Pizza Dough Recipe

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  • 1 Teaspoon of Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon of Salt
  • 1 Cup Hot (Tepid) Tap Water (not too hot or it will kill the yeast)
  • 1 Package of Dry Active Yeast

Combine these ingredients in mixing bowl (hot water and dry yeast last) and stir until all the floating yeast is dissolved.  Cover the bowl loosely with plastic wrap and let it set for 10 minutes until the yeast has fully activated (until the water surface is covered with a thin foam of air bubbles.  The sugar may help the yeast to activate.

  • Add 2 Cups of all purpose flour to the bowl and mix with a fork or spoon.  Begin to hand knead the dough mixture.
  • Add 1/4 Cup or less of all purpose flour if this dough mixture is too sticky.  Hand knead this dough mixture until it is smooth and not sticky. Only add a bit of flour to achieve the correct consistency. Knead the dough into a ball.
  • Add about a Tablespoon of Olive Oil to the sides of the bowl and roll the dough ball in the oil to seal its surface.
  • Cover the bowl with a dry dish towel and set in a warm place for the dough to rise for about 10 or 15 minutes or until doubled.
  • Preheat the oven to bake at 400-F degrees.
  • Lightly grease a pizza pan with olive oil
  • Press the raised dough into the pizza pan and spread it evenly across the pan to form the pizza shell.  This is much the same as punching down the raised dough.
  • Cover the shell with the dry towel and let the shell dough rise in the pizza pan for 5 or 10 minutes.
  • Place the pizza pan and shell in the oven for 2 or 3 minutes to precook the dough at 400-F (second to the bottom oven rack about 6 to 8 inches from the bottom of the oven).

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Now the Pizza Sauce and Toppings:

  • Remove the pizza pan and shell from the oven
  • Spread 1/2 jar of your favorite pizza sauce (Prego or Rago, etc., or your own homemade sauce)
  • Spread and top with shredded mozzarella cheese and shredded colby mild cheddar cheese.
  • Add any other toppings that you like:  sliced pepperoni, sliced mushrooms, diced green peppers, etc)
  • Bake on the second to the lowest rack at 400-F for 12 minutes (6 to 8 inches above the bottom of the oven).  Cooking times may vary.  Then check the shell crust.  Cook for an extra 1 or 2 minutes if the under side of the the shell is too soft.  (This cooking time works well with my pizza pan and oven.  Your pan may crisp the shell bottom more quickly).  Be careful not to burn the cheese.

Enjoy!

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How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

  • Navigate to the themes directory of your WordPress website and create a new child theme sub-folder in the path of your themes folder (for example, yourwebsitedomain/wp-content/themes/ChildTwentyFourteen/).  This sub-folder is going to be your new child theme folder for your current themes.  Mane the sub-folder something like “ChildTwentyFourteen” or be a little more creative than me.
  • Search Google for — child theme wordpress codex — and the first link that you should find and follow is to http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
  • On the codex support page which will be displayed from your search, please locate and copy the gray block of code to your clipboard memory.  Make sure you copy every line including the /* — */ comment part.  The code you copy should look like this:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/
Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme
Author: John Doe
Author URI: http://example.com
Template: twentyfourteen
Version: 1.0.0
Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
Text Domain: twenty-fourteen-child
*/

@import url(“../twentyfourteen/style.css”);

/* =Theme customization starts here
————————————————————– */

  •  Open your child theme folder and create a new text file called style.css.  Open the style.css file with your php editor, like notepad++ and paste into that file the code contents that you just copied to your clipboard (that is, paste the above code to the style.css file) and save the file contents of style.css.
  • You can modify each of the lines in the style.css file.  The required lines are the theme name, the Template, and the @import url line
  • Theme customization begins below the dashed line — like css changes.
  • Note: The child theme’s stylesheet is included after the parent theme’s and, consequently, the child theme styles will override those in the parent theme’s stylesheet.
  • Activate your childtheme in your wordpress administrative panels — Appearance — Themes.

You can override main content theme with your child theme content as follows.  For example, to remove or change the contents of the wordpress footer “Proudly Powered by WordPress,” you would first make a copy of footer.php (copied from the main theme folder and pasted into your child theme folder).  Open your child theme copy of the footer.php file using Notepad++ editor and edit the code.  Save the modified footer.php file.  Refresh your wordpress site and check your changes.

How to Enable or Disable the Demo Store Notification in Magento

You can configure Magento eCommerce to display a notice when your store is in demo mode to ensure that your customers know that their orders will not be processed.

Log into the Magento admin panel and hover your mouse pointer over the “System” tab on the horizontal menu. Select “Configuration” from the drop down list. Under “GENERAL” on the vertical menu on the left, select “Design” and then select “HTML Head” on the submenu on the right side. Scroll down and you will see a “Yes/No” toggle option appearing next to “Display demo store notice.”

To Enable/disable the Demo Store Notification make your selection Yes/No from the drop down toggle and click the “Save Config” button at the top right of your display in order to save this configuration change.