Making pizza at home is fun and easy when armed with the right equipment, ingredients, and recipes. Create delectable pizzeria quality favorites like thin or thick crust, Bacon Double Cheeseburger with Caramelized Onions

Or Grilled Pineapple and Pancetta, Chicken Caesar or Buffalo Chicken with Spicy Sauce, Cheese Steak with Provolone and Mushroom or Cheesy Chile with Ground Beef at home that are as good or better than what you can get in your neighborhood. Supermarkets, specialty stores and the internet have exploded the home pizza pie producing industry with ready-made pizza crusts and sauces, refrigerated and frozen dough, and kits with dough, sauce and toppings. You can put a pizza in the oven or on the grill in little time.

These are great time-saving products that can be very good, but genuine pizza making starts with homemade dough, homemade sauce and high-quality, fresh spices, herbs, vegetables, meats and cheeses. Professionals use high gluten flour that is often difficult to find, but slowly becoming more readily available. Still, these bags are usually sold in a minimum of 25 pound bags, often 50 or 100 pounds. To find these bags of specialized pizza flour you have to visit a wholesale baking supplier or internet vendor. The price for a bag of high gluten flour is not particularly unaffordable, but keeping and handling it properly can be a chore. High gluten flour is the flour of choice as it offers the toughness and elasticity not found in regular or bread flour. The taste and texture are also different. Finding high gluten flour is worth the investment and effort if you want to make great pizza at home.

A simple brushing with garlic infused olive oil may be all you desire to top your dough, or you may wish to slow cook a pizza sauce from scratch using fresh tomatoes or canned tomato foodstuffs. Tomato based sauces can be simple preparations or time consuming, slow cooked, elaborate recipes that require a significant amount of time in the kitchen. Beyond traditional Italian-style pizza dough and sauce, the imagination can run wild and ingredients and flavors from international cuisines can be experimented with creating incredible new pizzas.

Whether you will be creating an authentic style deep dish, or something more exotic or contemporary like Country Deep-Dish with Harvest Vegetables, Crispy Oriental with Shiitake Mushroom and Smoked Tofu, Easy Deep Dish with Sausage and Pepperoni, Four-Cheese with Porcini Mushrooms, Roasted Cauliflower and Four-Cheese; or even a dessert pizza such as Orange Chocolate Truffle, the possibilities are endless.