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From Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day

Lucy was back on her Meta Verse 2.0 project.  Her update is that instead of 2040 as the date we will be able to migrate our brains into the cloud, so we can live forever any way we want, has been moved back to 2050.  This is terrible news.

Charred corn is one of the foods that I look forward to the most as summer approaches. I am craving corn fritters and Thai sweet chili sauce goes perfectly with them, why not combine the two in this sourdough?

Thai Sweet & Spicy Tomato Corn Sourdough

Dough flour:

150g      50%       Freshly mille whole spelt flour

franbaker and I are going to be baking the same recipes and comparing the results. My bake yesterday is the first of our cooperative bakes. We both attempted PiPs' "Home with Bread/Fighting Gravity" recipe. I am looking forward to see Fran's post about her bake day results.

franbaker's post about her bake:

100% WW Cooperative Baking with Texasbakerdad

Recipe (thank you PiPs!):

Many people wanted to get details how to make the bread with translucent alveoli walls which I have published in the community bake 50% wholewheat thread. So I promised to make notes about the process. However, this bread was not made with sourdough starter but rather with tomato and basil yeast water.

For those who don't like to read too much here are the major differences to what most of people usually do:

But National Sushi Day is November 1st!

Here is Dabrownman's Swordfish Nigiri - Nigiri is traditionally served 2 identical at a time.

And here is Dabrownman breaking the rule and serving 6 - 3 of each at a time with some Salmon Nigiri but there were 3 of us so we got 2 each if that counts.  I have never seen bread of any kind served with sushi of any kind

I loved all the posts on the community bake and decided to join in on the fun with a few adaptations of course! ?Here is my version:

Diastatic Malt

4 Days before:

I was craving banana bread immediately after reading Dabrownman’s banana bread post so I came up with my own version. 

Parmesan Crusted Banana Bread Roll with Honey Goat Cheese Filling

For the bread:

30g       54.5%      Barley flour

25g       45.5%      Buckwheat flour

200g   363.6%      Mashed ananas

These actually turned out ok ! Dealing with a 80 degree kitchen does not help in the least - I usually do these when it's closer to 68-70F which affords a lot more time to work the dough and butter. Strategy today was to employ some freezer time and just hustle. By the time shaping came around dough is pretty soft and very hard to manage. Shaved off a few grams of yeast and final proof for only one hour as opposed to 1.5-2 - it is possible !

I was tempted for a long time to make a bred with dark red wine which we produce in Slovenia. This bread is my second attempt to make this kind of bread.

Here are the instructions for those who would like to make bread with red wine:

1.) Take a recipe for the bread you think you would like to "convert" to wine bread. No changes in the procedure.