FWIW The day after I posted this question, I actually got to use the back of my cast iron skillet for pizza. The dough was the left over from the day before. Long story short, it produced a crisp, almost cracker like crust. It was not bad but not as good as the stone. This was not a controlled experiment and a number of variables may have skewed the results.

Go to a lumber yard and get unglazed quarry tiles. You can then make your stone any siuze you wish. Linda C

1. If you are using bread flour, you don't need any additional gluten. There's more than enough gluten in bread flour - even all-purpose flour - to make bread without additional gluten. Too much gluten makes the bread tough. 2. I think you've killed the yeast with all the salty ingredients. Salt regulates yeast and too much can kill the yeast. Since you added MORE cheese, and if you added the cheese and pepperoni early in the mixing while the yeast needs to be doing it's thing, it seems like an awful lot of salty ingredients. Including all that pizza sauce as well as the garlic salt which also contribute enormous amounts of salt. Save the cheese and the pepperoni for adding late in the kneading at the add-in beep. 3. You want the dough ball to be formed into a nice soft ball. As the others contributed, it sounds like it needs more flour. With all the liquid and only 3 cups of flour, it sounds like it was soupy instead of a soft, but well-formed, dough ball. Personally, I think this recipe looks like a failure waiting to happen, as it is written. -Grainlady

I should be posting my crappy dinner on the WFD thread, but more important stuff going on here. "The inhaler was useless, the albuterol helped slightly at the time of treatment." Yep, lpink. I've found that with my Dad and my son. Both have nebulizers now (saga with my Dad) With this last go round with my Dad, he was on different courses of antibiotics/prednisone and albuterol breathing treatments over about 8 weeks still (coughing, coughing, coughing). Finally sent to a pulmonologist who added budesonide 2x a day to breathing treatments. Also breathing exercises (pickle, etc.) and changed his antibiotic to azythromycin because he had pneumonia. This is just some add'l info for you -- you know you and hopefully your immune system is going to kick butt here soon:) That's what I'm hoping. I'm sure you're exhausted both physically AND mentally! mamapinky0 -- wow! That's tough! Let's see ... activity and stress in a nine-year old? Um, yep. My goodness. I'm sure you've had your work cut out for you helping this little one recognize symptoms, triggers, etc. plus missing school, activities too, plus just being 9:) DS (25 now) came home from first grade basically coughing every 30 seconds (teacher kept sending him for water) Ended up in ER doing either 3 - 5 back-to-back breathing treatments, kid's eyes were all pupil. Went to Rite-Aid to get albuterol/meds. He was literally running laps up and down the aisles with my daughter trying to watch him. As the clerk told me it would be 30 minutes, I reached across, held her arm as he flew by and said "We don't have 30 minutes." DS always had trouble in fall but has been better in recent years, if that's any consolation. Agreed, 2Many! with your description of good doc! I don't want to get started (I mean look how long I've gone on) but I've said I gird myself for battle. I've actually watched a gastro back up out of the room while we were still asking questions -- sigh. I followed:) Wanted to add how difficult those years of caretaking must have been for you too, on so many levels. I'm glad that you were able to be with her. lpink -- I hope your next post says you're feeling better! CathyinSWPA