How I Spent My Summer Vacation
It’s been a quiet week here at Wild Yeast, but not a quiet one for me at all. I just finished a 5-day advanced artisan bread workshop at the San Francisco Baking Institute – my fourth at the school. The courses are geared towards professional bakers, but (lucky for me) home bakers are also welcome. Check out SFBI’s program if you’re interested in learning, in a very hands-on fashion, how to bake bread from the most passionate, knowledgeable, and friendly people in the baking industry. (And no, they really didn’t pay me to say that!)
Here are some of the breads we made this week. See more photos here. You can be sure I’ll be making many of these at home in the coming weeks… stay tuned!
Roasted Potato Bread
Caramelized Hazelnut Squares
Spelt Bread
Miches
Semolina-Durum Crowns
Pan d’Oro
Fru B August 25 2007 at 02:43 am 1
Fantastic bread and a really nice page!
I will visit your blogg more.
Trish August 25 2007 at 07:47 am 2
Fabulous looking bread - could be a page out of a gourmet magazine - nice photos - we’ll be looking forward to the recipes!
fleur-de-liz August 25 2007 at 01:29 pm 3
Those breads are gorgeous, particularly the roasted potato bread and the semolina-durum crowns! What type of flour did you use for the miches? You are tempting me to sign up for a SFBI course…. Can’t wait to see your future breads! Thanks, Liz
bluezebra August 25 2007 at 03:37 pm 4
Susan I hardly know what to say! Those are so beautiful and I just think you must be in a category all your own cuz you are not the typical “home cook”! Brava those are all beauties and so exotic looking!
zorra August 26 2007 at 05:21 am 5
Wow! I’m looking forward to see the recipes.
Susan August 26 2007 at 02:36 pm 6
Fru B, where are you from? I visited your blog and I think I recognize the language as a Scandinavian one. I used to speak a little Swedish, but sadly that has left me now. I enjoyed your photos though!
Trish and Zorra, it is really wonderful to go to the class and be able to turn out all of these great breads — we’ll see how I fare when I’m trying to do them at home. Probably a different story altogether.
Liz, the miches have a combination of white flour, high-extraction flour, and rye. They are huge — almost 4 pounds each.
BZ, it’s really not me, it’s the class!
kitchenMage August 27 2007 at 02:23 pm 7
This is so unfair! I have next to no bread in the house and those pictures are killing me!
Susan August 28 2007 at 06:30 pm 8
kitchenMage, no bread, but do you have flour, water, yeast, and salt? So…
Jamila September 1 2007 at 10:35 am 9
Truly fantastic! That would definitely be a class to love! Great pictures!
Bart September 4 2007 at 03:57 pm 10
This is pretty awesome. I wish I could learn this.
Awesome!
Susan September 5 2007 at 11:10 pm 11
Jamila, yes, I feel very fortunate to have been able to take the class, and I did love it.
Bart, I think you have learned it, from the looks of your blog! Very nice breads.
Abbey September 15 2007 at 07:12 pm 12
Susan, this is gorgeous! I’d like to know how you got that lovely look of the spelt breads–it’s not slashing. Did you flip them seam-side up for baking?
Susan September 16 2007 at 12:06 pm 13
Abbey, you’re very perceptive. The edge of the dough was swept lightly through flour before gently closing the seam, and they were indeed baked seam-side-up.
Baking Soda September 19 2007 at 02:09 pm 14
Oh my! It’s already late at night here and I am drooling over yr pics! I love each and every one of them. I just recently discovered your blog (sorry!) and now I must read all of your posts…
I wish we had baking classes like that in Holland, seriously considering relocating.
Susan September 21 2007 at 06:12 am 15
Baking Soda, thanks for stopping by! Relocating is probably not necessary, just consider a San Francisco vacation…