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San Francisco Baking Institute – Artisan Bread – Day Five!
It’s been a wonderful week but it must come to an end. Today is my last day at SFBI‘s Artisan 1 Bread class, and I must say.. I’ve learned a ton! I can’t wait to go home and apply everything that I’ve learned, not to mention actually using my at-home equipment, which is so different [...]
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San Francisco Baking Institute – Artisan Bread – Day Four!
Finally something besides baguettes! Day 4 at SFBI‘s Artisan I bread class was such a great (and busy!) day. The last three days had been primarily spent learning about bread and applying that knowledge to our constant – the baguette. The mixing methods, different flours, shaping… all the baguette. Believe me, I loved the baguette, [...]
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San Francisco Baking Institute – Artisan Bread – Day Three!
I’m finally able to write about day three and on! I visited family on the evenings of class day #3 and #4, and was out too late to blog! Then, after day #5, I flew out (red eye!) and the airport didn’t have free wi-fi, or my laptop couldn’t find it. The focus of day [...]
San Francisco Baking Institute – Artisan Bread – Day Two!
It’s day two at SFBI and things are going very well! Today we had about an hour’s worth of lecture and spent the majority day in the kitchen baking up 15 baguettes per person. That’s a lot of white flour! The point of today was to really learn about the intricacies of the three different [...]
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San Francisco Baking Institute – Artisan Bread – Day One!
Because my husband is definitely the most fabulous man on the face of the earth, he decided to get me an Artisan bread class for my birthday. Not only did he set up the class, but he arranged my flight with his extra miles, and arranged my hotel stay with his redemption points as well. [...]
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100% Whole Grain Naan Bread
It’s time for Bread Baking Day #7, hosted by Petra of Chili und Ciabatta. This month’s theme is flatbreads! The only real rule was that pizza was not to be a contender. I was thinking about my favorite flatbreads, and the one that came to mind as a favorite was Naan bread. Naan is a [...]
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Sugar High Friday!
I’ve never made a pie. So I was shakin’ in my boots when I saw that my first Sugar High Friday challenge would be “The Pie of my Dreams”. Since I’m not a major pie fan, and I’ve never made one, I sat for a while thinking of what dear pie would ever ‘enter’ my [...]
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