Hi Folks,

I just recently found the Fresh Loaf (and love it, I'm learning soo much!)... so I dont know if someone has posted this already,  but I just saw that Peter Reinhart is going to be at the COPIA center in Napa on July 20th.  He's going to be covering topics from the new Whole Grain book. 

I just got the BBA book this week... and coincidentally made my first ever truly edible loaves... so I'll probably be going to see what other magic might rub off on me ;-)

I also wanted to say I am so glad I found this community, you're just such a truly nice and helpful group of people- and there's so much great information here!  I love the fact that if I'm not quite understanding something by reading a post, there are usually really great photos and even videos to help me out.

Thanks!

Copia Link:

http://www.copia.org/content/node/2040

Well, now that the World Series is over, I can post...

This weekend, I made the Power Bread from PR's new book. It's the third bread I've made from that book, and I think I like it best. It's dense and heavy, with a definite sweetness and lots of crunchy bits, thanks to sunflower seeds and sesame seeds. It's like a trip back to the whole wheat 70s, if you remember that time...and if you don't, I don't want to hear about it!

My Valentine present, which had been back-ordered, showed up while I was out of town last week: the KAF Whole Grain Baking book.  My, oh my, oh my!  There is some serious baking to do!  Since our grandson is staying with us for part of his spring break and since he loves cinnamon toast for breakfast, I decided to start last evening with the honey oatmeal bread recipe, which has a cinnamon swirl option.  It contains honey and oatmeal, natch, as well as whole wheat flour, unbleached AP flour, butter and other good things.  I didn't have any nonfat dry milk on hand, but the bread do