No, not fallen. Never-risen. I should have known better than to trumpet the satisfaction my bread-making gives me; yesterday’s experiment was a colossal failure. Bad inventory management left me without any white bread flour and an excess of yummy durum flour. I don’t normally bake 100% durum anyt...

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Two round loaves of white sourdough bread

These two loaves came out of the oven yesterday about an hour before lunchtime. Sometimes, I just want a plain, white bread; no seeds or other goodies, no interesting flour mix, no glaze. That’s what I got, and it provides a focus for a post inspired by GOOD’s Food for Thinkers series. That smor...

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Three loaves of bread

Invited to a New Year’s Eve party, and told to bring something to eat, no hesitation: breads. Left to right, they are black pepper rye from Dan Lepard, 50% durum:manitoba sourdough, and peanut chilli, a new one from Dan Lepard.

Absolutely no hesitation in making this the first post of 2011 e...

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A lot of my loaves are raised with natural leavens, rather than store-bought yeast.

There’s a lot one could say about natural yeasts, wild yeasts, sourdough starters, levain, leaven, what have you. I'm not going to say much. You can read elsewhere about how a good natural leaven is a symbiotic m...

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A curl of butter on the end of a knife

I don't really miss it, and yet ...

Consider butter.