January 31, 2010 - 8:41am
First Ciabatta
I'm like most people, I LOVE homemade bread straight out of the oven with real butter. I like it with apple butter, or jelly. I like it plain... Its just so good and the smell is the best part.
I have been facinated with bread making and artisian, rustic types of bread for a good long time. I think I have 15 or more bread books. It fascinates me!
Last week I finally decided to try and make some rustic bread... I mixed up a poolish on Thursday. Yesterday I made bread!
Here is a picture of my Ciabatta. I still have a long way to go on properly shaping my loaves, but they sure tasted good!
Here is a shot of the inside...
I look forward to your comments!
THANKS!
Tom
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I guess this probably should have gone under the Artisian section.... hopefully this is okay. Still learning my way around the forum.
Tom
And it's asking me for a password when I hit refresh. Strange.
LOL, I'm curious to see improperly shaped ciabatta. I think the name itself indicates that it's a rather shapeless bread!
Sorry, I'll try and figure out how to host the pics and then post them. I tried hosting them on my web site, but it didn't work.
I think I got the hosting fixed.
Tom
Nice job! Bread is a miracle in so many ways!
I've been thinking about trying the Cibatta recipe in BBA, you may have inspired me to start a poolish for it tonight!