Let's Make Pizza!: A Pizza Cookbook to Bring the Whole Family Together

Up until recently, I was pretty predictable with the kind of pizza I ate. Always pepperoni. Boring. After being on Nutrisystem for 3 months, I grew to love their marghartia pizza and started kind of broadening my tastes. First and foremost, I prefer thin crust, but that could be because I never had a chance to try real good fresh made crusts. This book is definitely for the pizza lover that wanted to try new flavors. It starts out with the basics and talks a little bit about the essential items you need to make the perfect pizza. It's all about getting the flavor of each topping in every bite so it suggests not to completely overload your pizza with toppings. two to three is perfect. You learn how to make many different types of crusts including cauliflower, which I've been dying to try since it's so much healthier! For each recipe there is a little color coded guide so you know if that particular pizza is nut free, vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, and/or gluten-free. There are also fun facts and tips through the book especially tips about cooking with kids, because what kid doesn't love to help make their own pizza? Each recipe also tells you how many pizzas it makes and the size of each pizza, prep time, rise time for dough, and cook time. There is also a handy guide on how to freeze dough and use later. In addition to dough recipes, you will also find various sauce recipes. That alone should give you plenty of different options to make your own pizzas and experiment with flavor combinations. Then you get into different pizzas starting with your usual pizza parlor favorites, things like pepperoni, sausage, hawaiian. There are also recipes for more fancy pizzas like grilled clam and corn and fennel & fontina pizza with olive tapenade. There are even recipes for calzones and salads! This book is going to get a lot of use - probably more than all my other cookbooks- because I'm anxious to try new flavor and topping combinations. One thing I wish this book included was more photos! I love cookbooks with photos of the finished foods and this one was seriously lacking in that. This is the reason I took one star off. Other than that, I really enjoy this cookbook!I did receive this at no cost to thoroughly test out and provide my honest opinion. Your thoughts may vary from that of my own.

This book includes a nice introduction with tips on how to build the perfect pizza, tools you will need, and even how to host the perfect pizza night with your family. This book includes 75 recipes allowing you to make pizza entirely from scratch. There are nine recipes for pizza dough, including healthier options such as a gluten-free pizza dough and cauliflower pizza dough. There are 12 recipes for sauces and condiments, including a very easy to make no-cook pizza sauce. The pizza recipes are very exceptional. There are some traditional recipes but for the most part you definitely won't find these kinds of pizzas at local grocery stores or restaurants. Some of the more unique pizza recipes include a pulled pork, Brussels sprouts & purple cabbage pizza, roasted corn & smoky eggplant pizza, potato, pesto & garlic pizza, and Butternut squash pizza with bacon & blue cheese. This book also includes recipes for calzones and salads. If you're pressed for time however, you can always buy a store brought crust or sauce and the author recommends some of her favorite brands and where you can buy them.This is a great book with unique yet easy to make recipes that encourages you to get you family involved and make pizza night a fun night for everyone. While every recipe doesn't include a picture, the pictures that are included are sure to make your mouth water.Disclosure: I received this product at a discounted rate in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Pizza goes in to a 20 page overview of everything you need to get started: How to build, tools of the trade, prep, how to make it your own, and has other tidbits spread about. It covers all the basics you need to know to get to making your own pizza, even if you want to just buy the dough, sauce, and other ingredients. While not the most thorough, it’s enough to start getting your gears turning so that you start thinking about adding your own touch.In any case.. In to the actual dough of this book.. The remaining 160 pages of the book (minus some for a very well detailed index, resource list, glossary, etc), goes in to hundreds of detailed recipes. The meat of the details are split between how to make the dough, sauces and condiments, parlor classics, meat/poultry/seafood, vegan/vegetarian, calzones, and salads.Overall a very pleasant recipe book, and I would recommend it to anyone who has just finished building an outdoor pizza oven, or just someone who wants to add a new fun weekly dinner idea. My only gripe is that there aren't enough pictures, well; there aren't any pictures at all when it comes to the recipes. The inclusion of pictures would have netted a 5 star from me.I received this product for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

So call me crazy but I prefer the hard copy of books so I can see the pictures and get inspired. This book totally does that!The contents of this book are as follows: 1. It's Pizza Night, 2. The Dough, 3. Sauces & Condiments, 4. Parlor Classics, 5. Meat, Poultry & Seafood, 6. Vegan & Vegetarian, 7. Calzones, 8. Salads then the Appendices with The Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen, Measurement Conversions, plus references and an index of course.I love that this book is simple and easy to flip through to find what you need. Each recipe has arrows on the right column to tell you if the recipe is gluten-free, nut-free, vegetarian or vegan, which is very easy to spot. There's a Seasonal Spotlight for quick seasonal tips. Some recipes have a "Cooking with Kids" section with tips to make that recipe with your kids. There are 9 dough recipes so you're not stuck with the same old thing. There's a BBQ bit that discusses doing the pizzas on the grill which I LOVE to do. This book is also a great size that doesn't take over your whole counter while you're cooking. I love it! I received this product at a discounted rate in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Don't waste your time and money on it this book doesn't deserve it.