There’s something about Saturdays that just call for flour on the counter and a little chaos in the kitchen.

This sourdough pizza has become one of those steady things in our home, the kind you come back to after a long week, when everyone’s hungry, and nobody wants anything complicated. Just good food, made with your hands.

My starter turns four years old this year. Four years of feeding it, forgetting it, bringing it back to life, and figuring it out along the way. This recipe wasn’t handed down or pulled from a book. Trial, error, and a whole lot of “well, let’s see what happens.”

Some nights I go with the long fermentation, an active starter, for about 12 hours, letting it do its thing, slow and steady. Other nights, life’s moving a little faster, and I use my short fermentation version and still end up with something worth gathering around.

That’s the beauty of it.

Thin crust, hand-tossed, a little imperfect around the edges… just like us.

And somewhere between stretching the dough and pulling it out of the oven, the noise of the week quiets down a bit.

Because honestly… who doesn’t love pizza? Especially in a big family.

Pizza night is one of those things we don’t skip. But most store-bought doughs always left me regretting it after, so I learned to make my own. What started with a sourdough starter my sister passed down turned into something bigger. Now, just about anything in our house that calls for dough gets made this way.

It’s simple. It’s flexible. And it feeds a lot of people without a lot of fuss.

I usually start the dough around 1 p.m., and by 6 p.m., we’re pulling pizza out of the oven and everyone’s circling back into the kitchen.

Toppings rotate depending on the mood. BBQ chicken, pepperoni, the occasional pepperoni and pineapple debate, and we’ve still got buffalo chicken on the list to try.

And don’t worry. I’m not going to make you dig through a mile of story just to find the recipe.

I can’t stand that either.

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