Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Pizza and Bread outdoor Earth Oven!!!

so...what do artistic types do in their supposed FREE time?  What???  As if creativity were like a faucet one could just turn off or on?


So...I go over to Tim and Connie's one day...and they had just gone to some local area where clay was literally in the ground and brought a bunch home.  I hear the news they are building an outdoor earth oven...planning to make pizzas and breads.


Okay...I'm not thrown for a curve, because well...isn't this what one comes to expect hanging around artsy friends???  As an artist/musician type myself, I totally connect...so instead I'm like..."really?  Wow...!!!  Cool!!!  So...how will this work???"


So...if you follow our blog of the arts that happen here in the north woods of Wisconsin, I wonder how many have one day just decided to get a bunch of clay and build an outdoor oven?  One thing is sure...one connects with a long history of many indigenous cultures doing something like this!!!




Sand is used to help create the shape...and clay is packed over it...later the sand all removed...which I believe Connie is seen working on here, leavng a nice clay shell.


A good fire going inside!!!



Yummm yum...pizza sitting in the hot hot coals...on tiles



 Dale delightfully takes on the task of cutting the pizza...!!!  Success!

A couple more pics added here...the bread is phenomenal, and Tim is on to a great flour/recipe...first getting the fire good and hot, about an hour Tim says, roughly 450-500 degrees...

The bread has wonderful texture, and is amazingly good, just about better than any I can recollect...and to think, from a mound of clay!!!




Gettin' er stoked up!!!




Look at that!!!!




Check out that texture and crust...and believe me, this is so so good!!!

1 comment:

  1. Now that is what i call Artisan Bread, Love the creation of the oven. There are so many things that don't cost a cent to have fun with life.
    Thanks for sharing this moment with us.

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