So what where those 2 mystery pictures?
First was, as many guessed, risen bread dough. My container was too small and the dough mushroomed out, pretty funny. So when I tossed half out I got that stringy air filled dough.
Second pic is a close up of the VIP dinner table at DNA – review to follow soon – which is made out mostly of tiger’s eye stone.
I WON, yes thanks to Duo Dishes I won a cookbook of my choice from a certain listing. Thank you so much for this amazing book Chrystal and Amir. OK so what was the book? And better yet why is it Thursday’s Thingamajig worthy?
This is the book I received: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking and after reading most of it, it truly is REVOLUTIONARY when it comes to making bread.
Fresh baked bread just out of the oven is one of the best things one can smell, taste, admire. Making bread is a royal PAIN in the butt (side note Pain in French is Bread, also a friend’s blog is called breadispain.com lol). The normal testing of the yeast, kneading, raising, kneading, raising is so time consuming most of us cannot be bothered.
This book will teach you how to prepare a bunch of bread good for the next 2 weeks with very little effort. And it WORKS. I swear 10 min of active work day one preparing the dough…raising time and storage not counted. It can be raised and stored for up to 2 weeks. When you want to bake a bread just take the amount of dough you need, make a ball, let it raise 40 min and cook 20 min. The actual working time for this bread is really 5 min worth of your active time.
It really works! This book will teach you the basic master recipe and then how to make variations such as fun shapes, savory recipes and sweet ones. I won’t give you thr recipe because you really should get the book. If you bake GET THE BOOK lol. You won’t regret it. But I will do a show and tell of my first attempts.
Toss all ingredients in a bowl just till well mixed. NO KNEADING. In large container let rise 2 hours. Store in a non airtight container. Basic recipe if 4 bread and you have up to 14 days to bake them.
Cut a 1/4 of dough and dust a bit. Shape as indicated.
Let rise on a sheet sprinkled with cornmeal 40 min. Preheat oven after 20 min.
Bread baking try no 1
Bread baking try no 2
Tastings: Best damn breads I have ever made from scratch in my life. So worth it. I totally recommend the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking Book.
I will absolutely try it out. Thanks for mentioning about the book. I’ll go ahead and buy it!
Good ideas.
Thanks you all for the comments.
Damn, forgot to get the butter out 😉
Wow, you’re a bread maker! They look perfect! Now, where’s the butter dish? 🙂
I may have to check this out! I am a carboholic so this could be dangerous for me lol. I’ve never made bread dough before, but I am thinking about trying my hand at challah for rosh hashanah this year…. we’ll see how that turns out 🙂
Where did you buy the book?
For the best breads I ever made, I used a combo of regular bread flour and durum flour (like for pasta) with barley malt as a sweetener/yeast food, and a touch of olive oil. Usually shaped it into an oval loaf. I was aiming for Italian-style.
Beautiful bread! Well done! I may have to add Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day to my collection.
Funny mishap with the first batch. 🙂 Bread making seems intimidating at the start, but then you see how easy it can be. Especially with that book. Now you can have bread all the time!
Beautiful bread loaves! Looking forward to your review of DNA restaurant!
bread–bread is as plain as the sunset!
I miss bread! Congrats on winning!
Nothing beats bread out of the oven!