Cooking Fresh Daily: Pizza with Jessica

My great niece Jessica and I finally had the same day off so we could get together for dinner and a movie. Dinner was fun, the movie was not so good. Don't worry about getting "The Bounty Hunter".
I decided to make margarita pizza, it was really pretty good for a quick dough. No time for the long rise type.

The ingredients

Pizza: I just think that your favorite crust is fine whether you make it or buy it. Whole foods has a dough that you can get in their deli pizza area that is great. I like to make a reduced marinara for the red sauce, it works very well. Just use a couple cans of tomato sauce, about 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, chop some onion, garlic, and a combo of herbs like oregano, thyme, parsley, rosemary. Saute the onion and garlic and mix them with the herbs into the tomato sauce. Simmer until reduced to a thick sauce. I also add a pinch of sugar to the tomato and some salt and pepper.

Slice some tomatoes thinly, chefanaude basil, pat a log of fresh mozzarella dry and slice the pieces about 1/8th in. thick,

Roll dough and spread on
tomatoe sauce

Preheat the oven to 450-500 degrees, roll out your dough, spread on the sauce, place the mozzarella and tomatoes evenly but not touching each other over the top, you can also use some parmesan grated if you like. Sprinkle on some olive oil and place it in the oven until golden brown. When the pizza is done top it with the fresh chefanaud of basil. Pour your favorite beer or wine and munch away.