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White Pizza with Lemon Arugula and Prosciutto

Now I know what you're thinking, why go to the trouble of making pizza when its just so darn easy to pick up the phone and have a perfectly good one delivered?  I'll tell you why.  Once you discover the fun and the flavor of making your own homemade pizza, you'll never want to order a delivery pizza again.  The drawback of making your own is of  course the time factor.  But if you do it in steps, then it is possible to make your own faster than it would be to call in your order and have it delivered.  I do it like this:  on a weekend or a day when I am lucky enough to have time sans crawling toddler at my feet, then I make the pizza dough.  Making pizza dough is pretty fast and simple.  You take a handful of ingredients, mix it up and then let it sit in a bowl for an hour.  After it rises, you have not one, but two large (14 inch) pizza crusts.  That means if you freeze the other crust, all you have to do is pop the dough out of the freezer in the morning, pull it