Category: Baking Projects
Weekend Bakery Projects: Veggie Danish & Fudge
How great is it to enjoy your traveling and have something to look forward to when you get home. That’s how I feel every time I witness something inspirational while on holiday. Our travels through Devon and Cornwall, although not the bread feast we had hoped for, where full of new food experiences…which led to lots of fudge and veggie danish… [...]
Lots of Loaf ♥ & Chocolate Truffles
Happy Valentine’s Day everybody and lots of loaf & love from our little bakery. It is a shame we cannot literally share our bread and baked goodies with most of you so you have to make due with our heartfelt wishes and virtual gifts. The most wonderful kind of gift is the one that is custom made for you, expresses true feelings and comes as a surprise. That is why we were both a bit overwhelmed by the Valentine’s card we got… [...]
Weekend Bakery Projects : Bread & Marmalade
Here’s a little compilation of some of our recent weekend projects involving lots of dough making, coffee roasting and also a dollop of marmalade. We also started drying apples for our apple cider bread project. It is such fun, I immediately want to incorporate it in all our baking. Same with the marmalade, I have already used it in a banana cake… [...]
Festive Favorites of Christmas Past
Last Christmas we baked, cooked, roasted and boiled so much, it’s probably some sort of record! Here’s a little overview with lots of pics and some lists of favorite Christmas recipes, songs, movies and books and some last minute tips to further spread the Joy. Merry Christmas to you and may all your (baking) wishes come true! And a very happy New Year too! [...]
Pizza – until you have that wood-fired oven…
We wanted to get as close to the fire of a real pizza oven as possible, until we would have the place, time and money to build one ourselves. Then one evening we zappingly land in the middle of a German cooking “infomercial” about a little pizza oven you can use at home. What intrigued us was that the crust on the pizza looked really good.Long story short: [...]
Feeding a Monastery for € 5,75
My grandfather (born in 1899) was, what you would now call, an artisan baker. But in the 1930′s it was just called a baker. We now look back on all this as quite romantic times. But of course it was just really, really hard work for little money. Maybe that is the reason he never talked about his baking days (when I got to know him he’d already retired) and I never saw him bake anything. [...]
WKB Bake Weekend 2/10
Ed’s trying to become a master at macaron making and he’s making serious progress. He has gone through all the usual stages: from sagging feet, over and under beating, crackling of the shells, oven too hot or cold, to something to do with nipples and so on…lots of variables, lots of stuff that can go wrong… [...]
Birth of the BB Loaf
The Idea: Making a loaf with baguette dough. The big question: will the baguette dough be strong enough to hold its shape when you release it from the banneton? There was only one way to find out… [...]
Baguettes: My Home Baker’s Log
Keeping track of my baguette baking trials and errors with the goal of eventually becoming a true proficient. I was intrigued by this 80% hydration dough recipe, it seemed like a good starting point… [...]
Not By Bread Alone
Man can’t survive by bread alone. He also needs coffee! But life is too short to drink bad coffee. That’s why we took up home roasting. At least at home we can be sure we’ll always have good coffee… [...]
Amsterdam Artisan Bakers List
Visiting Amsterdam and in search of the best Bakers and Pastry Shops? Print this list of bakeries and make your own Artisan Baker journey through the City. [...]
Weekend Bakes
It was a bit of a ‘crazy baking weekend’ these past few days. We decided to bake and then bake some more. Partly on request, partly for fun and partly experimental. Our Rofco bread oven gave everything it had… [...]
Excited About The Mini Boules & French Fondue
I tend to get excited about mini versions of food stuff. And I do not always have the arguments to back this up… [...]
More Bread Please…
Our micro bakery has limited capacity in more ways than one. Still not a week goes by or we are requested to make more bread. We then have to explain that yes, we have a bigger than normal bread oven, … [...]
Before Wheat: Ancient Grains
Do you know the name of this grain? Probably not enough left to make our bread! By now most people are familiar with the ancient grain spelt, especially those of you who can’t digest wheat that well. It was important … [...]
French Pastry and MOF’s
A few months ago we saw a program about French pastry chefs that left us with tears in our eyes (imagine working for 4 years on your masterpiece and then dropping it out of your hands at the ‘moment suprême’!) … [...]
Things We Baked This Weekend III
Just half a focaccia for me please, I’m on a diet This Saturday finally proved to be a good day to get some fresh flour from the mill. It is a bit of a journey for us and the last … [...]
Things We Baked This Weekend II & A Word of Thanks
Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic, stimulating and inspiring reactions to our first bread video. And also to all the people who tasted our bread this year and asked for more! and also gave very useful tips for improvement and additions. … [...]
Things We Baked over the Weekend
Again a weekend full of bread flavours and smells. The best thing to be done when all you get outside is rain, rain and more rain. In fact the weather was so bad that our Dutch Santa, the famous ‘Sinterklaas’ … [...]
The Amsterdam Artisan Bread Test
See below for version in Dutch Visiting artisan bread shops in the center of Amsterdam and comparing bread Last Friday we finally got around to doing our little ‘Amsterdam bakery tour’. We decided to only test bread, or else we … [...]