Pizza Dough or Foccacia Bread

Ingredients

1 Tbsp. sugar

1 cup warm water (temperature 105 degrees)

1 envelope of active dry yeast

1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil

3 Tbsp. of oil for bowl, baking pan and bread

1 Tsp. salt

4 cups of all-purpose flour

In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar in the warm water. Sprinkle the yeast over water, stir gently until dissolved. Let stand in a warm place until a thin layer of foam forms on the surface, about 5-10 minutes.

Combine oil, salt, 4 cups of flour, and yeast mixture in a food processor using a dough blade and the dough setting.

Pulse the food processor until dough is formed. If dough is too sticky, add more flour. If dough is too dry, add more water.

Transfer dough to lightly dusted (with flour) cutting board. Knead until smooth and elastic. Add remaining flour as necessary to make dough not sticky. Shape dough into a ball.

Place in well-oiled bowl and turn dough to coat completely. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm, draft-free place until doubled in size -- 1 to 3 hours.

Gently punch down the dough roll on a dusted board. Form into a pizza crust or (to make foccacia bread) form it into a rectangle and place on a cookie sheet.

Pat the dough evenly, cover and let rise for an additional 30 minutes.

At this point, if you want to make pizza, add your toppings and bake until crust is cooked and toppings are hot (15 minutes in a 350 degree oven). Or get fancy and grill the pizza.

To grill the pizza:

- brush olive oil on one side of crust

- put crust olive oil side down over medium heated grill

- grill crust for 2-4 minutes or until crust is cooked. watch carefully so you don't burn the crust

- brush olive oil on other side of crust.

- place pizza toppings on already cooked crust side

- place pizza back on grill and cook until topping are heated through

To make foccacia bread:

1 Tbsp. sage

1 Tbsp. rosemary

1 Tsp. coarse salt

Dough should be on cookie sheet. With your fingertips, make indentions about 1 inch apart all over the surface. Brush dough with olive oil. Then sprinkle with sage, rosemary and salt. Bake until golden brown about 15 minutes in a 400 degree oven.