Dough!
Jeez. It's been about 6 months since I last posted. I suck. Anyway, I am just winding up a three week holiday vacation (hell yeah!) I spent a lot of it annoying my family by tying up the kitchen making breads. I've always enjoyed making bread, but hadn't really learned to do it 'right'. I think I've made some breakthroughs, though!
The thing I've been enjoying most is playing with sourdough. I started my own natural starter here shortly after Thanksgiving, and it has been enlightening. I've fed it different flours (bread and AP white, whole wheat, whole grain rye, and spelt), run it through different fermentation times and temps, and dumped loaf after loaf on friends and family members. My apologies if I gave you anything unpleasant! :P
On New Year's Eve, I made a couple of experimental batches inspired by a trip to the Davis Food Co-op, including this wheat sourdough where I replaced a lot of the liquid with organic veggies. I dumped a 14.5oz can of Muir Glen diced tomatoes, a finely grated carrot, and some fresh rosemary into a whole wheat preferment and did my thing.
Haha. It's like getting a cup of veggie soup in every slice. It's strong enough in taste with all the veggies (it's really about 1/3 veggies! by weight!), whole wheat, and sourdough that Rima and Hazel don't like it. I'll have to find something to do with it... I like it with cream cheese. It might make a good pizza-toast or something?
Happy new year, everyone!
Posted at 11:20AM Jan 02, 2009 by raydoo in FoodnDrink | Comments[1]
Nice. I bet that veggie bread would be good for dipping in soup! Have you made any potato bread, yet -- it's one of my favorites.
Posted by E-Doo on January 10, 2009 at 09:25 AM PST #