This will be quite a short post. The bag lady is truly bagged today. She was a very industrious little bag yesterday and put up (canned) a whole whack of pizza sauce.
The bag lady had a bumper crop of tomatoes this year and has been canning like a crazy person. (she figures that counts for something toward saving the environment...re-using the jars...)
The pizza sauce is for use on the pizza we make in our outdoor oven. A couple of years ago the bag lady decided to build an outdoor oven to bake bread and pizza. It took a long time (and a false start), but she finally got the job done. The result is not especially aesthetically pleasing, but it works. There was a minor blip when a very small part fell off (back to the drawing board), but it has now been repaired and works beautifully.
You haven't had pizza 'til you've had it baked in a wood-fired oven! It cooks extremely quickly (perfect pizza in around 2 minutes!) and tastes out-of-this-world. Of course, the home-made pizza sauce might make just a teensy bit of difference, too.
We have enjoyed several pizza parties - we supply the oven, dough, sauce and toppings, and everyone makes their own pizza, and brings their own beer! Fabulous, and great fun.
And yes, the bag lady built the oven in the photo 98% on her own - she had some help one day with mixing the cement for the cladding. (unfortunately, taking full responsibility for building it also means she has to take full responsibility for how ugly it is, and for when things fall off...)
