I was given some great new Italian Sausage bu a new local vendor, so a great excuse to make Peter Reinhart's Casatiello fron the BBA book. Really a nice change. It was wonderful.

Here is some crumb detail

Related blog post here.

Bread with Brown Leather

:-Paul

Made my 1st no-knead bread today. Wow. I had low expectations, but I love it. I let it rise for 20 Hrs plus 2 Hrs more after the fold.

It came out great (for me) and tastes wonderful. Nice crisp crust highlighted with a little cornmeal. I'll be doing this one for awhile. I'm hooked. Dave

Well, this was my 1st try at the buttermilk cluster. Also my 1st "no bread machine bread". Tasted good, but didn't rise very well so they were a little dense. I used some vital wheat gluten and an old yeast.

My 2nd try came out much better. A new yeast and no additive. I sliced a bun up and toasted it this morning. Now that was good. I started a batch of no-knead bread last night and it should be ready for the oven as I type this. Wish me luck. Dave.

We're hosting the neighbors for a picnic on Memorial day, so I threw together a batch of honey whole wheat burger & brat rolls, and a couple of loaves of sandwich Italian (that's what I call it when I bake Italian in loaf pans).

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday weekend, and take a moment to remember those who made our freedon possible.

Joe

Just baked these two loaves.  They looked and weighed the same before going into the oven.  Once the oven spring began I could tell one was springing up a lot more than the other.  They were placed in the oven, the exactly position that you see in the picture.  What happened then?  They are still warm so can't slice them just yet.  I weighed them again, the large one weighed 1 lb. 6.8 oz while the smaller one weighed 1 lb. 6.9 oz.  I wonder if I am going to see a big hole in the large loaf. 

I got a new camera and just had to play around with it! No more grainy pictures of my beautiful loaves. No more tiny, miniscule photos. No way! With my new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 with 10MP and 18X zoom I can now go poster-size to 180 dpi. And really, shouldn't there be more posters of bread?

I've gotten so excited about bread, and my new camera, that I decided to start my own blog. You can find a blog entry with step-by-step photos at http://theyeasticoulddo.net/2009/05/21/anadama-bread/

I've been baking baguettes really close to the top of the oven, I didn't move the stone for boules.  oops.

They look like they're stuck to the top element.

Close one, they only ended up with a brand mark on the top - kind of classy.  Unfortnately in the melee I got a similar one on my wrist.

I got some white bags from Amazon and use them for gift bags after running them through an inkjet printer.

:-Paul

It was fun to take some baguettes out and picture them next to a newly planted tomato plant.  Being spring and all...

Sandwiches down the road.

:-Paul