Part of my collection of accidentally deleted pictures. My son Eric came home for a few days so I made sourdough for dinner and sandwiches using the SFBI recipe that I’ve done before with my Tartine starter. I made a regular batard loaf and two smaller sandwich loaves. I let them proof...

Okay, let’s get this out of the way right up front: I screwed up.  I got behind on my bread postings and forgot that I hadn’t dumped the images of loaves 59 to 62 off my camera. Then I went off on a short trip and reformatted the card to start fresh. Damn. No pictures for the next...

Loaf 58 is an experiment in shaping. We wanted good sandwich bread and love the 9 Grain loaf I make, so I wanted to shape it in a loaf pan rather than a banneton or on a couche. The dough is mixed the night before and left to autolyze in the fridge overnight. I used flour from a 10 pound bag...

This is my first loaf in about three weeks, so I just make a simple lean bread using the Reinhart recipe. No big news here – it was easy to get back in the saddle again and make a nice loaf. The texture seemed a bit lighter than I remember it, and it didn’t have quite as much...

The Reinhart ciabatta recipe has become one of my “go to” bread recipes, especially for sandwiches. We had a friend’s son stay with us for a couple days, BBQ and sandwiches were on the menu. I shaped the dough into one large loaf and three smaller sandwich loaves. Nothing...

As an experiment I upped the hydration of the SFBI recipe I use from 68% to 76%. I was interested to see how much difference there was in the crumb – wetter dough is supposed to make a more open crumb. The extra hydration made the dough very difficult to work with – it seemed...

My mom came to visit for a few days and I got to show off to her that I could make really good sourdough! No experiments going on here, I had to nail it. This was made in one day, I fed the starter at 7:40am, used it at 1:15pm after we returned from lunch. The bread went into the over at...

These loaves began as a routine batch of my 9 Grain wheat bread as gifts for friends… except for a few brain freezes along the way. I was making five loaves, so needed to make about 2.5kg of dough (500g being my regular size). Somehow I typed in 1,500g in my bread calculator and blindly...