I like to make a simple pizza dough on the weekends. The recipe I use makes enough for 6 9-inch pizzas, enough for two assuming that there's some other food involved. Until recently I've made the dough in my food processor. It comes with a special dough blade (which isn't really a blade at all), but I only have a 7-cup capacity and so its been a messy proposition to stick 4 1/4 cups flour, 1/2 cup corn meal, and 2 cups of water/oil in there. The first time I made the dough it came out perfectly. I had no problem tossing the dough, and the pizzas came out very nicely. That was less true for next few attempts.

Its all different now that I've received my Kitchen-Aid mixer. I stuck the dough-hook on there, and combined the ingredients. After 5 minutes, I had a pile of well kneaded dough. This dough rose a lot better than previous attempts, but I chalk that up to the extremely warm weather we've been having. I usually just stick the dough in my oven (its not on obviously, but the pilot light keeps it warm). This is the first time that the dough collapsed with an audible "whomp" after I punched it down.

I'm thinking tonight might be pizza night, so we'll see how it goes!