We launched the newly reconstituted oven last week, and baby, did it ever perform. After being fired for about 3.5 hours, we scraped out all the coals, swept out the ashes and cooked on the firebrick for HOURS. Have you ever been to one of those upscale eateries that advertise wood-fired pizza? We got it going on in the meadow friends, and it is way better than anything Wolfgang Puck ever imagined. Even though the cement is still curing, the oven creates a beautiful even heat that cooks everything to perfection. There was room for a pizza and two casserole dishes inside. The exterior is cracking like crazy and will have to be sealed with latex paint when it is completely cured, but that’s a small price to pay for the upgrade in our standard of living. I shudder to think of the food crimes waiting to be committed.
I suspect Dogboy will be pumping out pizzas at the camp out, so we’ll need pizza dough & toppings. We are interested in hearing other food suggestions. We could bake breads, beans, casseroles – you could roast a damn turkey in the oven and have room for yams and dressing. The possibilities are endless.
Update on fire season: I don’t have to tell you, it’s a bad one this year. We’ve had periods of thick smoke, but the air has been clear for the last couple of days. I’m not going to veto a campfire, but it will have to be very small and we can’t light it until dark or the fire marshal will have my hide. The oven has a stove pipe with a spark arrestor, so I think it’s OK to fire it early in the morning, as long as we watch it like a hawk.
A little more than two weeks and counting my friends!
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