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Sweet and Spicy Roasted Cauliflower Soup

 Roasted Cauliflower Soup

Sweet and Spicy Roasted Cauliflower Soup

I love roasting vegetables in general in the Wood Stone Home oven, and often I’ll just decide to turn the tasty morsels into a soup such as this creamy, curried cauliflower purée. This recipe is sure to become a favorite in your repertoire for both comforting family dinners and entertaining alike.

  • Roasting cauliflower in the Wood Stone Home oven intensifies both its sweet and nutty flavors.
  • Aromatic spices also get a flavor boost by being heated in the oven. 
  • Buttermilk lends a welcome tang to the finished soup. 
  • Click here for the full recipe.

TIP:

~Chef Ann

 

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Host the Big Game!

Football Favorites from your Wood Stone Home Oven

It’s that time of year again to showcase your best bite-sized tasty treats! Gather friends and family around your Wood Stone Home oven to watch the next big game. What could be better than eating hearthside for the entire party?

Whether you’re catering for your family or for an entire crowd, these easily prepared recipes are sure to leave your guests wanting more. Try the Wood Stone Home Spiced Meatballs in Saffron Garlic Sauce, Classic Stuffed Mushrooms or Prosciutto Wrapped Dates filled with Feta and Mint (featured recipe below).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prosciutto Wrapped Dates filled with Feta and Mint

Ingredients

  • 8 oz. small pitted dates, about 32
  • 4 oz. feta cheese, cut into 32 small pieces
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • 3 oz. prosciutto, about 8 slices each cut into 4 pieces about 4-in. long        
  • Olive oil spray    

Preparation

Oven Temperature: 550–580 degrees
Flame Height: 5

Coat an aluminum sheet pan with olive oil spray.

Stuff each date with a piece of cheese and a small mint leaf. Wrap tightly with a strip of prosciutto. Line the dates on the prepared pan and spritz the tops with a bit more of the olive oil.

Cook in the center of the oven for about 2 minutes. Rotate the pan 180 degrees and cook another 2 – 3 minutes more until prosciutto is evenly crisped.

Enjoy!

For additional tapas and hors d’oeuvres recipes or ideas, visit us online at woodstonehomearchive.com.

 

Wood Stone Corporation, based in Bellingham Washington, has been manufacturing stone hearth and specialty commercial cooking equipment for the foodservice industry since 1990.  Wood Stone equipment is featured in more than 10,000 commercial and residential installations in over 75 countries worldwide. For more information about Wood Stone Home products, please visit our website at: woodstonehomearchive.com or call 800.578.6836.

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Prepare a FALL-bulous Backyard Dining Experience!

As the weather changes and colors begin to fade from bright greens and pinks to crimson, orange and gold and the aroma of pumpkin spice lattes fills the air, it’s time to prepare for the upcoming fall season. What better way to celebrate the change of season than by hosting a sendoff backyard dinner? Perhaps a Spiced Duck Breast with Roasted Figs or Cedar Plank Salmon accompanied with Oven Roasted Ratatouille and a glass of chilled Viognier or a bold Cabernet Sauvignon? 

The Wood Stone Home website offers a rich library of mouthwatering, crowd-approved recipes designed to help prepare the perfect menu for you and your guests. With the simplicity of operating a Wood Stone Home oven combined with the uniqueness of our stone hearth single-piece floor, catering for friends and family is a breeze. Bring the restaurant dining experience to your home and cook like the pros!

Not currently a Wood Stone Home oven owner? Visit our website for more information about available products, video tutorials, chef testimonials and more! Since 1990 when Wood Stone first entered the marketplace we have installed thousands of ovens worldwide. You can find Wood Stone ovens at California Pizza Kitchen, Romano’s, Macaroni Grill, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and other commercial foodservice operations near you. Call Wood Stone Home direct at 1-(800) 578-6836.

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Inspiration from World Spice Merchants!

If you happen to travel through Seattle on your way to visit us at the Wood Stone factory in Bellingham, be sure to stop by World Spice Merchants’ fantastic storefront near the famed Pike Place Market. From the moment you walk in the door you’ll be intoxicated by the aromas and sights waiting to be explored. If you aren’t visiting Seattle anytime soon, fear not, as their website is almost as enticing, albeit missing the fragrance.

I went online recently to order some Aleppo pepper, which I use in recipes such as Pizza with Brussels Sprout Leaves, Pancetta, Lemon and Aleppo Pepper, and began browsing the spice blends just for fun. The next thing I know, my virtual shopping cart is overflowing, and in a few days I had to clear actual cupboard space in order to store my treasure trove of delicious, exotic and exceedingly fresh new spices. World Spice offers their blends either ground or whole.

The Ras El Hanout in its whole form is so beautiful combining exotics such as grains of paradise, nigella seeds, long peppers and dried rose petals.

Clearly time to turn on the Wood Stone Home oven. I ground some of the Ras El Hanout and used it in place of the spices listed in Braised Lamb Stew with Autumn Vegetables with delicious results! Next up was Cedar Plank Salmon using the Seattle Salmon Rub followed by Tarragon Roasted Chicken with the Orange Tarragon Blend.

Yum!
~Chef Ann

worldspice.com

 

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Cold Soup from a Hot Oven!

It may seem like an oxymoron, but using the Wood Stone Home oven to roast the tomatoes and peppers in this recipe results in the most delicious gazpacho you’ll ever eat!  The flavors become more concentrated and the skins peel off easily.

 

You’ll need Farmers’ Market fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, garlic and tarragon as well as extra virgin olive oil, sherry vinegar, country levain bread and spices. 

Gazpacho Ingredients

Roast the tomatoes and peppers in the Wood Stone Home oven.

Gazpacho-Roasting in Oven

After peeling the tomatoes and peppers, mix all ingredients well in a casserole, cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight. (photo)

Gazpacho-After Refrigerator

Purée first in the blender and then force through a food mill.

Gazpacho-Food Mill 

Adjust seasonings and serve well chilled.

Gazpacho

Click here for the full recipe: http://woodstonehomearchive.com/resources/recipes/starters/gazpacho/

TIP: Use a high quality, fruity olive oil for this.  And don’t skimp on the amount; it adds not only fabulous flavor but creates a creamy and luxurious mouthfeel.

 ~Chef Ann

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BBQ Chicken Pizza à la California Pizza Kitchen on the Road

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It’s BBQ season at kitchen showrooms and Wood Stone Home makes the rounds to many Cook-Off events with our mobile oven to do battle with many other manufacturers of fine outdoor kitchen equipment.

This year I decided to serve up BBQ Chicken Pizza as a nod to our largest commercial customer, California Pizza Kitchen. With over 200 oven installations world-wide, Wood Stone’s relationship with CPK goes back 20 years and interestingly, was the impetus for our first gas-fired oven. Wood Stone Home oven owners reap the benefits of this innovation today, with gas-fired ovens providing convenience, as well as serving areas where wood-only ovens are not allowed due to local regulations for air quality. For more of the story of the relationship of Wood Stone and CPK…

 

 

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Spelt Pizza Dough

Spelt Pizza Dough

Spelt is an ancient species of wheat, and while related to modern wheat, it is often tolerated by people who have a wheat allergy, so this is a great recipe to have in your repertoire. This dough produces a delicious high-fiber crust which has a slightly sweet and distinctively nutty flavor.

Stay tuned to this blog as my next project is to develop a Gluten-Free Pizza Dough recipe! 

 ~Chef Ann

( It should be noted that spelt does contain gluten, so this should not be served to guests with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.)

 

 

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S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pizza

A new Wood Stone customer recently sent us this note and the included photo looked so tasty we just had to share!

Ok…we’re really loving our pizza oven! Dinner was cooked in it 5 nights in a row (along with a nice lunch), and tonight I tested out a s’mores chocolate chip cookie dough pizza for a Girl Scout party. Delicious!!

I don’t think we’ll ever cook indoors again! Thank you Woodstone!  – Christina

To make this tasty dessert pizza yourself:

Begin with your favorite chocolate chip cookie dough.  While regular pizzas bake directly on the hearth, this cookie “pizza” is best baked on a round pizza pan or cookie sheet which has been coated with cooking spray. Press or roll the cookie dough into a circle about 1/4 inch thick.  If your oven has been up to pizza temperature for dinner already (560°-590° F), bake the cookie in the doorway with the Flame Height at 1.  If you are just heating it up for this recipe, you can bake it with an oven temperature of 400° F and cook more in the center of the oven.  Either way you’ll need to rotate the cookie 180° during baking to brown evenly.  When cookie is almost done, top with crumbled graham crackers, chopped chocolate bars and mini marshmallows.  Return to oven and bake until chocolate is melted and marshmallows are golden brown.  Enjoy!

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Easy Valentine’s Dinner

Chocolate Gourmandize

Looking for a quick yet elegant Valentine’s Day dinner idea?  Check out our latest Wood Stone Home oven recipe for Seared Sea Scallops with Mango Pepper Sauce!  It’s a snap to prepare in the hot oven, leaving the rest of the evening for romance.  Finish with Chocolate Gourmandize as no Valentine dinner is complete without chocolate.

 If you’re looking for other ideas, take a peek at our archived Valentine blog post from last year.

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Wood Stone Home Cooking Class!

It’s been awhile since we have been able to connect with oven owners in our neighborhood so we thought, “What better way to connect with old friends than in front of the oven?”   The complimentary class was a great way to share, engage and reconnect around stone hearth cooking.  Chef Frank Milward hosted the class and showcased some tasty Tapas and Hors d’oeuvres, including: Oysters Rockefeller, Classic Stuffed Mushrooms, BBQ Spiced Salmon Bites, Clams Cataplana, Spanish Potato Tortilla with Chive Aioli, Pimentón Garlic Shrimp with Orange Oil, Flatbread with Romesco Sauce, Bananas Foster Flambé and Pizza with Mahón Cheese and Tarragon, giving our guests some fun and new ideas on how they could expand their entertaining repertoire for the upcoming holiday season.  We truly enjoy spending time with our customers (who we consider part of the Wood Stone family) and hope to host more events like this in the future at the factory and at showrooms across the U.S.[nggallery id=25]