Pizza Margherita with Cherry Tomatoes

We still eat pizza very often in my household. Pictured above is a simple, yet delicious Pizza Margherita. I almost forgot to incorporate the cherry tomatoes, so I just sprinkled them on top after baking the pizza.

Here's the same pizza dough recipe that I posted in April, it's still my favorite. I like the author's tomato sauce too, but to make things even simpler, I often just:

• saute minced fresh garlic in olive oil
• add a can of diced tomatoes
• simmer for a few minutes
• season with salt and pepper
• add fresh torn basil

With a sauce that simple, there's no excuse not to make your own.

If you want to make pizza at home, I suggest purchasing:

• a pizza peel
• a pizza stone
• corn meal to sprinkle on the peel and stone to prevent the dough from sticking

Once you make the dough, you can:

• use it right away to form into a pizza crust
• form it into a ball and store it in the fridge or freezer
• form it into a pizza crust and freeze it uncooked
• form it into a pizza crust, parbake it, and then freeze it

I like this blogger's technique for parbaking pizza crusts.