Ok. The truth is that I don't have much to say about the bread I baked today. I just want to post this picture:
All right - it is a Pain au Levain with around 30% whole durum. Tastes good.
That's all I have to say.
We have 2 Costco conveniently located in different sites of the city I live in. We also have many of the others but Costco is always my best choice for grossary. I bought this cooking book at Costco 4 years ago and have been practicing the recipes it offers. And as it says I found it incredibly easy to follow. Rustic Tuscany Bread from the cooking book has been the most facinating piece to me. I did it quite often and I did it kind of my own special version. It looks gorgeous and tastes fantastic.
Pissaladiere is a sort of pizza's distant cousin, originated in Province, Southern France, said to have been brought to the region by Romans. Not sure if the Romans had a pizzaria back home in those days :p, but it was probably their flat hearth breads Romans used to make that gave the inspirations to the locals.....though I have read one or two articles by patriatic French who claimed it's their pissaladiere that gave the inspiration to the Romans for making pizza. :D
It's been really few years I didn't show up here. Busy but never stopped baking. Focaccia is one of the breads I've baked almost every 2~3 days in the last 3 weeks. It's simple and goes well with about every thing I put on my dinning table and, most of all, my family and my friends love it. The dough I use for focaccia is pretty much similar to regular pizza dough. I actually us it for pizza as well.
After a long time being intrigued by artisan bread baking, I finally decided to give it a go. I think I got it from my father, but I usually dive in head first and think "go big or go home."
