Old Will Knot delivered quickly! The scales are checked out and ready for class! It-ll be so good to have enough scales and to not have to work around the idiosyncrasies of some of the more battered and abused scales.
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I just ordered three new MyWeigh KD-7000 scales. We’ve had a KD-7000 for a while, and that was the scale all the students wanted to use. We’re counting the days until they get here!
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Sunday, February 14, 2010 – Valentines day and a discovery! – Long time site visitors, and those who are obsessive about looking at every page here (thank you!) know I really liked using Saran Wrap’s “Quick Covers” to protect dough and I talked about how the large ones were big enough to cover almost any
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The class had as many students as we can presently handle comfortably, so we had a kitchen full of activity and joy. We made three great savory breads, and for lunch made Italian Appetizer Bread. The Italian Appetizer Bread recipe was inspired by a recipe of the same name that Land-o-Lakes Butter made available. We
Thursday, June 26, 2008 – And on the other hand, you have more fingers. I’ve been reading Peter Reinhart’s most recent book, “Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor.” It is, as you’d expect from Mr. Reinhart, a beautiful book with some great recipes. I’ve enjoyed all the breads I’ve made from the book, and
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Sunday May 27, 2007 A Camp Bread 2007 Table of Contents A few people have asked for a concise index or table of contents to the Camp Bread 2007 posts. OK, here you go – The Trip to Camp Bread Camp Bread, Day 0 Camp Bread, Day 1 – Mike Pontificates (yeah, so what’s new?),
Saturday May 26, 2007 Some more reflections on Camp Bread I never finished the blog entries for May 23, 22, and 21. I’m updating them today, and adding some pictures to the blog. I hope you will enjoy it. Expect more changes over the next few days. First a few ironic observations about the hotel
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Wednesday May 23, 2007 The Road Home Again As I type this, I am sitting in the San Francisco airport and realizing I haven’t updated the blog for a number of days. The entries below were all written on the 23rd. To put it simply, by the time I got back to the hotel room,
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Tuesday May 22, 2007 – Camp Bread – Day 3 More time with the rye guy, and the new team is selected! The big surprise of the day was that Jeff Hamelman isn’t German. Sure, he is of German extraction, but he isn’t German. He’s spent time there, he’s learned about rye there, but, he
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Monday May 21, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 2 You and your oven, and Mike meets the rye guy I was curious about the breakfast the Embassy suites served, and I really wanted to have breakfast with Beth, my better half. So, I had an omelette at the Embassy Suites and then headed off to
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Sunday May 20, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 1 Mike Pontificates (yeah, so what’s new?), Mike Meets ….. everybody! The day started with breakfast. Every day, the campers eat breakfast and lunch together. Sunday, like most days, the breakfast was catered by Boudin Bakery. They served some excellent pastries, and I had far more pastries, and far less
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Saturday May 19, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 0 Day zero? Yeah, it was the last setup day and the day the instructors were given their orientation classes. Beth and I got up bright and early and moved from the Homewood Suites to the Embassy Suites. The move wasn’t all that suite. We took the
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