We’ve started smoking

Bertha’s been feeling a little left out since the Berthamobile came on the scene, so to make up for the lack of action we thought we’d experiment with some hot smoking. We had an event down in Dorset over the weekend and to link in with the local seafood festival we...

How the leopard got his spots

…not from an Ethiopian as in Kipling’s version, or in the usual fashion for Neapolitan pizzas but get them he did and we were pretty proud of last night’s pizzas.   Yesterday was another day of tests, tweaking and perfecting. We were using Caputo...

D-Day

Saturday was D-Day, Dough-Day to be clear, we didn’t venture to Normandy. The aim was simple, to try a variety of dough recipes with a view to finding our favourite. We were sticking to classic Neapolitan pizzas which happen to be both our personal favourites...

Outdoor food tastes better

My girlfriend and I are spending Christmas apart this year which seemed like a perfect excuse to hold our own mini Christmas beforehand. We weren’t tempted by the traditional affair, much as we’re both a fan of turkey, but liked the idea of an Aussie style...

Introductions – Part 1

Everyone meet Bertha, Bertha meet everyone. Here she is, our outdoor oven, handmade in the UK from Sheffield Steel and a bit of a looker even if we do say so ourselves. I was originally planning to build myself an outdoor oven, I’d even downloaded plans from the...