Roosevelt Culinary Arts

Pizza (and Calzones)

This is the first project of the first class of Culinary Arts at Roosevelt High School! Where better to start than getting our hands into the dough, and expressing ourselves through personal pizzas?

Our dough recipe comes from this calzone recipe from King Arthur Flour. The proportions are straight forward, and the true secret to good bread dough is really in the feel for proper hydration and kneading until the gluten develops.

We did a slow ferment with the dough overnight in the fridge and then constructed the pizzas the next day. Pepperoni and pineapple were the runaway topping favorites.

Amid stifled giggles, our Spanish speaking chefs reminded us of the Spanish translation for ‘calzon’ – you can give it a google, but it may change the way you think of rolled up pizza 🙂