Roundboy is more than just a brick oven

Your Roundboy Oven is so much more than an oven. It's a beautiful addition to your home, patio, barn, and more! It brings families and friends together. Most importantly, it makes amazing meals with an incredible taste! Owners of Roundboy Ovens are coming up with new and exciting recipes and things to do with their ovens week by week! What will you come up with?

Karl recently transformed an antique hay rake into a chandelier for his family's barn as his latest project. 

His wife, Lisa, is one step closer to turning the barn into a dining room for Thanksgiving dinner later this year! "Fingers crossed for the fireplace to heat it and a big dining room table," Lisa exclaimed!

Their plan is to cook their turkey in their Roundboy Oven and bring their closest friends and family together for the holiday. Everyone will bring a side dish and they will celebrate Thanksgiving in the barn!

"I am so pleased with his idea of making a  chandelier out of the hay rake," Lisa said. "The rake was left sitting in the woods by the previous owner."

Currently, Karl and Lisa are taking votes on using candles or electrifying the chandelier... What's your vote?!

The Antique Hay Rake:

The Transformation:

The Finished Product:

Try a Tomato and Basil Pizza in Your Roundboy Oven for You and Your Guests!

One of our Roundboy customers recently had guests visit from Chicago, Illinois - they knew they had to pull out all the stops! 

They fired up their Roundboy Oven and got to cooking. 

 After preparing the dough and gathering the necessary items for toppings, they were enjoying a delicious basil and tomato pizza cooked to perfection!

 "It even passed their pizza test - they loved it." 

Check out this delicious tomato and basil recipe that you can try in your Roundboy Oven this 4th of July!

Soft-shells, oysters, shrimp, pizza, galore!

One of our proud Roundboy Oven owners had an amazing Memorial Day Party that we needed to share!

Ronald used a cast iron skillet. He started with his soft-shell crab in an egg-wash then put them into his fish fry batter. The griddle he used had oil on it and he put oil onto the soft-shell. After flipping the soft-shell once it was done in about 3 minutes. After that, Ronald pulled the soft-shell out, covered it in cheese, and put it back in for roughly 35 seconds. After removing it from the heat, he mounted it on a soft roll lathered in his pickled cabbage coleslaw and some of his homemade thousand island dressing. 

Let the prepping begin!

"I also char-grilled the oysters in there too along with the BBQ shrimp boil."

"It was my birthday. I fed 60 people 4 dozens soft-shells, 200 oysters, and 60 lb of shrimp. We had 20 lbs of flour for pizza. What a day! Not to mention the meats too!"

Wood Fired Pizza Parties & Next Level BBQs!

With summer right around the corner, that means family gatherings, celebrations and more! Graduations, Memorial Day, Father's Day and July 4th are just a few of the special occasions that call for parties and BBQs with the ones you love most. Just think how much fun a wood fired pizza party can be or even being able to host something a bit different then your typical barbecue!

There are many different recipes you can try out with your Roundboy Oven!

Savory BBQ ribs straight from a Roundboy Oven!

Or you can try a cheeseburger pizza!

Top your wood fired pizza crust with hamburger, your choice of cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions and more! Whatever your cheeseburger-loving heart desires!

Or how about a deliciously, refreshing "salad" pizza!

Enjoy a pizza with a crispy wood fired crust and melted Mozzarella, Asiago and Havarti cheese topped with ice cold salad drenched in Basil Parmesan Vinaigrette.

Caramelized Onion Pizza & S'mores!

Karl planted corn early as a test to see if he can outsmart a frost! He covered it with plastic. Fingers crossed we will have early corn on the cob to roast in the oven. He also planted Ailsa Craig onions that are so sweet you can eat them like an apple. They were the inspiration for the caramelized onion pizza we made. 

We baked everything below in a new oven design we hope to launch soon! Stay tuned!

We also baked a sausage and sweet pepper pizza that we top after we take out of the oven with hot pepper honey. Check out the video we made here to hear the wonderful crunch of the pizza crust as we cut it!

To top off the evening, we made s'mores with milk chocolate and marshmallows melted and roasted in a cast iron pan. We dipped the delicious blend with graham crackers right from the cast iron pan.

Here is a picture of our daughter Amanda and her sheepdog, Daphne, who stayed in on a Saturday night because we were baking in the Roundboy. 

ROUNDBOY BRUNCH FRATTATA

A great start to a lazy Sunday morning.

10 eggs, 6 slices of wood fired bacon, a handful of chopped spinach, 1 cup of milk, 1/4 cup of heavy cream, a handful of cheese of your choice or not and a little salt and pepper. We forgot the cheese...

Take out the fire after you fry the bacon and cool down to 350* to 400* and pour the eggs right into the same pan as you fried the bacon. ( It is a lazy Sunday brunch so why dirty another pan? )

The Frattata is done when it puffs up nice and fluffy.

So delicious! Next time maybe we won't be lazy and we will bake a loaf of wood fired brick oven bread first...

ROASTING PUMPKIN

Holidays and wood fired baking are made for each other. Baking with our wood fired oven is always a "fun day". It brings us together and is really more of a hobby then just a meal. When you add a holiday to the mix it becomes very special. Something about the cold day and baking and roasting outside, the fire and creating great food the way it was done in the past makes our Thanksgiving day our favorite holiday.
This year we added roasting pumpkin for our pumpkin pies. I always make my own pumpkin instead of canned pumpkin from the store. I usually boil in down on the stove and it is not an easy task! It was a nice surprise to find roasting the pumpkin in our Roundboy Oven was very easy. The results were a sweeter thicker pumpkin filling for my pies. We made the pumpkin filling a few weeks before and then froze it. We also took a trip to a turkey farm for a delicious turkey breast. On the big day we roasted our turkey in the wood fired oven as usual. The conversation at the table was all about the turkey and the morning was spent around the oven with everyone having a hand in the roasting. Very different from the days of me in the kitchen preparing everything myself!

Cut the top off the pumpkin

scrape out the insides and coat with olive oil

cut the pumpkin in half and place inside down on a baking sheet

We roasted in our Roundboy at a temperature around 400* and the pumpkin was done when the skin was shriveled and soft.

I scraped out the pumpkin from its skin and used my food processor to blend to a creamy filling. I froze the pumpkin in 2 cup quantities as the recipe calls for

Delicious! My pie recipe you can find here Pumpkin Pie

 

 

 

 

 

Pizza Dough

1 1/2 cups of warm water

1 teaspoon active dry yeast

4 cups General Mills high gluten flour

1 Tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon olive oil

 Place 1/4 cup of warm water in a small bowl and add yeast. Let sit for 5 minutes.

Place remaining water in your mixer bowl and begin mixer on medium speed. Add remaining ingredients and yeast mixture and continue to mix until dough forms a smooth ball and " cleans" the side of the bowl.

Cover and let rest for 20 minutes.

Resume mixing on medium speed until the dough forms a smooth ball.

Place in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise for 2 1/2 hours. 

* I prefer to make the dough ahead and let it rise in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Allow the dough to warm to room temperature before using.    This recipe makes 4 ten ounce pies.

 Original recipe from "The Art of Wood Fired Cooking" by Andrea Mugnaini

THE HEAT IS ON...

This year Fall in North East Pennsylvania has been beautiful. Perfect for baking in our Roundboy oven. In the Fall we like to add some comfort food to our Sunday afternoon pizza making. The oven holds the heat nicely after baking pizza. I like to remember that the heat is on....
So why waste all that heat stored in the oven?
Perfect for our cast iron pot and some ham and bean soup..

And how about some bread after the hot coals burn out.....

 
 This made a nice hot meal for after work on Monday......

 We enjoyed a great Fall pizza on Sunday topped with sweet potato and kale on a rosemary and beer crust...

 

Then used all that heat for Monday nights ham and bean soup with fresh baked bread. What a great way to start the week!
Recipe for Sweet Potato and Kale Pizza

IT ALL STARTED WITH A FIRE

 Started a fire in the oven....

 Roasted some ribs.....

 Next we made Cheeseburger pizza...

To finish we enjoyed pizza with a crispy wood fired crust and melted Mozzarella, Asiago and Havarti cheese topped with ice cold salad drenched in Basil Parmesan Vinaigrette. I call it salad pizza. Karl calls it his favorite!