Day 0 Like many of my pastry adventures, this one started with an episode of the Great British Bakeoff. It was specifically noted that “making strudel pastry is incredibly time consuming and difficult and even the experts just buy it from the store.” Well. I just knew I had to give it a shot.
Day 0 | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Sourdough, the most frustrating of breads. It’s so simple – just flour, water, and salt. But why then does my kitchen look like a sourdough massacre war zone after I bake a loaf of bread?
Day 0 | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 My first attempt at baking croissants was an absolute fail, though that certainly didn’t stop me from eating the whole batch. For my second attempt, I incorporated key learnings from my first batch, and this time managed to produce a halfway decent batch. Were they perfect? No! But …
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Day 0 | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 My bread fascination began with a book named Sourdough. It’s not a book about how to bake the most amazing sourdough. It is a book about a depressed engineer who lives in San Francisco and begins baking sourdough as a hobby. [spoiler alert] the …
Day 0 | Day 1 | Day 2 (I know croissants are technically pastry not bread, but it’s yeasted, so close enough) Croissants have been on my to-bake list every since I became hooked to the Great British Baking Show. These wonderful, genius homebakers could make towering cakes and perfect loaves of bread but for the …
Day 0 | Day 1 Okay everyone we’re here to answer the real question: Can you be lazy and still make good bread? Or another variation of that question: Can you be incredibly busy with very little time to invest in making bread and still make good bread? The answer is yes. Does it taste …
After producing a semi-successful loaf of Focaccia, next up was French baguettes. I ate the most heavenly baguettes when I visited Paris earlier this year, and honestly I still dream about those perfect, crispy crusts and soft, fluffy insides. I just knew I had to give a try and baking my own, and honestly it …