Stromboli

Bring on the first football game of the year!! Once a week during football season- I planned on a special snack... a dip, a special dinner-- SOMETHING to look forward to while we watched the game.

My MIL makes 2 kinds of stromboli... one which is a mozzarella & pepperoni and the other is a spinach and feta. My husband hates feta, so I make the mozzarella & pepperoni one.

I make my favorite pizza dough (ahem, nods to the bread machine)...

1 1/3C- Hot water
1tea- Sugar
2tea- Salt
2T- Olive Oil
3 1/4C- Bread Flour
3/4C- Whole Wheat Flour
2 1/4tea- yeast

This makes 2# pizza dough.

I cut it in half and use my cutting board as a guide. I stretch and roll out the pizza dough into the size of a square. I lay out my sliced mozzarella (I use 1/2 pound in each stromboli log) and I get about a 1# to 1 1/2# of pepperoni. I prefer boar's head pepperoni. I split what I need for both and evenly lay out mozzarella and then pepperoni.
I roll the dough- mozzarella/pepperoni up into a log... much like you would for a jelly roll cake. I make a couple of slits on the top (not too deep, but if you don't it'll burst out). Then I just bake it off until the crust is golden brown... I would check after 15 minutes to gauge how much longer it needs to stay in.