Bread Porn and Pizza Love!

We have some very good friends that are living in Victoria, BC. They are serious foodies and one of them started uploading some 'bread porn photos' earlier this summer. My handsome Chef as we all know is quite the talented man, and since leaving the US a few years back, he has not really gotten back into his baking (at home). His oven, that he has lovingly laboured over for the last 5 weeks now, has finally been christened (for want of a better term) and he finally feels like it was 'worth it'!

Last week, we lit a wee fire in the 'cave' daily just to prime it for the weekends "Pizza Party Pizzaz''. Friday evening we had a blazing HOT fire in it which may have been a little too hot, as it produced a few hairline cracks, but nothing to worry about as he was able to 'mud it up'!

Yesterday in a kind of harem scarem way, we managed to pull off an evening of Pizza fun with some of our friends. One of our friends wondered what would happen should the Pizza oven not work?????? Admittedly he did wonder about this confidentially with his wife - she jokingly shared his concerns with us! Others showed up feeling a little shocked that we were not 'ready' as I am usually in complete control and have every little detail accounted for - like tables set, drinks ready etc. however having been 'at school' all week, and a mountain of homework/housework/laundry/shopping to get through, all I had time for was a quick race around the kitchen to help prep the pizza toppings and a jump into the shower at ten till seven, five minutes before the first of our friends arrived!

Thank God for good friends that bring covered dishes and delicious desserts! Needless to say and much to the relief of all of us, the oven performed amazingly and the first bite of Pizza was mouthwateringly delicious!

The plans for friends ovens are being drafted and the 'honey do' lists are growing as I write this little story. Ron will be scraping together all his receipts, drawings and thoughts so he can put together the whole package for anyone that wants to attempt this.

All in all, it took about 5 weeks and cost less than two hundred euros.

That is all the WiseWords I have for today,

WiseMóna