Photo Contest: Harvest Season

WOW!

That photo there is a prize winner Floydm.

Homegrown Tomatoes and Basil.

Here's sort of a corny set-up photo, but I AM proud of myself this year for doing a better job of preserving my "bounty" this season :) Everythiing here was grown in our yard--except for a few ingredients in the bread and jellies...

Just in the mood to bake baguettes today, and they go with everything!

Okay that worked!

Here's a not-so-good photo, but it's a fun one. This is most of a day's baking in my mud oven earlier this summer. I made ciabatta and rosemary-olive bread, and my friend brought over french bread dough. Our apples were just ripe, and I promised BF if he peeled, I'd make a pie too!

This was my third bake in the oven--we just made it this spring--and I managed to do all of these (plus what I sent home with the friend) on one firing! I think it was about four batches of bread, and then the pie baked in about an hour....

First off, loved your contribution, made me want to go out and get some apples and do some pies and tarts.... miss the days of living back east when the apples were at all the stands along the road and the cider fresh.  Your breads look great and I hope to get that computer add-on one day that allows smell and taste..... :)

Question?????

I notice in your photo the use of a lined basket for your bread, may I ask where you found that particular style for French bread?  I have several similar ones for baking round loaves of different sizes but haven't located ones for Baguettes.  Any help would be appreciated.

 Thanks

Bob

Yeah, we just bought fresh cider today!

Well, the lined basket was a gift from a friend in the antique business--I think it is actually from France, but I'm not positive. It was a very cool gift. She also got me the round bread cutting board in the photo :)

It actually is a little long and unwieldy. Due to it's size and age, I usually line it with a few linens and put either two or three loaves in it--and then I flip them out with help from the liner fabric.

I think I've seen long baskets similar to this in stores such as cost plus or Pier 1.... if that helps. As long as you have the shape and you can line it with something, it doesn't matter too much what it's made out of. Hope this helps!

The recipe is here.

All my breads are in my Blog.

I think my entry is in the gallery!

Thanks Floyd for sorting my post out!

Thanks Breadnerd for compliments!

I was pleased with the loaf - amazing oven spring this time.  I find this recipe does do better if unscored.

The cake is a fine polenta (cornmeal) and yoghurt cake with tayberries (frozen earlier in the summer) and Bolero Tuscan eating apples, both from the garden.

Please move my harvest entry to this page - I could not find a way to get here.

Thanks!

Teresa

This is too much.....I can't stand this they look soooooo gooood to eat!!!  I'm baking my own batch yum yum yum.