Russian Cake "ptiche moloko"

This is one of the most famous Russian cakes: "Ptiche Moloko" - (birds milk ). There is no such thing so it means some thing so good it is out of this world. There is a number of variations, with and without biscuit layer ( you can use any type that you managed to master), but what is important is reach "suffle" made from egg whites , sugar and heavy cream: wipe it up with mixer to have a lot of air: use pasteurized egg whites ( make sure there is no flavor added - some target morning breakfast and will not do) Agar agar is used to make it "solid", but it can be substituted with gelatin. After cake is done and set you should cover it with thin layer of good chocolate. Let chocolate to solidify and enjoy your cake after pizza party with hot tea if you still have room left.

If you like to read more about this get this book:




This book is great. It is not your typical how-to cook book: it is so much more. There are tons of pictures and stories about culture of food in Russia for all it different republics. It is amazing. We got other books from this series and we love it.

How to build a wood burning oven book

There are not much real printed books on this subject (we should make one!), mostly web sites, but I found one that seems to take this matter seriously:



It is not a fancy book, but you may want to consider adding it to your books collection if you are serious about wood burning ovens.

Here is another with more pictures if you are really deep in to it as I am :-)



... and finally a book that considered superior on matter of building bread ovens and baking bread, that are operated on lower temperature and a bit different from pizza ovens, still, you may find it usefully and even must if you want to bake bread in your oven: I do!

Carpe Pizza

Don Mario is working on a new and exiting project for pizza funs community: Carpe Pizza. To translate this from Italian (yes, he is giving me lessons, vaffanculo! : thank you very much in Italian, as absolutely beautiful Monica Bellucci said in Shoot 'Em Up - flick more about carrots than pizza) "Carpe Pizza" is for "No crappy pizza". You can read more about this here.

Mario use all kind of cool technologies on his new site to allow you to have your pie and eat it too :-) It is spicy!

Mario also started to contribute more to YouTube ( crapepizza ). You should be familiar with him tossing pie in the air from this post and now you can see how lazy Italian chefs do it:

Japanese pizza

We opened this season with our Japanese friends, so after we had
enough of DOC pizzas, I suggested them to run wild and use any
ingredients they find in my fridg. Japanese pizza 2008 was born. Here
is a receipt:

Mix Japanese mayonese with wasaby to your taste and dress pizza like
you would with tomato souce.

Put some marinated sea weeds and slused soy sousidge.

Some marinated Ginger on top for nice touch.

Sprincle with olive oil if you like and ...

Pizza-San is here !!!

First pizza of 2008 season

It was a huge pleasure to make and bake a first pie. Oven was too hot,
but I just could not wait. It was so good to bite into hot fresh
pizza ...

Pizza season is started a week ago!

Yes! I started my first fire on 16 Feb and we had a blast! Oven was
happy to see wood again. More pictures in next post. Stay tuned!

VOGA from Italy

Modern design. 9.99$ Plastic/ metalic aftertaste. Almost no hungover,
but it will hint about iboorofen in the mornig. Do not drink it:
almost any other Italian vine I tried will be better for you. Try Ill
bastardo for example;-)