The great thing about getting your guests involved with the food at a party is that it’s such fun everyone having a go, and learning about food, and there is no better food for this than pizza. Everyone can make up their own bases, kids love this, and with a selection of traditional and unusual [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pizza’
28 Mar
A nice bit of pizza, plain and simple
I fired up the oven again this afternoon to drive away the moisture built up over the winter and get it ready for a full summer of pizza and wood fired cooking, I also had a play with a couple of pizza recipe ideas, more of which will follow in a later post. But here’s [...]
27 Aug
Friday night Pizza washout
Having a lovely new pizza oven has it’s ups, and tonight I found out one of the downs, what happens when you arrange to cook pizza for guests and it rains! Horror! I fired the oven up,and got a lovely temperature going, the base hitting 400deg C and waited for guests to arrive. At about [...]
2 Jul
A beautiful day to cook
Had friends over for lunch so fired the wood fired oven up early to get it good and hot, i had a little dough left from bread making, so knocked up a quick pizza for brunch….chefs perks! It was delicious best pizza, yet, I feel i’m getting the hang of building a good fire and [...]
16 Jun
Pizza!
I have now finished my oven and painted it, all looking good, fired up for the first pizza this afternoon, it wasn’t white hot but did a pizza in about 3 mins, I had the fire going for 2 1/2 hours, and did 5 pizzas on it, the first couple had a disaster with them sticking [...]
14 Jun
First meal cooked in the oven
I fired her up again tonight, a little bit more, and thought i’d cook a meal, I got some nice mackerel and samphire and cooked the fish on my tuscan grill over some fennel shoots from my herb bed, and we enjoyed it with a nice zingy salad from the garden. I put the first scratch [...]
14 Jun
First firing
I’m really happy today, I had a small curing fire this morning and went out later this afternoon and was amazed by how warm it all still was, hopefully a good sign, the chimney seems to draw well so happy with that too, and I got the first layer of render on, here’s a couple [...]
11 Jun
Day 4
Day 4 has been wicked, I finished off the chimney, and then started the vermicrete, this was easy to mix, but difficult to get stick, so I used some chicken wire mesh to lock it in and slapped it on with my hands, I reckon I got a generous 4-5″ on especially over the top, it’s all [...]
10 Jun
Day 2 & 3
I got loads done yesterday, but struggled today as had torrential rain most of the day, have got the barrel cut and in place now and have covered with the first heat retaining layer of concrete about 3″ so far, I have put up the brick arch, but really struggled with it, hope it holds [...]
8 Jun
Woodfired Oven Build Day 1
Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:37 am Well I have made a start, all the goodies were delivered this morning. So I dug a trench for the foundation blocks and checked all was level, and built up 2 layers of block work, not the best of jobs but it’ll all be rendered to match the bbq, [...]
