Wood-Fired Cooking
Wood Fired Community Cookbook Recipe Contest
Jun 07, 2016Do you have a wood fired recipe that gets rave reviews from family and friends? Now is your opportunity to not only share it with other wood fired chefs and enthusiasts, but get rewarded, too! Starting June 1 through July 30, 2016 we are holding a Summer Wood Fired Recipe Contest and the winner will receive a $75.00 shopping spree in the Forno Bravo Store. Submit your recipes through the... Read More
Rolling Out the Dough
Mar 21, 2016I spent longer than I’d like to admit thinking of halfway decent puns that involve the word “dough.” I’m not sure why, this post is a pretty straightforward recollection of how I found at the dough I use today. Well, to be honest, getting the dough wasn’t all too straightforward. I had to go through half a dozen contacts, two different companies (one twice), and some less-than ideal recipes. I... Read More
Bad Weather and Pizza Ovens
Feb 04, 2016As a resident of California for the past 17 years, I believe that I can officially claim the title of spoiled summer child. As much as I would like to deny it, I simply can’t take the cold. A brisk breeze sends me running in search of a coat (much to my Virginian father’s amusement), and I adamantly believe that the best way to experience a snowstorm is inside one’s... Read More
A Girl and Her Dragon Summer Party
Dec 14, 2015Last I wrote, we’d just wrapped up my first event, the Nueva School Quest night. Lots of people, lots of pizza, lots of fun (I know, I know, a bit clichéd, but very true!). Little did I know that that night was nothing in comparison to my next function: the Foundation Capital Summer party! Foundation Capital is the venture capital firm where my dad (Paul Holland) works. They do as... Read More
A Girl and Her Dragon – Quest Night
Nov 04, 2015It was a few months after the conference that I found myself contentedly looking over my progress. The applications were submitted, the oven was built and beautiful, so is it really any surprise that I overlooked one eensy weensy detail? Because of a series of comical/endlessly frustrating/I-am-beginning-to-understand-the-attraction-of- anarchy regulatory delays, I hadn’t actually made any pizza (without professional supervision) yet. Easy thing to overlook, right? RIGHT? And my first event was rapidly approaching. Of course I... Read More
The Fire Within Mobile Pizza Conference – Day 3
Oct 28, 2015The Fire Within mobile pizza Conference, attended by guest blogger, Kylie before the dragon wagon was born. Day 3 of 3 of the pizza workshop. Another breakfast of cinnamon buns and my new favorite fruit: pineapple before a short lecture on branding and the event we’ve all been waiting for: trust falls. No, seriously, it’s pizza time! We get a quick lesson from some Brava employees, who make it look... Read More
Wood Fired Oven Pot Holder
Oct 23, 2015Many wood fired oven enthusiasts make more than pizza in their ovens and a favorite cooking accessory is a cast iron skillet. Peter Reinhart, Todd Fisher and Brigit Binns all used Lodge cast iron skillets in their cooking demonstrations at the Forno Bravo Expo this year. Peter cooked a melody of seafood in the skillet first, then cooked the pizza dough and added the seafood as topping to the pizza.... Read More
The Fire Within Mobile Pizza Conference – Day 2
Oct 20, 2015The Fire Within mobile pizza Conference, attended by guest blogger, Kylie before the dragon wagon was born. Day 2 of 3 of the pizza workshop. I will not lie and tell you that I didn’t wake up to the thrice darned alarm, playing soft, happy and entirely situation appropriate music, and regret staying up past 11 the night before. The 7:20 am wake up time hurts to remember (all you... Read More
Thanks to Feedback from Dealers / Customers on our prints
Feb 20, 2015To the Forno Bravo faithful, we appreciate the feedback and suggestions regarding our print layouts for our wood fired oven kits. Many of our technical support calls over the years have been because our prints were more about oven use, then install. That is changing! We are in the process of updating all our drawings to provide Architectural views for Designers / Installers as well as key component parts. We... Read More
