I made bread by hand yesterday. Videos of bakers folding bread dough inspired me to skip the mixer and try the slap and fold. It worked so well I will be applying this technique to hair combing, sandwich making, good…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Best. Weekend. Ever.
Hard labor outside then swimming in the pool with Baby Harbat. Date night on Saturday with my wife for the best burger I’ve ever had (shout out to Jayne’s Gastro Pub) followed by a hand-holding walk in the warm…
I know that I don’t know that I know. You know?
The more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know. I’m finding online many bulletin boards and tutorials devoted to artisan bread making. Some of them are geared towards amateurs, and the Cook’s Illustrated and New York Times “No-Knead”…
Living Bread
Okay, I think I’m getting it now. The more I read about starters, bigas, sponges, and poolishes, I can see how working with yeast is like gardening. Starting with tiny seeds you can create bounty, flavor, life. This is why…
Bayk-Mor
I’m looking over the flour brand list from the bakery supply place I visited last week. I started out trying to confirm whether the “Big Yield” flour I bought is unbleached, as it is indicated on my invoice. I may…
Disc me!
There is a disc golf course in Balboa Park, a beautiful collection of glades, swales, and broad greens. I drive past it periodically going to meetings during the week, and it’s always busy. Who are these people playing disc golf…
Astragal
Just a quick thought while I’m at work. When I see “astragal” listed in one of my documents, I don’t think of the door hardware. I think of a girl wearing a silver miniskirt, a cone-shaped hat with an atom…
Digging Holes
This weekend I dug literal and figurative holes. The former were for our new fence, a home project that has stretched out because of inevitable time restrictions. The latter were on Mother’s Day. But first, a picture of the digger.…
Major Leagues
IMG_0043 Now I've got to make a lot of bread–I just bought 100 pounds of flour. I found a bakery supply way out in the countryside. It was in serious boulders, sagebrush, and corral country and the sign only indicated…
Chirp chirp!
Yesterday I calculated out my ingredient costs for bread. My forehead did not get very sweaty, despite such ‘solve for X’ problems as figuring out the per teaspoon costs of honey or yeast, when such things are sold by weight. …
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