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My first oven had a diameter of 42" The pictures on the right show the oven being fired.

Left, Hand made pasta is cooked in individual terracotta bowls after the fire is pushed to one side. The fire browns the top layer making the pasta crisp. Right, Roasting potatoes in a skillet, chicken and a small leg of lamb on a wire rack at 400F.

This is my new oven being fired the diameter of this oven is almost 50" and takes about 21/2 to 3 hours to fire up.

Right are some photos of 2004 Christmas dinner, everything was cooked in the oven with room to spare.

From top right

Vegetables ready to be roasted

Stuffed Cherry Peppers

Eggplant Rollatini

 Pork Loin

 Baked Manicotti (not shown)

 While the oven was firing I roasted some peppers on the coals and fried some hot peppers, also on the hot coals.

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Brick Oven bread

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APPLE SEASON

We spent a Saturday afternoon picking apples and ended up coming home with a bushel of Golden Delicious, what are we going to do with all these apples? I fired the oven then we peeled, cut and seasoned the apples left and filled 13 pie crusts.

Crisp topping goes on the apple pies and 2 pumpkin pies are also made and placed in the oven, it took about 1 hr to bake the 15 pies. I think the neighborhood was filled with the smell of baking apple pies, now what do we do with 13 apple & 2 pumpkin pies?

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