The Wood-Fired Blog
Pizza Sauce
Dec 30, 2011You can use canned San Marzano tomatoes (Pomodori Pellati) to create a wonderful, and simple pizza tomato base. Use a potato masher to get a good sauce consistency. Don’t use a food processor or hand mixer, as those will break the seeds and give your sauce a bitter flavor. If you are using a brick oven, you should not cook the sauce. The hot oven will cook the sauce perfectly.... Read More
Kaiser Rolls
Dec 30, 2011So-called Kaisers are everywhere these days, from supermarket bins to small bakeries. Unfortunately, most are made with generic recipes, bleached flour and too many are extruded by machine before being baked on gas decks. The look might be right, but the actual bread is flavorless. They bear little resemblance to the chewy delights of childhood memory. The rolls from this wood fired oven bread recipe bring back that memory, because... Read More
Wood-Oven Goat Cheese Sandwich With Shallot Relish and Kale
Dec 30, 2011Who doesn’t love a good grilled cheese? That’s a rhetorical question, since everyone loves a good grilled cheese (except you poor souls out there who are unfortunate enough to be lactose intolerant). This is a twist on the classic I came up with as a vegetarian option for a party, and I was surprised to discover it actually ended up outpacing all the meat options in terms of popularity with... Read More
Roast Chicken with Lemon
Dec 30, 2011You have a lot of flexibility when doing a simple roast chicken. If your oven is hotter than 550ºF, you can wrap the chicken in foil to keep it from burning, and remove the foil a few minutes before the chicken is done for browning. If your oven is less than 400ºF, you can leave it in the oven longer, 90 minutes or more. If your oven warm, but too... Read More
Vertical Chicken (also known as Beer Can Chicken)
Dec 29, 2011Vertical chicken, or beer can chicken is perfect in a brick oven. The surrounding, moist heat cooks the chicken all around, while the stand and steaming can provide more flavor and moist steam. The chicken stand holds a can of beer (or wine, or anything you want to use for flavor) and the chicken. You set the stand directly on the cooking floor, so that juices that hit the floor... Read More
