For The Love of Bread

For The Love of Bread
For reasons I don’t understand, the bread making and baking bug has taken hold of me.

Not just sourdough, yeast breads like simple challah, enriched doughs like babka and laminated doughs for pastries and croissants. All types of bread, the more complicated recipe the better. 

Add to this my love affair with locally stone milled flours, especially dark rye and hundreds of loaves and cakes later, here I am. 

When I run into someone I haven’t seen for awhile. Do you eat bread? has replaced my usual greeting of Hello! How are you?

The best part of this is the fun I am having in not only baking bread, but learning something completely new, studying bread baking, reading every book I can get my dough covered hands on and sharing conversation with other bread baking lovers. Besides this, the best part is giving it away to unsuspecting and very happy receivers. 

You should open a bakery, my friends and clients keep saying. 

No. No. Not that. I don’t want to ruin it, too much pressure.

I am not professionally trained, I am not an expert. I am not someone who makes endless posts of my bread on social media either, but I am someone who loves to learn and teach. 

This has led me to create a class called Very Beginner Intro To Bread Baking class.

Very Beginner Intro To Bread Baking
Tuesday, February 11, 10-4
$150

This is for you if:

You have apprehension in getting started. I was there too.

You are afraid of any recipe that calls for yeast. I was there too.

You don't think you have the patience to get started with a sourdough starter or maintain one for that matter. Yep, that too.

What you will learn and takeaway:

How to make a basic sourdough bread.

How to care for your starter.

How to make a simple yeast bread.

Intro to Bread baking lingo, like bread baking schedules and dough hydration.  

You will take away a starter and some bread that you made to enjoy later.

This fun class will involve lots of conversation, questions answered, bread book recommendations, flour discussions, and lots of eating and laughing. 

Classes are small, less than 6 people. Some of the proceeds will go to East Bay Food Pantry so you will be doing good while you are learning something good too. 

This is about community, joy and eating bread again, bread that you make for you and your family. It doesn’t get better than this (and you may never buy bread again).