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Since the day I left Poland I miss good breads. Though, I don’t miss it that much to be willing to pay $5 or more for a loaf. No ma’am. More likely I’m willing to learn to make my own. And I’ve tried… .

As Bob Ross in his TV show “The joy of Painting” would say: “We don’t have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.” I go with his “ideology” in my baking journey. It really helped me in my countless tries to bake a bread.  Edible one.

It happened only once before.

It was Irish Soda Bread and it was edible because I was so hungry for that bread that I would call “yummy” whatever I’d have baked that day.

Anyway, my happy accident begins a few days ago.  That day we had pizza for dinner. I used only half of the dough for one very thin pizza (that’s how my husband likes it) and one very thick and fluffy (that’s how I like it). While eating my pizza I’ve noticed the crust is very bread-like. I got a little bit excited about that but having my experience in baking breads I knew I shouldn’t get too much excited 😉 So I didn’t.

I stored the rest of my pizza dough for two days in the fridge. After that I took it out and using only half of the dough I shaped it in a round ball and let it rise for a few hours until doubled in size. From the rest of that dough I made pizza (we like pizza, A LOT!)

Isn’t it a beauty!?

This is my recipe for the dough:
1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp salt*

1 pkg yeast

2 cups lukewarm water

1/4 cup vegetable oil

3 cups all purpose flour**

1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour**

*If you make it just for pizza skip the salt.

** plus extra flour (which ever you prefer) if the dough is still too sticky

How to make it:

dissolve sugar and yeast in large bowl; let stand until bubbly

add oil

stir in the flour and knead until smooth

turn into greased bowl and let rise covered in a warm place until doubled

cut into 4 or 2 pieces (it depends on how big bread loafs you want)

knead again

shaped in long or round shapes

put it on greased baking pan

let rise until doubled*

bake in 400 F for 30 minutes or until the skin is golden brown.

*if you making pizza you don’t have to make that dough to rise twice. one time is totally enough.

Sometimes when I make pizza I add fresh herbs and different spices to the dough. What to add is really up to personal likes and dislikes. Feel free to experiment  🙂

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