Holzofen-Pizza

With Holzofen-Pizza you can get any woman in Switzerland and Germany. And who ever had a real Holzofen-Pizza once will probably never forget the experience and the very distincitve taste of it. Holzofen means an oven that's heated with wood. All those frozen pizza you can buy in your grocery-shop in german-speaking countries are Holzofen-Pizza, it's like 'handmade'.

In this case the Holzofen actually is the only heating in my parent's house, and when the oven is hot enough you can make pizza or bread in it. And there's a lot of space in the oven. I think when we were kids we once had 15 pizzas in the oven.

So today we had a family-gathering. Normaly thes events include my parents, my younger brother and me. But this time even my youngest brother and my sister along with her partner and her dog joined us. Mom made the dow in the afternoon while dad made the fire in the oven, and in the evening we all made our own pizza. Have fun with the photos...

En Guete!

Thoughts about cooking

Some say, 2 hours of cooking is too long when the meal’s eaten in only 15 minutes. I have a different opinion on that one. It really depends on the occasion, on the guests you have and on what you want to achieve.

Yes, there are times when I just put some frozen pre-prep-meal in the microwave oven. But this just happens when I had a long day and don’t want to cook and don’t want to eat bread, cheese and meat. Mostly when I cook for myself I do some Asian food in the wok or just the ordinary pasta with pre-prep gravy. Sometimes I put a steak in the oven together with rosemary and garlic. But these are rather rare exceptions. Since I’m living alone with my brother there’s not many opportunities for big cooking. Whom should I impress? Eating is basically providing the body with food. But still it’s very interesting what you can do with this oldest need of life in general.

So I prepared the Lemon Chicken with self-made roquette-pesto, and it did take 2 hours. But since it was a test for my mom’s birthday it really was worth it. I made some minor mistakes and miscounted the amounts of some ingredients, but in the end I took a very tasty meal out of the oven and was really happy with it.