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Bon Appetite features my Batard folding bread knife with corkscrew.

April 27, 2013 by cvo

Expert bread baker Charlie van Over wondered why a folding bread knife could not be produced and took his idea for a pocket bread knife to Lamson & Goodnow, American manufacturers of the LamsonSharp range. The Bâtard Folding Picnic knife is the result of this collaboration, possibly be the best picnic knife ever made!

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Experimenting with My Baguette Formula for Best Bread Ever Revision

March 18, 2013 by cvo

  I’m testing new recipes for the revised Best Bread Ever. This is my second test making the baguettes at home in my Viking oven.  The baking stone I am currently using was given to me by the oven manufacturer Woodstone a few years ago to test.  I am very pleased with the results. No photo of the […]

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Cooking with a Mother Fire

March 11, 2013 by cvo

I am working on an article about using what I call a Mother Fire when cooking over wood using a Tuscan grill in a fireplace. Here is the fire ablaze.  The idea is that when the embers die down under the grill, you take fresh coals from the timbers burning in the left side of […]

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Lobster Cooked in the Wood Oven

February 12, 2013 by cvo

In the dead of winter under an avalanche of snow, this reminds me of the good meals to come. We like to roast lobsters on a rack inside our wood oven. (Priscilla took this photo in September.) First I preheat the grill. Then I place the lobsters, cut side down, on the rack.  This seems […]

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Pizza Presto

January 25, 2013 by cvo

  Making pizza at home has been a passion for years. (In fact, many of my first clients were in the pizza business. )  We have great luck baking in our home oven outfitted with a baking stone.  But recently we built this oven in our yard.  

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From a Bed of Ashes

April 13, 2012 by cvo

We cook and supplement the heat in our home using wood. Here are some links and information about building a cooking and heating fire.

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