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After a couple of really good attempts to recreate a Brooklyn style pizza, I had a couple of disasters. Trying to slide a 16" dough disk onto a 16" steel proved to need more precision than I could muster.  I was ready to quit, when my wife reminded me how good the pies were before I got the steel. On her advice I combined the two methods. Pizza screen on the steel.

It has been a while since dough.doc posted the Larraburu process for making their famous San Francisco SD bread from the late 60’s and early 70’s.  It really was great bread made by the thousands of loaves.  There were a couple, three things that hit me as being strange after reading the process.

Hi guys,

I' m a cook in Italy, and getting a break,  I would improve my passion for bread alone in my home.

Many times for the oven I ve got (an old gas one without vent) I felt limited and frustrated, for problem such as keeping the vapour initially  and the size of the chamber, making only one or two loaves a time, etc.. 

I live in italy and solutions for home baker such as Rofco ovens are not available.

Crisp and flaky sesame pockets. I have wanted to try my hand at these for a while. I don't think I had the best recipe and had to improvise a bit.

They came out ok and we enjoyed the nutty taste. And I now have a sesame coated kitchen. 

More recipes I found interesting:

https://food52.com/recipes/26083-explosively-layered-sesame-shao-bing

This is a pretty bold bake on my Hamelman 50% WW multigrain with freshly home milled kamut in place of WW.  I sifted and used the hard bits in the levain.  My hot soaker was a mix of durum, toasted old bread crumbs from my last batch, brown flax (left whole for a change), mixed rolled grains, and my faux red rye malt.  The cold final rise was about 18 hours.  I was happy that the timing worked for me to give the less bold loaf to my mother for her 81st birthday.  We were both pleased with the taste.

Multigrain, seeded bread - using up end of bag of wholemeal flour, hence 84g wholemeal, 75g dark rye, 300g white bead flour, with 3malt sunflower seed flour to make up to 800g, 400g 50% starter, 650g water. Autolysed for just under an hour, 20g salt added and dough developed. 150g mixed ‘seeds’ added towards end of slap and folds (cut malted rye grains, pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, linseed,poppy), then 3 sets of stretch and folds over next hour and a half, as dough seemed slacker than I was expected. In total, 4 hours of bulk at room temp (probably about 66-68 as heating not on initially).

I bought some "Country Wild Rice" at Whole Foods a few weeks ago and wanted to use some of the leftover cooked rice in a bread.  The rice is a combo of brown, whole grain Wehani, and whole grain black Japonica and is very tasty all by itself.

I had some Guinness left over from the corned beef my wife made in the Instant Pot a few weeks ago and I thought some fresh milled barley flour would go perfect with this combination.

Just over one year ago, I made the journey from Belgrade, Montana to Madrid, Spain with my bakery trailer, truck and all of my other household goodies.

During the past year as I wait, wait, wait, and wait some more, I've been sorting through the red tape and keeping myself busy through baking, teaching, and also working construction.

Through my previous European tours, I had made some very nice friendships in Moscow, Prague and the Netherlands.  Recently I had the opportunity to re-visit them.

For whatever reason I have far too many half eaten bags of oats lying around my pantry.  So this week I baked a version of Sarah Owens' honey spelt oat bread - without the spelt.  As has been a theme of late for many of us, Trevor Wilson was the inspiration. Trevor has been posting on Instagram some great fluffy-crumb pastry flour breads. I didn't have any pastry flour to use so I improvised with some all-purpose, whole wheat and bread flours. I thought using an all-purpose flour with it's lower protein content would be a reasonable substitute for pastry flour.