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I've been experimenting a bit with rye lately and the first thing I learned is that it has this weird quality that makes the dough very extensible, but not very elastic, right? So I was thinking to myself, where, oh where could I use that specific quality? And the first answer that came to my mind was Pizza! (The second idea is laminated dough, but I haven't had the chance to try it, I wonder if anyone has). 

I'm going to follow in @joshfoxbreadco (Golgi70's) footsteps with my own Farmer's Market blog! I own Amber Artisan Bread, a cottage food operation located in Prosser, Washington.

After waiting an agonizing 4 months to get through the layers of beurocracy, I finally have my permit and am selling!

This week, I sold $100 worth of bread in 2 hours at my 8,000 head town's farmer's market.

Since I can only take individually approved items, I decided on only a few items: Country Levain, Wholewheat Levain, and Baguettes. Next week I'm going to do 100% Rye as well.

I had some time constraints yesterday and still wanted to ensure that I’d be able to bake some Bouabsa Baguettes this morning.  I had just enough time in the early morning to mix the flour and water, but then had to place the goop on hold until I could return a few hours later to continue mixing the dough.

Here is the 3rd version of this bread.   Even though none of them have been exactly the same they were close and the main goal was to se if not aging home milled flour for at least 3 weeks would have an adverse effect on the bread if not used within 1 day of milling.

Piergiorgio Giorilli is a baker in a league of his own. His years of experience and effortless skills speak volumes. He is a true master! I have known of Giorilli for sometime now, yet I haven’t until now made a panettone in accordance with his methods and formula.

    This recipe is adapted from the book "Inside the Jewish Bakery" by Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg.  The original recipe is a straight dough made with yeast and I changed it up to use a white sourdough starter.

Bialys are mainly a New York kind of thing, and if you have never had one you owe it to yourself to bake some and you will never look back.

Most of the breads I bake need to rest 1 to 2 hours before eating, but with these you can feel free to slather on some butter or cream cheese when they just come out of the oven.

Good Evening my fellow baker:

I dried my active sourdough starter and save it in a food save bottle before my trip. Now after about one month and two weeks away , I am trying to reactivated it.

I am now on the 2nd day of feeding(with mixture of rye and whole wheat flour, and at 100% hydration) my starter seemed to bubble nicely but when I tasted it, it is not sour! My first liquid I used in feeding it was fresh pineapple juice but now after the 3rd feeding in two days, I used water. 

Is my starter ready to be use or do I need to wait until it  is sour?

These buns are made with the same flour, YW levain and SD levain as tomorrow’s Version 3 of the apricot, seed and nut bread without the fruit, nut and seed add ins and using milk for the dough liquid, an egg and some butter.

It came in at 45% whole grains and 80% hydration.  The 4 hamburger and 4 sausage buns were egg washed twice with the poppy and sesame seed sprinkled on in between the two.

The No Stir Sourdough Starter

This last week I started a vigorous rye starter by simply pouring water over rye flour and leaving it alone, covering it.  No stir, no mixing, just stand alone at 75°F and watch.  

This time I want to avoid, skip over the stinky bacterial population growth in the starter so I'm pouring sauerkraut juice over flour to see what happens.  Same 74°F to 75°F  temperature.    

Instructions: