I baked bread today. Actually I started my dough yesterday. Using James Lahey’s slow fermentation approach, I made a simple dough yesterday and let it do its thing overnight. This afternoon, I gave it a second rise for a couple hours and again using Lahey’s method, I preheated a Dutch oven to close to 500F then dropped the dough in, covered it, and let it bake for half an hour before finishing the process with the lid off.
The bread was seriously fantastic, with a really well-developed crust, and a nice open crumb with plenty of chew and character.
All this was to accompany dinner, which was a fish soup, made with potatoes, carrots, zucchini, celery, haddock, loads of fresh dill and parsley, a splash of Mad Tom’s IPA and fresh lemon juice squeezed in at the end.
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What a beautiful loaf of bread! New Years dinner was sure to be divine at your house! We went to friends’ for Indian potluck and it was seriously yummy.
I’d enjoy Indian potluck too!
ooh that looks great! I’ve got dahl cooking slowly…and am going to bbq some vegies and beef in an hour or so…
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