The Bread Bakers Apprentice: Portuguese Sweet Bread

March 22, 2010

I’ve meaning to post about this since last weekend, but I finally went out and purchased the The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. In all the reading I had been doing online at various bread sites, Reinhart and his books are constantly referenced, and this book in particular [...]

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LifeHacker: Enjoy Fresh Bread with One Minute of Prep

March 18, 2010

Thanks to my good friend Scott Schnaars for the heads up on the recipe from LifeHacker on making fresh bread with one minute of prep. In this case, it was a Ciabatta, which explains the limited prep. It uses the No Knead method and takes advantage of the fact that Ciabatta is pretty much a [...]

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Weekend Round Up: Pizza and “Baguettes”

March 17, 2010

I know posting a weekend round up on a Wednesday sort of misses the point, but until someone gives me a large grant so I can focus my efforts on chronicling the trials and travails of a beginning bread maker this will have to do. I decided to make pizza on Friday, and I really [...]

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Cinnamon Twist Bread

March 17, 2010

So I published my first blog post…ever…admittedly with a great deal of trepidation. I was nervous about being accurate…about being some level of a “bread expert.” I was writing it on a site called “breadguys” for crying out loud…I needed to sound like I knew on some level what I was talking about. Well…I’ve been [...]

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Sourdough Starter: The Final Chapter

March 16, 2010

First of all, I want to thank all those people who supported my effort to make a sourdough starter. You are a small, yet loyal bunch, and when things were at their darkest, you encouraged me to continue. Amid the cries of “you can’t do it”, “what is that smell?”, and “OH MY GOD! What [...]

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Sourdough Starter: Day 4 and Day 5

March 15, 2010

These two days are combined as the Day 5 instructions can happen anytime after the Day 4 fermentation is complete – in this case it was 7 hours and not 24. Day 4 took a little longer than expected – I was waiting for the starter to double and after 24 hours there was no [...]

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Homemade Bagels

March 12, 2010

My sincere thanks to Brendan for the introduction to breadguys.com…and for getting this whole project off the ground. My apologies for delays for my participation, it may have been Brendan’s suggestion to me yesterday that he was disappointed that he didn’t name the site breadguy.com instead of the plural version. So with that guilt trip [...]

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Sourdough Starter: Day 3

March 12, 2010

Day 3 is upon us, and so far all the different descriptions of hows things should look, act, and smell from my starter guide seem to be on target. The volume has increased, I’m getting the bubbles, but I haven’t gotten the bad smell I warned about: Around Day 3 or 4, something happens that [...]

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Sourdough Starter: Day 2

March 11, 2010

Starterpalooza is in full swing in our kitchen, with the day two instructions from our starter guide telling us to take our original mixture, put it in a bowl and add 1/4 cup flower and 1/8 cup water. You then mix, return to the original bowl (no need to wash it apparently), flatten it out [...]

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Jim Lahey Interview from the Leonard Lopate Show

March 10, 2010

Jim Lahey, of No Knead Bread Method fame, gave a short interview on the Leonard Lopate Show on February 10th – I was going to just post the link to podcast and saw they posted a video of part of the actual interview to YouTube too. Since Lahey’s book is what got me into baking [...]

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