Pizza Dough

What I love about this dough is you don't think about it. Most of the time when I make pizza dough at home is overwhelms the pizza. This dough is perfect. You don't pay too much attention to it. It is a perfect compliment to the Best Ever! Pizza Sauce :)

Ingredients:
1 cup warm water (110F)
1 (1/4 ounce) envelope active dry yeast/(I used 2 1/4 tsp of bread machine yeast)
1 teaspoon sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour, divided
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon salt

Directions:
- In the bowl of your heavy-duty mixer (like a Kitchen Aid), stir together the water, yeast and sugar; let sit until the mixture is foamy, which takes about 5 minutes.
- Add 1 1/2 cups of the flour, the oil and salt into the yeast mixture and, using the paddle attachment
- When smooth Switch to the dough hook.
- With the machine running at low, add remaining flour, 1/4 cup at a time; make sure each addition of flour is incorporated before adding the next.
- Once all the flour has been added, turn up the speed and let the machine knead the dough for about 3 minutes; it should be very smooth and perhaps a bit tacky. For me not all the flour took to the ball so I drizzled in a couple tablespoons of water and kneaded a little by hand.
- Grease a large mixing bowl with a little olive oil; form dough into a ball, and place into oiled bowl, turning dough over to make sure all sides are oiled.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap or cover with towel and place in a warm, draft-free area to rise; the dough should nearly double in size, which will take about 60 to 90 minutes.
- When dough is ready, lightly punch it down and knead it a bit, still right in the bowl. Lightly flour your work surface and place dough ball on it; let it rest for 10 minutes.
- This makes one large pizza
- To stretch dough I used a rolling pin. Then I tossed it a little bit. Use your knuckles and not your finger tips or it will tear.
- I use a pizza stone and put the stone in the oven while it is preheating. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 475F.

Recipe adapted from here