Whoohoooooo! summary: we have a tortilla press; cooking corn tortillas is suddenly insanely easy; keep them warm in a lidded casserole dish so they continue to steam and stay soft and pliable. wordless: 15/1/2018 Related: » Corn Tortillas from Scratch (Bookmarked Recipe) » Action! …making corn tortillas
Wordless Not-Wednesday: Tortillas revisited
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New Year’s Challenge: Tartine Polenta Bread (BBB January 2018)
summary: recipe for Tartine Polenta Bread, based on a recipe in “Tartine Bread” by Chad Robertson; definition of corn; using millet in place of corn; following the book recipe produces Slack Bread – worse than the croc!; making my sister happy; importance of recipe testing; overwintering rosemary in an inhospitable climate; a Bread Baking Babes [...] Continue reading »
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Wordless Not-Wednesday: Avocado Toast
summary: Avocado Toast made with Tartine Polenta Bread; good smoked bacon; best breakfast ever!; lazy baker syndrome – either occurs from over-rising, poor gluten development, and/or poor shaping; a Wordless Not-Wednesday post; This is all that was left over: Lazy Baker Syndrome Shaping problem (I think) on Tartine Polenta Bread – [...] Continue reading »
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Rising to the Challenge (January 2018 BBBuddies)
summary: January 2018 Bread Baking Buddies; BBB Tartine Polenta Bread gallery; about the BBBabes Tartine Polenta Bread is January’s BBB project challenge. Bread Baking Buddies (BBB): Tartine Polenta Bread This January, the BBBabes made Tartine Polenta Bread, based on a recipe in Chad Robertson’s book “Tartine Bread”. (Here is the recipe I used.) Not all [...] Continue reading »
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Running Wild with Stacy’s Orange Rosemary Boule
summary: making bread based on a recipe in Jamie Schler’s beautiful cookbook “Orange Appeal”; not following the recipe vs. following the recipe; wild yeast version is good too…. My friend Stacy Livingston Rushton lives, like I do, the expat life. But whereas I’ve spent the last 30 years between France and Italy, Stacy [...] Continue reading »
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Wildness at the BBBabes’ 10th Anniversary Party (BBB February 2018)
summary: recipe for Wild Royal Crown Tortano based on a recipe in “Artisan Baking Across America” by Maggie Glezer, using Jane Mason’s starter and Chad Robertson’s kneading and shaping techniques; information about Bread Baking Babes; BBB’s 10th Anniversary! Bread Baking Babes (BBB) 10th Anniversary: Royal Crown Tortano – Revisited How time flies! The BBBabes have [...] Continue reading »
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fine tuning Tartine Bread….
summary: adding a little rye flour and wheat germ to Chad Robertson’s Tartine bread; Jane Mason natural starter (wheat) is just getting stronger; altering the baking time in the combo-cooker for even better oven spring; getting permission to change the recipe; brief review of “My Kitchen in Rome” by Rachel Roddy; Yesterday, we made bread [...] Continue reading »
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Real Honest Purists’ Bagels
summary: wild bagels revisited; using zero commercial yeast; recipe for Real Purists’ Wild Bagels; choosing between poppy seeds or sesame seeds; Jane Mason’s starter just keeps getting better; snow again?! The bagel, in its peripatetic history, has moved from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the delis of the United States […] [H]owever, most people’s [...] Continue reading »
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Get the coffee on! We’re baking Nazook! (BBB March 2018)
summary: recipe for Nazook/Gata; shaping fun; dilemma about commercial yeast or wild yeast; making substitutions; a Bread Baking Babes project; Bread Baking Babes (BBB) March 2018: Nazook Easter is approaching, so Kelly (A Messy Kitchen) cleverly chose an Assyrian confection, Nazook (or should it be spelled Nazuk? Or is it Nazouk? Or perhaps it’s Nakhshoon…). [...] Continue reading »
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Sneak Peek at BBB recipe for April 2018
summary: early announcement for the April 2018 BBB recipe; dottiness; Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors; Toasting; We recently went to Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors” exhibit at the AGO in Toronto. At the end of the exhibit, just before entering the Obliteration Room, we were handed a card with dots. By the time we were at the exhibit, [...] Continue reading »
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Dark, isn’t it? …Lariano-style Bread (BBB April 2018)
summary: recipe for Lariano-style bread; where are the BBBabe hosts of yesteryear? … that’s right, I’m hosting again; can’t stop waffling and switching; snow?! in April; origins of sourdough; not much is needed to make bread rise; a Bread Baking Babes (BBB) project; Hey!! Didn’t I just choose the recipe a couple of months ago?! [...] Continue reading »
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Wordless Not-Wednesday: Wholewheat/Buckwheat Tartine Variation
♥ ♥ ♥ We cannot get over the gluten structure! summary: variation on Chad Robertson’s Tartine bread (we added whole wheat, unbleached all-purpose, and buckwheat flours with some wheat berries) risen with Jane Mason natural starter (whole-wheat) bubbling happily since July 2017; look at that gluten structure; a Wordless Not-Wednesday post Even though this bread [...] Continue reading »
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Darkness in April (BBBuddies – errm – BBBuddy, April 2018)
summary: April 2018 Bread Baking Buddy; BBB Lariano-style Bread gallery How could we resist a “chewy tangle of wheat, coffee, dark chocolate, and caramel”? Bread Baking Buddy (BBB): Lariano-style Bread Not all the BBBabes made the BBBs’ April 2018 bread. After all, April IS a very busy and rather taxing month! But those who did [...] Continue reading »
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I’m Running Wild : Red Pepper Coques (BBB May 2018)
summary: recipe for Red Pepper Coques; ice water and instant yeast?? I don’t think so…; solving the dilemma with wild yeast; making substitutions – as usual; information about Bread Baking Babes; Bread Baking Babes (BBB): Red Pepper Coques The snow has gone at last; the forsythia is just at the end of its blooming; the [...] Continue reading »
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Pain au Levain with citrus(ish) and seeds (BBB June 2018)
summary: recipe for Pain au Levain with Lemon Juice and Sunflower Seeds, based on a recipe in “From the Wood-Fired Oven” by Richard Miscovich; taste transformations; justifying disobedience; information about Bread Baking Babes; Bread Baking Babes (BBB): Pain au Levain Making good bread is a matter of controlling variables; there is no one magic ingredient [...] Continue reading »
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Singed Hinnies (BBB July 2018)
summary: recipe for Singing Hinnies; shaping fun; straying from “tried and true”; following instructions; information about Bread Baking Babes; Bread Baking Babes (BBB): Singing Hinnies You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… It has been poisonously hot this month. The horrible heat broke last week. But it has geared up again – just in [...] Continue reading »
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Biscuit Making Traditions – South vs North
summary: Vivian Howard’s biscuits from her cookbook, Deep Run Roots; using lard instead of butter; flat vs lofty; I didn’t learn to make biscuits and elaborate Sunday lunches at my mother’s knee. Nope; growing up, I was busy plotting my grand exit from the middle of nowhere, Deep Run. -Vivian Howard, Deep Run Roots, Introduction [...] Continue reading »
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In the Heat of the Night (BBB August 2018)
summary: recipe for Yeasted Blueberry Coffee Cake; brioche; hot weather baking; information about Bread Baking Babes; At ten minutes to three in the morning, the city of Wells lay inert, hot and stagnant. Most of its eleven thousand people tossed restlessly; the few who couldn’t sleep at all damned the fact that there was no [...] Continue reading »
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Almost Wordless Not-Wednesday: Tartine Bread Fail
If it ain’t broke… N o o o o o $ ~ * * ( ! \ + – mmpfft…. summary: lazy baker syndrome; words to live by: if it ain’t broke…; baking in a cold combo-cooker; an almost Wordless Not-Wednesday post We were inspired by Carol Edwards’s beautiful photo in the FB [...] Continue reading »
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A box grater isn’t just for cheese….
summary: burnt bread doesn’t have to be a fail; so you think your grater is just for cheese…; not to mention that your file and rasp aren’t just for carpentry; how to rescue bread burned on the bottom; When we first started baking bread in our combo cooker and began to REALLY go for that [...] Continue reading »
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