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Sourdough Pros

For the past year I have had the pleasure to spend 15 hrs straight each week in the lovely kitchen of the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts assisting Eduardo Morrell in the production of his naturally leavened breads, which are sold primarily at the Berkeley Farmer’s Markets as “Morrell’s Bread”. The video below was [...]

Rolling in dough

Over the past few months I’ve changed my relationship with these sourdough beasties I’ve befriended to leaven and flavor my baked goods. I’ve both expanded the amount and variety of goods that I can make with them and I’ve let the little things be warm and active for longer periods. That is to say by [...]

More on bread and starter

I’ve now made my third multi-grain sourdough bread, from here. For those adventurous souls who plan to embark on this three-day bread I have some thoughts. My amateur advice may not be worth much, but something I always find frustrating about recipes is that they don’t tell you about the mistakes. ( Though Breadtopia has [...]

sea captain sourdough waffle barbeque

 
We happened to be graced with an extraordinary waffle iron. So extraordinary that there is no room for it in our kitchen- which would, like the waffles made this morning, do well out to sea, being just about boat sized. The means that the waffle iron lives outside, and waffles are made on the porch- [...]

Sunny Day Dutch Oven Bread

My experience with so called “no-knead bread”, the article I got the recipe from, and your subsequent experience baking this bread is like an endless mirrors in mirrors of people wanting to make perfect “artisan bread” and then, yes, doing it in their own kitchen. It’s like some kind of carnival promise really coming true.
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