It has been quite some time since I posted on our blog. But (un)fortunately the business and consulting world is holding me up from blogging and bread baking. But before I disappear again in the offices of the corporate world in upstate NY, I wanted to share this picture I found by accident in one
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I was not very active on our blog lately, but I was up again North in the beautiful Driftless Area of Wisconsin. The fall colors where magnificent and the weather most of the time too and with my hunting buddy Mark we browsed our woods stalking our favorite pray, deer. And we were again lucky
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Several readers of our blog had difficulties to open/download the files of my bread recipes. Especially if you use an older version of Microsoft Excel it didn’t work.
I have added now a PDF version to print and hope that all or at least most readers are able to use this format. It is not as
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On November 9th 1989 the traveling restrictions for East Germans were lifted and that evening the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, an unbelievable experience for many European who watched it, eyes glued to the TV. The next year on October 3rd the two countries were officially reunited. Three years later when the traveling conditions were
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This new blog is more looking backwards and helps remember and enjoy again our past travel adventures, as new ones will be scarce for the next couple of years. Since Sylvia works at Tom’s (www.tomsfarmmarket.com) her summers are so busy, it is even difficult to sneak away for only two days in a row. Her
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My Multi Grain Rolls post of yesterday created a lot of interest and for those who are interested to bake this rolls, here are some details of the process, learned (and copied) during my internship at Mark’s Back Home Bakery in Kalispell, MT:
Timings
Starter/Soaker combination: 4 to 5 hours or till it doesn’t rise anymore
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Lady (most of the time) Oreo and I
are back home from our hunting trip. Looking in the freezer my return was needed (and hopefully appreciated) because that thing was empty, not a single piece of bread to be seen. Luckily I brought a frozen loaf of my simple cabin bread with me, so the next
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During my recent Wisconsin/Cabin/Hunting extravaganza Sylvia was visiting for two days. We both love the outdoors and try to spend as much time together up north as we can. It is a four hours drive one way but she can still recover a little bit from her rather demanding job at Tom’s (Here is the
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I was ready to leave for our hideout in Wisconsin when I realized that I forgot to prepare bread to take with me. Now a week without my bread was not an option. I decided to (mis)use my rye sourdough starter St.Clair, just refreshed two days ago, and mix some dough together for my simple
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Zopf is the favorite bread of my younger son,
so he was very supportive of the idea to do some testing to adapt the recipe, make it better and easier to assemble the dough. He promised his friends in school to bring an entire loaf for lunch and that this bread would beat every other dad’s
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