There were no objections to this latest Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge recipe.  Odd, that.
We’re now on recipe number eight, out of 43 as we work through the entire list of recipes. As already noted in a previous post, I skipped Challah and Ciabatta as I’d already made both of them before.
So here we are at [...]

Since I decided to skip the next two breads in the challenge, these being the challah (yet another egg bread and one I’ve done before)  and the Ciabatta (again, previously done) I decided it was time to get me some tasty sourdough. Since I was on my own that week (Punkin being off visiting the [...]

I went out and bought the “special” ingredients needed for this Casatiello, an Italian “cousin” of the eggy French brioche and the fifth recipe in The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. The 200g of Calabrese salami and the 250 chunk of Provolone cheese cost $12. Yipes, I thought, this had better be damn good bread.
Just as a [...]