When we moved into our little house we were so excited because it had a built-in brick oven/grill in the back patio area. Unfortunately though, a tree's branches hung over the chimney, there was dirt in it, and the cooking level was all rusty.
A couple of weeks ago we asked our guard/buddy Wilfredo if he might be able to help us cut some branches away so that we could maybe use the grill. We took Nika for a walk and when we got back Wilfredo had already cut the branches down. Now all we had to do was clean it up. We took the bricks out of the chimney that were blocking it and scrubbed the rust away. Now it was time to grill.
We invited some friends over to help us out with our experiment and we got together some veggie kabobs, coal, and lighter fluid. The coals were glowing in no time and we feasted.
The next Sunday Matt and I decided to try another experiment . . .brick oven pizza!
We made the dough from scratch . . .after spending 2 days hunting down yeast, one day bargaining with a bakery to sell us the yeast the following day and the second to go pick it up. We let it rise and spread it out in pizza shape. We then put it in the grill until it got golden brown on one side. We took it in the house, flipped it and added the toppings onto the brown side. We added, homemade tomato sauce, eggplant, broccoli, garlic, and cheese and slid it back into the grill. Of course we didn’t have a backers paddle so a plastic plate did the job. We made two pizzas and of course ate two pizzas that night ☺
The fun doesn’t stop there. For Valentine’s Day we decided to make s’mores in our grill. We got the coals to glow, took Nika’s stick from her and popped a marshmallow on it. We found Hershey’s and had to improvise a little with the grams. It was a good Valentine’s treat.
While I felt bad cutting the tree, I think the little treats have made up for it.
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