dabrownman's blog
Lucy’s take On Ian’s Cheesy Garlic Holiday Knots
A few years ago Lucy bookmarked Ian’s Holiday rolls so that we could make them one day and
1849 Gold Rush Fruit Cake IV with 2 Sourdough Starters and Fig Yeast Water
Lucy feels back in her element when she starts getting close to anything remotely close to German baking and the next thing you know she has lost her mind and starts putting all kinds of stuff in whatever recipe she is concocting. She really went wild with this one.
Holiday 5 Grain Sourdough Sprouted Un-Chacon
My lovely wife asked Lucy and I to come up with a bread to give to a married couple who are also friends, mine too, who just happen to own a very nice hair salon in downtown Mesa AZ. They been taking care of the girl’s hair, daughter too, for decades. The catch is, if I mess it up, my girls might look bit odd the next time they come back from the salon – which might be worth it?
I Make Fancy Do Bread – Now I’m Mad
No not mad like crazy whack job mad but mad as hell none the less. I go to Whole Foods ….eeeerrr…… whole paycheck, to get my normal load for whole grains – some oats, spelt, Kamut and who knows what else from the bins. I don’t buy anything else there because I can get the same things I buy much cheaper anywhere else.
40 years ago my thesis in Architectural school was about building a sustainable city
50 Percent Whole 5 Grain Sourdough
Lucy has been crafting bread for my wife of late. I’m still not eating carbs but she is which is good if you like to make bread and can’t make any for yourself. We have been trying to stick to her what she likes as best we can and, this week, we didn’t add in a yeast kicker. The 5 grains were red and white wheat, rye, oat and spelt in equal proportions.
The Death of the Montreal Bagel.
Cousin Jay sent me this article about the death of the Montreal Bagel. Maybe we will have to import Canadian wood into NY and bake NY bagels in a WFO and sell them back into Montreal. The best of both worlds maybe?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-death-of-the-montreal-bagel/tter than either.
Making Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey and Cranberry Sandwiches for Lunch
Wife Needed Bread to Make Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey and Cranberry Sandwiches for Lunch
I’m looking for any excuse to make bread even if I can’t eat it as much as I would like – at least not yet at any rate. My wife was out of her store bought, fake, whole wheat Oroweat bread that she loves so much so I was able to bake her a loaf of SD and poolish bread to tide her over.