Knead me, bake me…

I’ve been in home-baked limbo for awhile. I killed my starter long ago, sometime between the move from Hyde Park to Bridgeport, then was oven-less in our loft for awhile, then had a brief but steamy no-knead fling… but now I’m back to the real thing!

I’ve got two new starters going (a wheat and a rye chef) for making levain chillin’ in the fridge, and have made a sourdough pesto rye loaf (and am now in the pesto donut hole. I just used the last of the frozen stuff from the fall, and am far from having enough basil to make more, but it will taste all the sweeter when I do!) and sourdough wheat pizza.

My bread bible is Bread Alone (Baking with Julia is my favorite pastry primer, alongside the Tartine pastry cookbook), along with some photocopied sheets from a Peter Reinheart workshop on whole grain breads at an IACP conference that was held at my culinary school while I was in Chef Kelson’s baking class- work for free on a Saturday and meet a bread-guru? Don’t mind if I do!

I have a freezer-full of spent grain from S’s wheat-beer brew last Saturday ready to turn into sourdough spent grain bread from those recipes for the Nite Market on Saturday…

I’ll also have jars of homegrown herbal tea (lemon balm, raspberry leaf, mint, and rose blend), local honey, jars of sage-lemon wine mustard, some Alewyfe Farm preserves and salsas, hopefully another batch of caramelized onions, canine cookies for your dog friends, and some strawberry-porter chocolate cupcakes for sale, with tasty adult beverages to share with you as well!

We’ll be at the ReBuilding Exchange from 6-9 pm along with 40 or so other food artisans, and it’s a private event so there’s a $2 membership fee at the door. More details here!

http://www.nitemarket.net/