Pizza Journey

Welcome to Pizza Journey!

A website celebrating our adventures, as we traipse into the world of Wood Fired Oven cookery. The site will follow the journey of building the oven, sourcing wood, ingredients and developing recipes.

Scamorza Cheese Festivus

On a recent firewood collecting weekend, the old man came along to get a load of redgum to last to...

Team Swine produce gets a test run

It was a cold and blustery weekend so what better time to fire up the oven, get the lads from...

Dirty Steaks

A while ago I read a great article on something called ‘Dirty Steaks’. It refers to cooking meat directly on...

Bahn Mi (Barn Me) Pizza. A Revelation.

During a conversation with a chef friend I came up with a zany idea for a new Pizza flavour, the...

At 7.50am I carted a tonne of bricks to Welland Waste Depot to say goodbye to the old bbq. An exchange of $48 to the dump man saw me first in line to the rubble pit to discard the old red bricks and dream of exciting things to come. Note to self, next time I decide to demolish something I will get a mini skip delivered directly to the house. Unloading and locking broken bricks isnt for me.

After measuring, inventing, sketching, measuring, walking around in circles and some more measuring and thinking I’d decided that it was all too hard and that the old BBQ had to go! I’d tried to save it to no avail, and with the entire area needing a re-model it was time to consult the sledgehammer of destiny. The kids were excited, an opportunity for parent sponsored destruction – bring it! The only rules were, don’t kill each other and you can…

A great night at Traditional Brick Ovens for a Pizza Master Class with Tom from Pizza E Mozzarella Bar. Learnt some good techniques, enjoyed a load of pizza and met some equally excited pizza peeps. We all had the chance to knead and prepare our own pizzas, with 13 people participating that was a lot of pizza to eat and make. I created a simple pie of rosemary, anchovies, chilli and garlic oil and it went down a treat. I’d…

On a cool Summer’s day i headed to my  friends dad’s cattle farm on a mission to catch Yabbies. We met earlier to sort nets, ice and beer for our day’s mission and arrived at the farmgate ready to catch our tasty quarry. With the nets set in 3 of the dams we waited and enjoyed a cold beer and went exploring with camera in hand. A few beers later and some pics of the farm surrounds, shearing shed and…