Posts Tagged artisan

As I mentioned previously I am taking part in the BLT from scratch

Day 2 of starter (not looking so good yet)

challenge, and for that I decided to make my own wild yeast bread for the BLT. I am now on the 5th day of my sourdough starter and its looking and smelling great. In the beginning it wasn’t going so well so I played around a bit and think I figured it out. I got the original directions for The Fresh Loaf and have only made some minor changes of the technique.

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Recently I’ve been putting a lot of concentration on mastering my Artisan bread making skills. In the past I have made a lot of bread but never really took that much time to really craft it.

I am definitely not a master bread maker, and I do not have thousands of dollars worth of equipment to make it with. If you treat bread making like an art you will be able to succeed with any oven, in any kitchen.

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Nothing beats fresh bread

It has been a busy couple of weeks and this has been affecting my creativity in the kitchen, so I decided why not try making an artisan bread. I am mostly sticking to a recipe I found on the Fresh Loaf for a Pain de Provence, of course there are some changes based on what I actually had available in my stock of ingredients. This recipe takes about 1 hour of prep time and 5-6 hours of rise time not including the 16 hours you have to rest the poolish.

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