I’ve wanted one of these outside pizza ovens for years, but living in rentals it’s been impossible. And even now that we’re in our own place, it’s too damn small to fit one in the backyard. When we get ‘the farm’ we’ll build one, but for now I’ll just use Andy’s. He’s a mate that’s a bricky, and although he’d never made one before he read a few ‘how to’ books and whipped one up, and it’s a wee ripper! His oven cooks a pizza beautifully! I made a batch of pizza base using 00 flour, I then smoked a trout and played around with a few variations. My favorite being smoked trout, Warrnambool Buffalo Mozzarella, Meredith Goats Cheese, Anchovies, pickled jalapeno, home pickled olives, home made passata (reduced to a paste), home grown rocket and thyme, drizzled with home made olive oil. Did I mention home made?
I rolled out many a pizza, and the mouths kept chomping. The kids ate three pizzas between the two of them! Okay so they were small pizzas, but seriously they were little motor mouths!
After a few beers/wine Andy and I discussed the concept of an underground guerilla pizza night, where punters can come with eskies and picnic rugs, order off the menu of 3 pizzas and as payment, make a ‘donation’ to the Andy veg garden development fund. We just have to convince his boss that it’s a good idea!
While we wait for approval, we’ll just cook more pizza. mmmmmmm pizza
PS. This pizza day is one of a 5 part series of me cooking stuff that I’ve been working on for ABC online Ballarat. Hopefully it will be live in a week or two. No laughing at my presenting style please!
AZWanderings said:
Holy smokes Rohan. My mouth is literally watering as I type this. Those are some amazing looking pizzas. Now, how to make a pizza oven in my back yard….
WholeLarderLove said:
They tasted amazing Beno! Best pizza in ages…..the base was a real winner, and that smokey taste….yum! Smoked trout is a real charmer on top of a pizza
Lynne said:
Gotta get one of those—both the oven and the pizza looking amazingly mouth watering ;-)
WholeLarderLove said:
Correct! We have decided to replace the chiminea with a pizza oven…..we’ll probably start laying bricks very soon!!
Selby said:
Looks delish:) pizza supper club sounds fantastic!
Phill said:
send out invites with time to spare – I’d love to come over.
Phill
WholeLarderLove said:
Fo shizzle!!
lovedbyfrances said:
I want one NOW. One being pizza oven AND the cheesy pizza!
WholeLarderLove said:
Well guess what…..we’re going to make one in our yard!!!
Conor Bofin said:
I didn’t understand why my friend Liam invested a huge amount of money, time and energy building one of these at his holiday home in France. That is, until we spent a few days down there and I got to prepare my own pizzas and cook them in the oven. Liam uses vine roots and cuttings with French oak to heat the oven. I love using the peel to turn the pizza and we ate them standing beside the oven, drinking local wine and talking crap. Wonderful times.
WholeLarderLove said:
Conor, thats pretty well much what we did on the weekend! We ate our pizza standing up, with a drink close by! Andy tells me that the main reason he made it was for the social element!!
renee@sweetsugarbean said:
I need a friend with a kick ass pizza oven too!
Jason said:
Gorilla pizza? Like with bananas and stuff? No, sir! Count me out!
Joakim said:
Gaah! I have that exact oven planned as well. Given Swedens climate it’ll probably endup inside the kitchen. (The kitchen in the house i end up after my escape that is). A friend of a friend recently opened a kickass frestaurant here in stockholm and their kitchen consists of a couple of gas-flames, a deep fryer and a big wood fired oven. I ate a murderous 8-hour porkcheek with homemade gnocchis last time we visited. When we left they were frying veggies for next days ratatouille beside the flames. Some pics here: http://www.chezbetty.se Thats where we will eat on our way up to the mountains when you come visit next autumn.
Cheers!
WholeLarderLove said:
Inside pizza oven totally works…I’ve seen them up at a place in the high country (our Alpine snow region…..yes we have snow in Australia)
I’m drooling thinking about that pork cheek! And hunting in Autumn in Sweeden!
Emily @ the beetle shack said:
Hey man,
we’re building one of these at the moment- how did this one go without a chimney? We’re trying to decide if we should put one in or not.
xo em