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Mario Batali's Lakeside Pizza Oven
Have you seen Kiko Denzer's book? I've made ovens from it before. It's fast, cheap and easy and burns for hours-- in a good way.
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My gardening ambitions increase each year. This year we planted more than a dozen herbs including lesser known items such as sorrel, borage, chamomile, pineapple sage and the usual suspects like basil, thyme, oregano et al. We planted many types of kohl: cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and collards, which the slugs enjoy thoroughly. I planted pumpkins (grotesquely large and petit ones too), watermelon, cantaloupe and raspberries. Rhubarb came back to balance out the sweet stuff. Oh. right, there's asparagus, beans, peas and fennel too. And onions and garlic.
We planted, intentionally and through accidental compost volunteers, 16 types of tomatoes. This is where the favorite item comes into play: Tomatillos de Milpa. These purple tomatillos are as sweet as a grape with a firm flesh and circus-like skin, creating purple flags where the paper parts and exposes the flesh to the sun. It is a prolific bearer of fruit and seducer or pollinators.