As a New Jersey native I'm always horrified when someone offers me pizza from out of state. Will it be the mutant pizza from Pizza Hut/Dominoes/Papa John's or some froo-froo California pizza made out of tofu and free range avocado cooked in a solar-powered oven? Pizza is supposed to be a thin, crispy crust and it really only needs tomato sauce and cheese. You know that New York-style pizza one of the chains had for a while? Think the exact opposite of what that was.
It's been a while, but I apparently deemed this recipe as acceptable pizza dough:
2-1/4 tsp yeast
1/4 tsp sugar
3/4 cup hot water
1-3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat KK to 500 degrees
Dissolve yeast and sugar in hot water, allow to rest 8 minutes
in a separate bowl mix flours and salt
Pour yeast mixture over flour mixture and mix well
Knead for two minutes
Roll out thinly (I separate into halves for two smaller pizzas)
Add sauce, cheese and toppings
Bake 8-12 minutes
If you must use toppings, try finding a hot salami instead of pepperoni (oh boy and I concerned about using the term "hot salami" with this group...), it adds a nice flavor not common in most pizza places. For those really interested in experimenting, the pizza in Switzerland is actually very well done even though it comes with odd toppings. Here is a German menu, one of the surprisingly tasty options is onions and tunafish (like from a can, not the stuff the bait store - er, sushi place - sells). If you're ever in Bern I can get you a nice list of places to eat