Happy Monday Y'all!! Busy week this past week! 6 deep dish sourdough focaccias again, and 5 loaves of SD, 4 loaves of Amish Cinnamon Bread, along with a test run of a blueberry cream pie, and Shokupan too. Blueberry Cornbread gifted to a neighbor, and of course pizza on the Ooni - we have started a new tradition in our 'hood, we make an extra pizza on Friday nights and offer it up to someone on our neighborhood FB group. Sometimes they come by and join us for their pizza on the front porch or sometimes they take it with them. And wine too! Needless to say i'm keeping busy in retirement.
I'm going through a lot of KA AP flour, still getting it at Costco. Ingredient prices have gone crazy, right? Trying to not raise pricing in my little home bakery but flour alone has gone up 20% over the last 9 months or so. Ideas??
Lots of happy fermenting this weekend. A gallon of yogurt now draining in the fridge, some to eat, raita, marinades, and labneh. Bananas from the yard whole wheat banana bread with yogurt, walnut, and dark chocolate chips. The fifth iteration of whole wheat, oat, cinnamon raisin sandwich bread. Using an autolyse with whole wheat flour after soaking the oats has made the dough much easier to handle. It rose faster, even with decreasing the yeast, and has a perfect crumb. A shout out to the cinnamon raisin sourdough from Community Loaves in Jacksonville, Fl
Happy Monday Y'all!! Busy week this past week! 6 deep dish sourdough focaccias again, and 5 loaves of SD, 4 loaves of Amish Cinnamon Bread, along with a test run of a blueberry cream pie, and Shokupan too. Blueberry Cornbread gifted to a neighbor, and of course pizza on the Ooni - we have started a new tradition in our 'hood, we make an extra pizza on Friday nights and offer it up to someone on our neighborhood FB group. Sometimes they come by and join us for their pizza on the front porch or sometimes they take it with them. And wine too! Needless to say i'm keeping busy in retirement.
I'm going through a lot of KA AP flour, still getting it at Costco. Ingredient prices have gone crazy, right? Trying to not raise pricing in my little home bakery but flour alone has gone up 20% over the last 9 months or so. Ideas??
Have a fabulous week all!
Lots of happy fermenting this weekend. A gallon of yogurt now draining in the fridge, some to eat, raita, marinades, and labneh. Bananas from the yard whole wheat banana bread with yogurt, walnut, and dark chocolate chips. The fifth iteration of whole wheat, oat, cinnamon raisin sandwich bread. Using an autolyse with whole wheat flour after soaking the oats has made the dough much easier to handle. It rose faster, even with decreasing the yeast, and has a perfect crumb. A shout out to the cinnamon raisin sourdough from Community Loaves in Jacksonville, Fl
https://www.stirthepots.com/2022/05/andrew-janjigian-first-is-a-scientist-turned-writer-and-boulanger-we-came-up-onto-my-screen-during-a-gabriele.html and this maybe helped?