I apologize for being a bad blogger at the beginning of the week. We had a very significant chuck of reading to do for school this week, so my brain has been very busy! It was really fun reading though and has lead to the beginning of a really awesome week of school.
It is officially bread week and I am oh so happy! Anyone who knows me very well, knows that I have a seriously deep love for yeast. And now with all of my new knowledge about gluten, bread is even more fabulous. We started with baguette doughs tonight and got our production assignments for the rest of the week. I get to make dinner rolls and potato rosemary bread, plus we are all going to make pizzas for lunch on Saturday. Bread is so cool. SO cool!
I have enjoyed experimenting with bread in my own kitchen and I am thrilled to have someone with so much experience to teach me how to do it right. Chef Marilyn used to be the manager at Breadworks, so she has more bread experience than anyone I have ever met and I am really warming up to her teaching style. She has been a lot of fun the past couple of weeks and I am much more comfortable being in the kitchen with her.
I find it really amazing that you can take just 4 ingredients and end up with an amazing product. And really if you are patient, you can use just two ingredients and end up with a pretty good product. One of the greatest things about bread is the kneading process. After you work your dough to a certain point you can actually pick up the edge of the dough like a handle and fling the rest of the dough at your bench. It is exceptionally noisy, but a great way to get rid of a little pent up anger and also just plain fun. I am a little scared about getting into bread because it could become more fun than cake and I can't continue to be the cake lady if I don't make cake anymore. Plus the bread lady doesn't sound as good.
The other exciting thing about today was that I got a new knife! I feel a little strange getting so excited about buying a potential weapon, but it was a really great deal and kitchen tools and gadgets are always exciting for kitchen people. One of the greatest kitchen stores I have ever been in happens to be less than 10 miles from my house, so I go look at cool things all the time and today they were having a knife sale. I got a new Zwilling J. A. Henkles 7'' santoku for a really great price and I can't wait to chop something tomorrow. It is a truly beautiful knife and I am having trouble deciding what I should use it for first. Breaking in a new knife is very exciting, especially when it is a knife that you paid less than half price for! :) I will have to cook something fun for lunch so I get a chance to use it before class tomorrow.
YAY for bread!!!!
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