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As we approach Memorial Day this month, all of us at Forno Bravo would like to remember the men and women in the armed forces who gave their lives while serving our country. We hope you can fire up your oven over the weekend and bring family and friends together to celebrate the holiday.
This month, our guest chefs bring you some great recipe ideas for a Memorial Day gathering. If you have your own wood fired culinary creation, enter it into our Summer Wood Fired Recipe Contest and you could win a shopping spree in the Forno Bravo Store. Bella Outdoor Living can help you liven up your summer get-togethers with savings on a pizza oven during the Memorial Day Sale.
Whether you're a new oven owner, an old pro, in the process of building an oven or an "oven hopeful," we hope you stay in touch with us through the Forum, social media or contact us through an email from the website or a phone call during business hours at (800) 407-5119. Have a great Memorial Day!
The Forno Bravo Team
Community Cookbook- Memorial Day Recipes
With Memorial Day around the corner, our guest chefs have created recipes that are sure to be a hit at your holiday gathering. Fire up your ovens and make room for pizzas, hot dogs and a pot of baked beans!
Chef Lea Bergen
Wood Fired Global Baked Beans
Are you still opening bottles of Heinz 57 when it comes to culinary pals for your hot dogs? You've gone to so much trouble shopping for great ingredients (my absolute favorite dogs come from Northwind Farms in Tivoli, NY), but you continue to underestimate how delicious homemade baked beans can be, especially from a wood fired oven. Step it up, my friends.
This wood fired recipe crosses many borders: Mexican chipotles, Chinese Sichuan peppercorns and star anise, our own maple syrup and ketchup, Spain's orange marmalade, and of course, a tip of the hat to Boston's baked beans tradition. Read more...
Ci sentiamo presto!
Lea
Brigit Binns
Rapini, Salami, Meyer Lemon and Robiola Pizza
It's not that I dislike putting tomato sauce on pizza—and even if I did, I wouldn't admit to it here!—but I like to let the dough shine through in all its glory, with a light topping of rustic greenery and salumery. Here's an excellent example of my California Wine Country style with pizza: we use admirable restraint with the amount of toppings, but all the flavors are big and powerful. My favorite secret topping...Read more
Let the revels begin!
Brigit
Brad English
Wood Fired Lobster Pizza
Let me say up front that this won’t be the cheapest pizza you’ll make if you follow me into this rabbit hole, but I will say it will be a pizza you won’t soon forget!
I love grilled lobster. The charring of the lobster “meat” gives it just a that much more flavor and even a slight textural difference that if it were just steamed. It also frankly just looks so much better - like a perfectly done pizza crust with good charring. Lobster was on my mind. I have never tried cooking it in my wood fired oven. I was pretty sure my 900 plus degree oven could manage to char the lobster “almost” as much as my grill. I was right, of course, but what to do with the rest of the pizza? Read more…
Enjoy!
Brad
Product Spotlight: Casa2G 90 Home Gas Pizza Oven Kit
The Casa2G 90 is our most popular modular oven kit and with the addition of the gas assist option, it will only grow in popularity. The gas option kits include all of the items in our traditional wood fired pizza oven kits plus a burner that is factory set to natural gas or propane with high and low flame settings to bake bread, make pizza or roast a turkey. Once built, the oven can be heated using gas, wood or a combination of both fuel sources and is UL certified for outdoor use only. The Casa2G90 gas option kit is perfect for people who live in areas with restrictions or bans on outdoor wood fired cooking appliances. To learn more about the home gas assist option on Forno Bravo modular oven kits, visit fornobravo.com.
In This Issue
Memorial Day Recipes from our Chefs
Memorial Day Bella Sale
Casa2G 90 Home Gas Pizza Oven
Pizza Quest New Webisodes in Denver
Memorial Day Sale! Bella Outdoor Living Pizza Oven!
If you've had your eye on a Bella Outdoor Living pizza oven for your backyard, now is the time to make your move so that you, too, can host festive pizza parties this summer! Bella Outdoor Living is having a Memorial Day Sale on the popular Grande 32" stainless steel pizza oven offering 10% off the listed retail price from May 25th until June 12th, 2016. The Bella Grande 32" pizza oven cart is the perfect addition for any outdoor cooking enthusiast. With four wheels, this pizza oven is completely portable and the stainless steel dome provides fast heat up and cool down times. The large fire brick floor ha s over 750 square inches of cooking capacity — enough space for three pizzas at a time. Now that's a pizza party! Enjoy authentic Italian wood fired cooking with a Bella Grand 32" stainless steel pizza oven, and a lower price during the Memorial Day Sale! Shop now at Bella Outdoor Living. Welcome to the world of living outdoors, beautifully!
Wood Fired Community Forum
Forno Bravo is happy to support a global community of wood fired oven enthusiasts through the Wood Fired Community Forum. The members who participate in the Forum are committed to expanding the knowledge and passion for building and using wood fired ovens. Whether it's discussing building an oven, oven management, wood fired cooking, oven tools or posting pictures of your oven or what you cooked last night, you're sure to find something of interest. One of the first Forum members since its inception in 2006, recently posted this message:
"Ten years ago this month, I started building my pizza oven and for 10 years what a joy it has been, I have not used it nearly enough (it cooled down once or twice) but it has been an absolute joy thanks to everybody at Forno Bravo, in the Forum from around the world. It was made much easier with all of your input and your pictures of your oven builds. What a great forum this is. 10 years and counting!"
With new members registering daily, the Forum has grown to over 26,000 members from around the world. We invite you to visit the Forum and join in on the conversation!
Summer Wood Fired Recipe Contest
Do you have a wood fired recipe that gets rave reviews from family and friends? Now is your opportunity to not only share it with other wood fired chefs and enthusiasts, but get rewarded, too! Starting June 1 through July 30, 2016, we are holding a Summer Wood Fired Recipe Contest and the winner will receive a $75.00 shopping spree in the Forno Bravo Store.
Submit your recipes through the Forno Bravo Community Cookbook "Submit a Recipe" button. The winner will be based on the number of votes the recipe receives. A link to the recipes will be posted on the Forno Bravo Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest pages. To be eligible to win, your recipe must include a photo of the dish being cooked in your wood fired oven.
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Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart - New Webisodes from Denver
Our new webisode series on Pizza Quest features a family-owned pizzeria in Denver, Marco's Coal Fired Pizza which recently changed its name to Racca's. I was lucky enough to re-visit Marco's/Racca's on a recent trip to Denver to film a new course on artisan bread baking for Craftsy.com. Get an inside view of the passion and hard work this family puts into their business.
Peter Reinhart's latest video class, Artisan Breads: Ancient and Sprouted Grains, will launch on June 6th on Craftsy.com. Here is a link for a special discounted price for this and other classes: http://goo.gl/K8R8jU When you go to the link, note also that Peter's pizza mini-course is free!
