite food because you can have it with literally anything, you can even have it for dessert with melted chocolate and some bananas and ice cream, god damn i love pizza, i love it so much, i can't decide on what to choose on your poll, because it's usually all good, homemade, restaurant, sometimes even the store-bought frozen ones (rarelly though), and yours looks so freaking good because bellpeppers and jalapeños are some of my favourite toppings. But enough about pizza, thank you for the giveaways.

Thanks for posting those giveaways :D
Also, would be interesting if you can post the recipe you used. I for one am curious

looks nice, you got me wanting to make a pizza now >:) anyways thanks for the giveaway and the pizza making inspiration <3

you would be amazed at the random stuff you can throw together and stick in the oven and it comes out tasting sooo good

another which is good http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/oven-fried-chicken-1

Not sure if you used all purpose flour that the recipe calls for, but if you continue making pizza you should try using bread flour. I use King Arthur, you can get it in places like Walmart.

Some other things I like to make are beef stew, vegetable soup, deviled eggs, and italian dressing made with olive oil. I like to make my own salad dressing to stay away from the GMO soybean oil and all the other preservatives and junk they put in it. It's easy to make and you don't even have to refrigerate it.

I make absurdly homemade pizza, it's a 2 to 3 day process where I even make the cheese. Everyone who has ever tried my pizza says it is the best pizza they have ever tried. A recommendation for your pizza, is to let the dough age overnight. You will want to put olive oil over it (not cooking spray), cover it in plastic wrap, and put it in the fridge. Slow aging it like that for 1 to 2 days will bring out a remarkable flavor. Another huge improvement, which is a bit more pricey, is to use fresh herbs in your sauce. If you have never cooked with fresh herbs, read up on it before trying to, some things change.

EDIT: More tips
For each pizza, add 1TSPB to 1.5 TSPB of vital wheat gluten to the flour, it will increase the protein and make a significantly better, fluffier bread. If you get a high enough protein content, you can even toss the dough! Also, you should invest in a pizza stone, its about $12 or so; it will also significantly improve the quality of your crust. To properly use a stone, you will want to put the stone in the oven, heat the oven to the highest possible temperature, once it is heated, wait for at least 30 minutes for the stone to warm up, then add the pizza. You can add it using either a pizza piel, or by carefully removing the stone, putting it on some cotton towels which are folded over a few times, and making the pizza on the stone. Be careful! The stone is incredibly hot! If you get liquid on the stone itself while it is hot, it will crack and possibly even explode. When you are done, turn off the oven and let the stone slowly cool in the oven, take it out the next day.

Lol @ McDonalds votes >:]