Quick and Easy Pizza Dough

This wonderful "San Francisco in June" we've been experiencing has its advantages. Among them is having the ability to fire up an oven and bake a pizza without turning the kitchen into a hot and unbearable pit of Hell. We also like making flatbreads on the grill and, rather than spend a small fortune on ready made pizza dough, we like to make our own and don't give a damn about having the dough formed in a perfect circle, so much as it's crispy when the baking's complete.

This recipe for pizza dough is quick and easy. It also yields enough dough to make four 12-inch pizzas.

Pizza Dough

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 Tablespoon whole wheat flour
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup room temperature water
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1-1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon instant yeast

Mix the olive oil and water together. In a mixer, combine the other ingredients. Slowly add the water-and-oil mixture until a ball of dough forms that can easily run down the wall of the mixing bowl. If a ball has not formed, add 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour until you get the right result.

Transfer the dough to a well-oiled container, pressing it flat along the bottom. Cover top of container with a towel and allow to rise for 2 hours. To form a flatbread/pizza, dust a small portion of the dough with flour and roll out to the desired size.