It Worked!

Having mostly followed Julia Child's directions for her pizza crust, I blithely ignored everything she had to say about cooking it. Not even for pizza am I turning the oven on when it's 90-some-odd degrees out.

I also felt free to disregard the "tossing" of the crust part--which she says takes very little practice. Reading between the lines, I'm still thinking that means one or two pizza crusts were pried off the ceiling or scooped up off the floor, and when we're hungry and dinner is already 3 hours late is not the time for acrobatics in the kitchen. Besides, Andy was watching & would have known if I scooped the crust up off the floor and served it anyway.

So, I rolled it out and grilled it slightly before adding toppings
Two things here worth mentioning:
1. I have never yet managed to roll anything into a circle, but I'm getting better at squares and thought I should go with my strengths
2. I realize pre-"baking" isn't a Julia step either, but I haven't actually grilled a pizza before (only grilled crusts I had pre-baked in the oven), so if the dough was going to ooze through the grill and end up flambeing on the burners, I didn't want it to take the toppings with it.

A little homemade sauce, "legal" chicken sausage, and a bit of cheese later and voila!
A really quite good pizza. (And for anyone wishing to grill their own pizza, the Rotisserie burner DOES help heat the grille a bit quicker, but will probably also burn one edge of your pizza. Just an FYI)

And yesterday's endeavor:
Six pints of salsa! And if you can believe it, since last fall I had actually forgotten how long it takes to make & can salsa. Guess the mystery of how women can go through childbirth more than once has been solved......