The pizza oven has been very patient. I’ve been too busy to play with it. So it sat and dried.
It finally enjoyed its first fire yesterday. No pizza yet though. The chef has to experiment a bit first.
The pizza oven has been very patient. I’ve been too busy to play with it. So it sat and dried.
It finally enjoyed its first fire yesterday. No pizza yet though. The chef has to experiment a bit first.
Home sweet home. Back to work work and deferred projects.
I am getting ready to build an outdoor clay earth oven to bake pizza and bread. Tim collected clay, I collected river rocks and we both contributed empty wine bottles – that was hard work.
I am building a base and will use the wine bottles as part of an insulating layer. The ideas and plans are from a book, Earth Ovens by Kiko Denzer.
Today I evened out the holes I dug, cut the fence posts, leveled them, and ripped, cut, and attached joists. Gotta love a table saw.
Opps don’t look too closely. I temporarily removed a safety dohiggy to cut the posts. I think I have enough rocks but may need a few more wine bottles. Better get to work.
It’s a little wonky but level in all directions.
Yesterday I made a simple card weaving loom with the table saw. I intend to try it out at a workshop in Vermont this weekend.
And earlier this month, I smoked a beef brisket on my Weber grill as described on the Cooks Illustrated website. I soaked it in brine, rubbed it with salt and pepper and slow cooked it on the grill for 5 hours. It was amazing. I’ve tried a couple of pizzas on the grill mostly to practice sliding it off the wooden peel for the new oven.
This week my farm share included a roast beef, pork roast and spare ribs. Fire up the grill!
Days are short. The sun set at 4:16 today. Somehow my mind turns to gardening. Not in a big way, mind you.
The author of Year Round Indoor Gardening discussed his book on NPR a few weeks ago. What a concept! Fresh greens all year. Shoots grown in soil indoors.
After sprinkling a tablespoon of seeds on soil, The first 4 days you basically do nothing while the seedlings develop roots.
Then you move them to a window that merely sees daylight and you end up with a salad a week from when you started.
Here’s my sunflower, buckwheat, peas, and radish salad. And that’s just the half of it.