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Blog archives: June 2019

Smoked Mackerel Paté

June 27, 2019, 12:15 am

Smoked mackerel paté from the woodfired oven is a fabulous recipe to have up your sleeve - straightforward to make and utterly delicious. If you have a glut of fresh mackerel, if you or a friend have been fishing, this is a great way of using them up. We used…Read more »

Where's my heat coming from?

June 20, 2019, 12:15 am

Where's my heat coming from? You might think the answer to this is obvious - the fire doh! But not so fast - sometimes it's the fire, sometimes the embers, sometimes the refractory material - and all those different sources mean you can do different kinds of cooking with them.…Read more »

Woodfired Sticky Chicken with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

June 10, 2019, 10:57 am

Woodfired Sticky Chicken with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce - finger food at its best! Slow-cooked chicken wings, browned up at the end and then plunged into a sweet/sharp/zingy/hot dipping sauce. Stand aside and let us through! Check it on our youtube channel here and the recipe is below. [caption id="attachment_5685" align="aligncenter"…Read more »

Cooking a Pizza on the Morso Forno

June 6, 2019, 12:15 am

Cooking a Pizza on the Morso Forno can be a bit frustrating. We've found, like many of you from what you tell us, after cooking a couple of pizzas on the base of the floor, the floor loses heat and then you have to reheat it. Not a slick operation…Read more »

Having your cake and eating it!

June 4, 2019, 6:45 pm

One of the great joys for us of cooking and the food industry in general is there’s always such a lot to learn. An even greater pleasure is when we’re being taught something new by someone we used to teach! When we moved down here a million years ago to…Read more »