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I nearly missed out that you guys are celebrating thanksgiving today. So for this occasion, and also because I had to bake something for the bread baking day, organized by www.kochtopf.me, here is my focaccia that we had today. A perfect autumn food that went well with our tomato soup tonight. 

The recipe features whey, an overnight fermentation and some beautiful olives and sun dried tomatoes with some Grand Padano on top. Delicious stuff that focaccia i have to say. Enjoy your festival :)

We really love this simple recipe which is equal parts sourdough starter and flour (I did 1 cup to make a small pizza, 1-1/2 for larger), tablespoon of olive oil, and teaspoon of salt.  Let it sit for 30 minutes and then roll it out very thin. Just bake it on a pizza stone at 500 degrees for four minutes or so, take it out and coat with olive oil to seal, and then add your ingredients.  Bake it for 5 or so more minutes, and it's done.  Fantastic.  We really enjoyed it.

Two more Christmas pudding reviews on my blog here, I have another 10 (at least) to get through!!

The practical classes have finally commenced after a 3 week halt due re-location. We have had the cold desserts last weekend, featuring popular desserts such as Pana Cotta, fruit flavored cold soufflés, and Mousses, in addition to crepes, fruit fritters, and rice pudding.  Most desserts featured below contain gelatine to set them. It goes without saying that everything was exceptionally delicious! We have still few classes left for cold desserts then we’ll be off to hot desserts and later chocolate.

Hello everyone,

I again baked this Forkish style, proofing seam down and baking seam up with a slash. It looks like the well sealed seam bloomed open.

Formula wise, this was identical to my last bake:

300g total flour, using strong bread flour and 10% durham semolina

231g water

8g coarse sea salt

1Tbs EVOO

I am still trying to figure out how to post multiple photos on my blog, so I am posting this one after my initial blog on this bread.  I think it came out OK, but I would have liked a little more height.  Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.  I use this recipe below for the classic sourdough, which I love. 

http://breadmakingblog.breadexperience.com/2012/02/classic-sourdough-in-la-cloche.html

So, only for you, I was making yet another Wasabi onion bread - without Wasabi :). Only thing that's not so nice is that the bread went a bit flat on my while scoring it.

I have to admit that I also added a cooking piece with barley grains to keep the bread nice and moist AND I tried another stencil design on my bread. Still not perfect I have to admit, but slowly getting there. Here is the bread in all it's "beauty".

Hello fellow fresh loafers.  Hope you are all doing well, and I wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving in advance if you are in the States!  Anyway, sorry for the long absence from TFL.  I have been busy with changes in my life and have not had much time to bake or blog about it until about now.  I have been pondering some things about bread baking which I will not reveal as of yet, but in my absence my wife and I had done the Fast Metabolism Diet, which basically says that you cannot eat the following foods for 28 days: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, dairy, wheat, soy,

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whats the best Christmas pudding of them all?

I am dedicating myself to sampling a whole range of Christmas puddings from all the major supermarkets (UK based) to choose the best one - I am gonna do all the hard work, so you don't have to - see how good I am? :)

First review is up on my blog here