In our postage stamp backyard, we have a shed. In the shed there is a wood burning, bread oven. The owner before us built it, as he was a baker.
Last night, as it was raining, we lite the bread oven and decided to make pizza in the shed.
I set the table, as French Husband added wood to the fire.
A little pizza dinner, home away from home.
The shed is not very big. The table comfortably sits one, there was five of us. It was our first time baking pizza in the oven. Either it was going to be good, or we would go hungry.
French Husband kept the fire burning. Adding kindling to prepare the bread oven for the pizza. The owner before us left all his vintage, bread oven tools. French Husband used the long-handle tool to stir the fire.
The shed was as warm as toast.
French Husband shows off his tricky, back-handed, wood-burning oven, maneuver trick.
When the oven was hot enough we added the homemade pizzas.
Talk about hot out of the oven.
The "kitchen space" in the shed is…well, the size of a cutting board. Instead of running back and forth, from the house, to the bread oven in the shed. I made the pizza sauce in the house, and then carried it, and the pizza dough to the shed. I rolled out the dough (to the size of our small dinner plates, as space was limited,) in the shed.
I made the pizza sauce by mixing: Four fresh tomatoes, three garlic cloves, two handfuls of roquette, two handfuls of grated mozzarella, a roasted red pepper, a couple of large spoonfuls of marscapone, a healthy pinch of herbs de Provence, a spoonful of mustard, and olive oil… then I mixed the ingredients in a food processor.
I thought you might like to see the ceiling in the shed. In the south of France the roofs are made with reddish-colored, clay tiles. The ones in our shed are exposed, though in the homes they are insulated. You can see in the photo above, that they are placed on top of each other, without any sealing glue or cement. It was raining last night and inside the shed the tiled roof kept us dry.
We ate the pizza, every last bit of it. It was good. I think we will use the wood burning, bread oven more often.
Note: The photos are not the best as I did not use a flash. I gotta figure that flash thing out soon.
Kneading the Pizza dough.
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