Cold day, Hot Oven

It was minus 106 today, so it seemed like a day for the oven.

Light Wheat Boule, great taste, still not puffin' enough. Dough is too wet. Will fix on next batch.


Pizza Attempt II, this time with Olive oil rapid pizza dough and not the ready-made bread dough. World of improvement. This batch came out of the freezer after a day's thaw and was stretchy & resiliantm, ready for tossin'! Pizza came out thin enough to shave with. If only I could upgrade our oven to coal or 900 degrees! I'd burn up some 2 minute NY style pies like mad.


3 cheese (parm/feta/mozz) margherita:
Roni/Sausage/Onion with bad photo glare:

Monday Boule

Starting the week off right. Tweaked dough/raising times for more puff.

Breadmaking Secrets

Zoe & Jeff show off their innovative master dough from their popular bookArtisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

Lando's Bakery, Best on Vespa

With the aid of Billy Dee Williams himself (Lando Calrissian from Star Wars) and a secret, crazy-science approach to baking European Peasant Breads, my house has become a veritable carbohydrate factory. If your average grocery store fancy bread stickers at $3, this works out to about 15 cents/loaf. Recession baking ho!

White Boule, pre-bake

After, Air-holes like what. Mega-crusty.
Gorgeous Whole Wheat Boule
Lando's Bagels. Need some work, very chewy & tasty, not quite authentic. Very few Jewish Bakeries in the Star Wars universe...