Pizza party

Making pizza in your own garden is really wounderful, you can make it just as you want it and it taste really good!

I have written about this wood burning owen before in this blog, and here you can se how it looks when I use it for a pizza party, la vera pizza forno a legna!!

Read my earlier entry about pizza here:

http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2011/10/homemade-pizza-al-forno-legna.html

My herb garden

Today the rain is pouring outside, so this photo is taken some days ago. It shows my little herb garden. I must say it is not finished yet, more to come.

Here you can see one pot with rosemary and one with sage and then one with thyme. Then I have two pots with basil - la mia cara basilica - that I use on my pizzas and so much else.

Here is my pizza owen that I wrote about before, love it! It makes so good pizzas, a forno a legna.
Here you can read more about my pizza owen:
 http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2011/10/homemade-pizza-al-forno-legna.html

Soon time for pizza!

Even if ti's still rather cold outside, it will not be long before I could use my pizza owen in the garden again.

My pizza owen, imported from Italy, it's a real "forna a legna". It makes wonderful pizzas!
And if you prefer to grill, you have that too, and a lot of fresh herbs to use.

Napoli - amore mio

Naples is not only about mandolin music, clothes lines between the narrow lanes and local gangsters. Yes, the old folk song O Sole Mio still play in some of the bars, but here you can shop trendy clothes and going to cool clubs and eat well at one of the city's many taverns. Here you can see the most magnificent sights, ranging from churches filled with skulls of unique works from Pompeii and modern paintings.

When I visited the town for the very first time I was overthrown in love. Here was a crazy chaos and a friendly exuberance that affirmed my soul. It was in the 1970:s and the new Naples was probably still pretty far away. Crime was high, few tourists and traffic problems where tangible. It was difficult just to cross the street. People ran towards the direction of travel, no one stopped for a red light, they rather slowed in every time it turned green - because they could meet someone that was going on red ...

A photo of a friend's balcony in central Naples.

Today, almost 30 years later, a whole new city has emerged. Certainly there are old ramshackle buildings remain and still has not completely escaped a wild car. Though the traffic lights are a bit more respected today and the public transport works a lot better. Even if new problems have emerged, like the situation with the garbage.

So all this is actually a quieter city to holiday in than, say, Rome. If you just avoid the worst neighborhoods, as Forcella, during evening and night. And of course, normal safety precautions, like not carrying around everything you own and have in the case of jewels and money and then show it.

Yet the town does not, despite all the practical improvements, lost its own unique soul. Here you can still experience the good life. With all that entails of divine food, magical wonders, amazing shopping and lots of sun and sea. But best of all is still that there are interesting places to visit and unique art treasures to admire. Not to mention how beautiful it is just to look at. 

Most museums are open six days a week, Mondays exception.
I have naturally had to pick just a part of everything there is to look at. To have you once been bitten by Naples, I promise that you will return several times ...

Homemade pizza al forno a legna

Missing this - making my own pizza. It is just to cold now, it is almost november, to make pizza at my own pizza owen. You can see it here.

I bought one from Toscana in Italy last year, so we made pizzas the whole summer, and I must say they are really yummy.
You heat up the owen with wood, chopped in to small pieces.
And then you make the pizzas traditionally, with homemade tomatosauce, olive oil, mozzarella, basil and all the rest.

One of the pizzas is here - at my plate and ready to eat. Buon Appetito!