Moose Eaters Brick Oven Trattoria - opening soon, I hope.
I still owe my wife a sauna and an outdoor old-school, brick, mortar and stone, wood-fired, stand-alone, bread and pizza oven.
Years ago, I cooked/prep cooked/worked at a counter-culture-meets-sports-bar pizza, sandwich, beer and wine joint that would later become a music venue. As the former sports and hippie bar, yes, LOTS of drugs were sold and ingested there, while bets were being placed with bookies over the same telephone(s); nearly got me in deep shit. (*If you're dealing a lot, DON'T use the same phones that the local bookies are into; bad idea altogether... for obvious reasons). I made more money there on coke and weed, along with a bit of acid and speed, than I ever did cutting onions, pepperoni sticks or mushrooms, lemme' tell ya'.
But while I loved cooking for many years, and it brought back the happier times of growing up, with good smells in the air, etc., I'd listen to those who would encourage finding what you love to do, and doing it for a living, and that would, in those persons' opinions, be the bets of all worlds.
I had a different take on that. I had seen the public get all prissy over minute bullshit, and figured that if I were to cook professionally, in any kind of environment that required speed, and I had to deal with unappreciative customers, it'd likely kill my love of cooking, so I stayed away from it.
My older son's dream (one of many, but a primary focus over the last bunch of years) has been to put together a food truck, which, from my looking, would require a bare minimum investment to purchase something decent and functional, would be around $30,000+, and that would still leave out inspections, business licenses, insurance on the rig and business, etc.
But if the reaper doesn't take me out any time in the immediate future, there'll be a wood-fired sauna (12' x 16' including the dressing/change room), and a stand-alone brick, stone and mortar pizza and bread oven in the back yard.
Pictures of tonight's pizza effort coming soon... I hope..