Time for my, what...bi-yearly post, right? (We let Floyd do the bread baking around here.)
Today our daughter turned three and for her birthday she requested a blue pony on her cake.
Here is the cake she got, prior to the three candles being added to the floating clouds.
Isn't that beautiful? Nice brown crust, good oven spring, great flavor.
The bottom? Oh...
Chocolate Sourdough
Here is a picture of the Cholocate Chip Sourdough I tried last week. It didn't come out exactly as I'd hoped, but it is was still pretty good. I mean, c'mon.... chocolate.... sourdough... how can you go wrong?
Three Breads. One Day.
Loaf 1: ~5lb Sourdough High Extraction Miche Type loaf
Loaf 2: Garlic Explosion (Garlixplosion?) W/ Cheese
Loaf 3: Spinach and Feta Cheese with Caramelized Onions.
They were all around 65-70% hydration doughs, all with a small amount of sourdough culture thrown in as a preferment/leavening. The miche was leavened solely by the sourdough, I added some active dry yeast to the other two.
PICTURES!!!
Sourdough and Garlic Sourdough
After a lonnnnggg summer of gardening, working on the house, and work in general. I am back, and I am glad to see alot of the old gang still here. JMonkey, ehanner, browndog, AnnieT, bluezebra, bwraith, and the rest...HELLO... Nice to see you still around. And of course hello Floyd, nice to see some of the neat tweaks to the webpage. To everyone I have missed out on meeting, hello, I look forward to talking bread with you. Hope everyone had a great summer...... Its nice to be back.
