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My Oatiferous 50/50

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I've decided I don't really like the taste of wheat bran in a loaf that much. It's fine up to about 30% wholewheat in a loaf, but after that, I find the strong, bitter flavour of the bran is not really that nice.

One way round it is to sieve out the bran and put it in your muesli, so really you are baking with high extraction flour, but for this bake, I decided to try something a little different.

Pizza

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Had some fun making small pizzas (less than 10 inches). 65% hydration dough with tomato sauce, home grown basil, fresh mozzarella (+ anchovies for first one below), and a drizzle of EVOO.

YUM!

 

Red Rice Kamut Spelt Bread

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I bought some "Organic Madagascar Pink-Red Rice" at Whole Foods a few weeks ago and wanted to use some of the leftover cooked rice in a bread.  I overcooked the rice a little bit when making it for dinner but it worked out perfectly in the bread.  You can see the grains in the crumb and it added a nice subtle but rich flavor to the final bread.

I haven't used any Kamut lately and figured spelt would be a nice compliment and add some extra nutty flavor.  The lemon honey and Parmesan with sun-dried tomatoes olive oil added another layer of flavor.

1-2-3 Double levain -rye SD and AYW

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Nice easy very minimal hands on bread. 200g/400g/600g. The levain was built from leftovers after the lovely date pecan bake and 100 g of apple YW was used directly into the 400g of liquid along with 30g yogurt and 30g of honey. Two sets of lamination folds at 30 min apart and a bulk ferment for a couple hours cause I got busy and forgot! It tripled! Yikes. Quickly shaped and retarded. Again due to stuff it sat till supper time the next day . Baked the usual graniteware roaster 10 min covered 500 degrees, 5 min covered at 465 then 20 min uncovered.

Rimacinata “00”

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and ramacinata semolina. Ordered both flours. Amazing quality. The pasta is like yellow velvet. Helps that we had local double yolk eggs. Served with a pasta Fresca sauce. Fresh local tomatoes, caper berries chopped, my preserved Meyer Lemons diced, pancetta , a squeeze of anchovy paste, EVOO fresh basil and Parmesan grated on top. Toasted SD.