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inspired byFarina http://www.farine-mc.com/2012/08/apple-blueberry-spelt-bread-with-chia.html

my version of this bread. out of spelt flour at that moment. replaced with organic whole wheat flour. friend gave me a handful of beautiful blue pea flower from her garden. this flower is popular among our locals making nyonya kueh..

While traveling for business the last two weeks in China, as usual I read my favorite website, www.thefreshloaf.com and couldn't wait to get home to try some new recipes.  One of the recipes I loved was Varda's Pugliese Revisited.    The

It has been a nail biting 3 days! LOL
I know but today on day 4 The Bubbles came and I was happy!
I am following the starter suggested here and it has worked as described.
I have just fed the starter and continue on my path!

I fed my starter with my whey from kefir. I have been making a lot of kefir cheese lately ..we use it to fill crepes and make Mexican dishes and also lasagna. It is so yum but I have a LOT of whey. The starter was very happy . I then used the whey to replace the water in 3 different formulas. I have never made an olive loaf. I looked around on TFL and found mebake's take on Hammelman's formula in Bread. I used the whey and added extra as did mebake . I also used it in my More Sour Norwich formula.

Made a couple small loaves with fresh Oregano and one Za for lunch. I also included some dinner shots for fun.

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We broke bread and the rules last night. I know we were meant to let this kind of bread rest for 12-24 hrs before cutting, but we wanted something to go with the soup and it was just sitting there on the cutting board, calling to us. So this is one of those times when I didn't get a chance to take a picture before quite a bit of the loaf was devoured. The slightly sweet, wheaty taste of the Great River Milling "bread" flour(really closer to a high extraction type of flour, the germ is retained and 80%of the bran sifted out) goes well with the bittersweet flavor of the green tea powder.

I am fairly new to bread making. I started six months ago because shop bought bread makes me ill and now I've ended up selling bread to a local cafe for breakfast and to go with their soups. I particularly like sourdough and banana and walnut has gone down a treat. I love making up new flavour combinations and generally having fun with dough. I'm also addicted to pizza and creating the ultimate thin and crispy pizza dough.

since the Hokkaido milk loaf is such a hot topic thought i share my version. baked this for a friend who requested for a soft sourdough bread. of course with the help of txfarmer formula and clear instruction! 

handmade.. had good workout on the intensive kneading part to stage 3!! 

had a slice, amazingly soft, fragrant and yum :)

note: not very good at rolling the dough yet!

evon

Ok, I bought I starter..got it going..no problem after three days...the whole things went flat and running and full of watery stuff on the surface, smells like cheese, (which I think isn't good), can I rescue it?

I think it may have been too hot in the hotwater cupboard, and maybe I should have put it somewhere else?  

Quelle Disaste!

Naomi