What do the dutch know about pizza?

So after the cremation of the banana bread I decided it was time to try again with the Dutch oven, but this time with a little more finesse. 


Rather than trusting to the variability of wood I opted for the consistency of charcoal briquettes. Along with them I bought one of those chimney barbecue starters - from B&Q for £12.


So armed with these I set up a slightly ramshackle platform and started cooking. 


The video I made follows.  

Before anyone says anything - I'm sorry for the poor audio - next time I'll speak louder. I must also apologise for the woeful scripting and editing. Again, hopefully I'll get things a bit slicker.

What I won't apologise for is the pizza - it really did taste great.  As food for the great outdoors goes it's got some good points: most of the ingredients can be easily bought tinned or dried; it's flexible so you can make good substitutions if needed, and it's nice to be able to cook something outdoors that doesn't automatically involve grilling the life out of something.

So that's it, applying a controllable source of heat to a Dutch oven, gives you the ability to cook things way, way, beyond what you'd expect from an open fire or barbecue.

So my advice - if you're camping soon (in the much anticipated Indian Summer!) buy yourself  one of these cast iron monsters and give it a whirl.

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Thanks for reading (and commiserations for viewing).