Adding Rye now

Adding Rye now

(2013-09-27) New Book purchase: Jeffrey Hammelman’s Bread Whereas Peter Reinhart’s Bread Baker’s Apprentice was an excellent primer to explain the 12-stage process of bread making,…

First Good Rise

First Good Rise

(2013-08-10) Good to get back to baking sourdough bread. The results from this bake were not ideal, but much progress was made on the bread…

My First Batard

My First Batard

(2013-07-10) So far in my bread baking journey, I successfully created a wild yeast starter culture from just flour and water, and followed up with…

My First Miche

My First Miche

(2013-06-01) The first sourdough bread that I decided to make wth my homemade starter was not the simplest – I decided to try to make…

My First Starter

My First Starter

(21-May-2013) My first attempt at baking bread was a failure– the baguette looked decent enough, but was completely inedible. That first experience left me underwhelmed…

Humble Beginnings

Humble Beginnings

(14-May-2013) My wife loves the city of Paris, France.We both lived in Paris for 5 years or so, so I started to get in thee…