Pesto prosciutto and vegegable pizza

A very good pizza last night:

Pizza Dough

1 1/4 cups warm water (105° - 115°)
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp active dry yeast

Set aside until good and frothy - 10-15 mins in 2 cup measuring cup.

In the food processor with dough blade:

2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
3 tsp olive oil

Run food processor at "dough" speed and drizzle the yeast/water mix in a steady stream. With the last of the liquid the dough will pull away from the sides into a sticky ball. Coat the ball lightly with olive oil, place in a bowl covered with plastic wrap and proof for 45 minutes. Punch down and divide into thirds for medium sized pizza (12").

Toppings:

Roll out the dough.

Spread one cup of classic basil pesto on the crust.
Saute red bell pepper slices, sliced mushrooms, minced garlic, thinly sliced red onion in olive oil until soft
Sprinkle a mixture of mozzarella, parmesan, provolone on top of the pesto.
Top with sliced prosciutto generously
Spread vegetable mixture over the whole pizza

Bake on a pizza brick at 450° for 20-25 mins until crust is crisp and brown along the edge and topping are beginning to brown and carmelize

Birds of Winter - Bethany Pond

Overwintering Birds at Bethany Pond

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret*
Pied-billed Grebe
Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Mallard
American Wigeon
Lesser Scaup
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Bufflehead
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher*
Anna's Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Brewer's Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
House Finch
House Sparrow

*Unusual in 15+ years to be here in the winter