Yeah, I made all of those. Pizza is my hobby and it's one of the things that got me into cooking. There are soooo many variables that go into making pizza dough: flour type, the percentage of water in the dough, the amount & type of yeast, whether to add honey or sugar, whether to add oil, how long you let it rise, etc. And then there's the oven you use and the temperature and the time. Basically, you want the hottest oven possible to get the dough to "spring" up and make a light tasting crust.

A hot oven also lets you cook the pizza quickly so the crust won't become dry inside. Adding oil & sugar helps the crust brown when your oven isn't super hot. There's a whole bunch of shit that goes into making a good pie, but really the Italians figured it out a long time ago. A dough made of just flour, water, salt & yeast cooked in a 1,000 degree oven for about 90 seconds. I only achieved this one time when I tricked my oven door into letting me open it when it was operating on the cleaning cycle. Then I dripped some liquid onto the glass of the oven door, shattering it. :-(

This is my one and only neapolitan-style pizza pie. The toppings are reindeer sausage & mushrooms, so that clearly isn't traditional.



I made a calzone at the same time. In a super hot oven, a real Italian calzone will puff up like a football from the heat.



And since I'm posting my pizza pics, here was a really good shrimp pie. Again, I mixed seafood with cheese.