Pizza Dough

Ingredients:

1 cup flat beer
2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
2 tablespoons sugar or honey
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
seasonings of choice i.e. rosemary, basil, oregano, garlic optional

Directions:

1) Place all ingredients in bread machine starting with dry ingredients.  Select dough setting and press start.
2) Remove dough from bread machine when cycle is complete.  Roll or press dough to cover bottom of pizza pan, brush with olive oil and let stand fifteen minutes.
3) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Bake dough for 10 minutes.  Remove and spread sauce and toppings of choice on dough.  Bake until crust is light brown and crispy, approximately 20 minutes.

Parley

I recently received as a gift a lovely bread machine that I'm much enamored with.  To date I've made three loaves of bread and two batches of pizza dough in the span of about a week, both of which are delicious!  Since pizza is so customizable, as well as being one of my favorite foods, I figured I'd share the dough recipe - it is extremely easy and tasty!  I'm hoping someone can perhaps modify it so that a bread machine is not required thereby making this recipe accessible to everyone.  One thing I'd like to add - I didn't have the patience to let the beer go "flat" so I just poured it into the measuring cup, let it sit about ten minutes (or however long it took me to finish the rest of the beer in the bottle) and proceeded with the recipe which worked just fine.  For the pizza pictured above I made my own sauce out of tomato paste and spices, used part-skim mozzarella (trying to be a little healthy), and topped it with carmalized onions, broccoli, roasted peppers, and some grilled asparagus from the previous nights BBQ to rave review from my parents!