The Wood-Fired Blog
Fire Roasted Eggplant Dip
Oct 30, 2019Autumn is my favorite season—cooler temperatures, longer nights and best of all: harvest! Eggplant is among the best of the bounty. Delicious dips such as baba ghanouj (also called baba ghanoush) and muttabal are mainly roasted eggplant, with most recipes placing the fruit directly on a gas burner and roasting until the skin cracks. What better candidate for the wood fired oven? I picked up four eggplants to roast in... Read More
Crab and Artichoke Savory Bread Pudding
Jun 20, 2016Isn’t it frustrating to let the oven’s residual heat go to waste? Here’s a recipe that gives you the opportunity to make a delicious brunch dish for the next day, after you’ve cooked up a feast the night before. I had a pizza festa on a recent Saturday night for some friends who were staying with us for the weekend. I made a dozen assorted pies, but a few of... Read More
Roasted Vegetable Antipasti
Apr 11, 2016Quick and easy roasted vegetables as appetizers or pizza toppings when you’re cooking in a wood fired pizza oven. You can even save any leftovers and make a frittata the next morning! Thanks to Bill Bell of Mercer Island, WA for submitting this recipe! Quick and easy roasted vegetables as appetizers or pizza toppings. Read More
A Few of My Pizza Oven Favorites
Oct 26, 2015A little more than a year has taught me a few things about pizza out of a Forno Bravo pizza oven. To name just a few: the woods and the flavor of smoke, the fire and how to trust in the dome-licking flames, the illusion of controlling the dough, yeast, humidity and time, and of course the toppings–spicy, sweet, tart, bold, creamy, sharp and all delicious. The most important lesson... Read More
Zucchini and Roasted Red Pepper Pizza With White Wine Cream Sauce
Jul 31, 2012First off, I need to give credit where it’s due: The idea for this pizza is lifted from Pizza Orgasmica in San Francisco. When my wife and I lived in the Bay Area, the Ecstasy, as it’s called on their menu, was our favorite pie of theirs, and it led me to mess around with creating a white wine cream sauce recipe so I could mimic it at home. I... Read More
Potato, Roasted Radicchio and Thyme Pizza With White Wine Cream Sauce
Jul 23, 2012Here is the second installment in what I have taken to calling My Own Personal Pizza Month here at the Forno Bravo online cookbook. For brevity’s sake, I’m only going to talk pizza construction in this article. Read More
