My favorite bread feed item in a long time
Man fends off a rabid fox with a loaf of sliced bread.
Be sure not to miss the video.
I just posted the roundup of bbd#04 which I hosted. The theme was Bread & Spices. There were 25 bakers that participated with great recipes.
You can see all of them here:
http://bakinghistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/bbd-04-roundup/Here is a Potato Bread with Roasted Onions from Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread. Nice moist crumb, crackly crust and lots of flavor. It's a yeasted dough with a pate fermentee. I shaped it in the fendu style, as recommended by Hamelman. Next time I will initially roast the onions a bit less, as they end up a bit too toasty after the long bake required of a potato bread.
I spent the day making a couple of sourdough focaccias and a miche that is similar to the Thom Leonard Country French recipe in Artisan Baking by Maggie Glezer. The recipe for the focaccias follows.