The conquest of bread

[sabotabby]

Look I realize everyone is making sourdough these days but bread has always been the Final Boss Fight for me (well, that and the perfect macaron) and my first attempt turned out splooty and not good. My second attempt? Tastes like actual bread, except better because I made it myself.







It's a no-knead recipe and it's kind of flat because I don't actually own a proper loaf pan, so I had to use a giant casserole dish but whatever! It has the taste and texture of bread. It has a crust. It absorbs olive oil. I made it myself with the sourdough starter my friend mailed me. I can continue to make more and better breads! I can have toast and jam with my coffee tomorrow.

I am exceedingly excited about this.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

as well you should be! YAY BREAD!

[sabotabby]

I got that bread!

[nyctanthes]

That looks very tasty.

I want to make bread, but by the time I'm done cleaning all I want to do is sit. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

[sabotabby]

See, that's my secret. I don't clean nearly enough.

[franklanguage]

Agreed; an achievement is an achievement!

I have made bread before—and pizza dough—but yeast has always made me nervous. My mother literally couldn't bake [yeast] bread, although her mother always made babka with no measurements or anything.

[sabotabby]

I'm definitely going to attempt pizza dough because I miss pizza so much! And I have these skull molds and everything.

But. Baby steps. My biggest thing is going to be making sourdough with kalamata olives, because that is my top form of bread.

[umadoshi]

Victory is yours!

[sabotabby]

I do the happy dance and the fist pump of triumph.

[firecat]

The bread looks great, and I'm envious of your cat head cooling rack.

[sabotabby]

It's pretty great. We won't talk about where I got it.

[mordorbot]

Yay!

[sabotabby]

I did the thing!

[mordorbot]

You won the Apocalypse!

[dragonlady7]

nice!!! :)

[sabotabby]

I am proud of it.

[broken_record]

I feel like bread pics always make me crave bread. It's like a comfort food.

[sabotabby]

It was other people's bread pictures that got me wanting to make my own.

[dagibbs]

I love that you have a kitty cooling rack!

[sabotabby]

Because of course I do!

[dagibbs]

Of course you do!

[rdi]

Breadmaking is awesome and I need to do more of it.

Speaking of pizza, pizza party chez moi once this is over. I'll provide the bases, everyone brings their favourite toppings, we make lots of pizza and eat it.

[sabotabby]

YES PLEASE!!!!

[wolby]

bread! bread! bread! bread! bread!

[sabotabby]

It was starting to go stale

so

I made GARLIC BREAD

[wolby]

good choice! my mouth is watering, gonna start a bread at sundown lol.

[sabotabby]

I'm going to start a new one tonight and put kalamata olives in it.

[whatarewordsfor]

I’m getting bitten by the bread bug. What is it about going back to basics? Let’s make bread!

[sabotabby]

My third attempt is looking faily so far (but you never know!) but yeah, I just want to add something good to the world. Like carbs.