As I said in a post a few weeks ago, I discovered Tuesdays with Dorie long after they'd started baking through Baking: From My Home to Yours. But once I discovered the magical world of food blogs, I always enjoyed my friends' TWD posts. So when a new TWD group started this year, and I just happened to get the book, Baking with Julia, for Christmas, and I just happened to get some pressure from a certain someone, and I saw that the first two recipes were a bread and a yummy chocolate tart, of course I signed up. :)
After a busy Saturday morning, just as I was heading out the door to go grocery shopping, hubby said, "Hey, what about chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner?!" We had no bread in the house, but I remembered that the BwJ recipe was supposed to be fairly quick (it says, "Since the dough belongs to the direct-rise family....you can mix a batch after breakfast and eat still-warm-from-the-oven bread for lunch."), so I took off my coat and mixed up the dough.
The method was a little unusual to me; you mix some water with the yeast and sugar and let it bubble (no surprise there), then add the flour and mix. Then add the salt. Then knead for a long while, and finally add the butter. But, as promised in the recipe, the dough did finally come together. It gave my stand mixer a workout, so I alternated between mixer and kneading by hand.
The dough rose while I was at the grocery store and a little over an hour later, I came home to this:
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The bread had a slightly unusual flavor, but I couldn't quite place it. Maybe it's because we sliced it when it was still pretty warm. It made excellent grilled cheese sandwiches, and was pretty popular with everyone. Hubby used the rest of the loaf to make eggs-in-a-nest for breakfast over the next several mornings; he was very happy. :)
Laurie and Jules, the fearless leaders of TWD, are the hosts this week, so check out their blogs for the recipe!
Wow, that looks huge! And so good...that grilled cheese shot has me knowing what's for lunch here today...yum! So happy you decided to join in with this adventure, it wouldn't be the same without you. Me...pressure you into it? Not possible...lol! You will have a great time in TWD BWJ -- xo...a certain someone!
ReplyDeleteMy loaf had crazy oven spring, too. =) Grilled cheese sounds yummy. I made part of mine into hot dog buns; we'll find out this evening how well that worked.
ReplyDeleteSo many people have made grilled cheese sandwiches. I think I have enough bread left to make one sandwich that we'll have to fight over!
ReplyDeleteNot just your bread, but your whole lunch looks great! You've got me wondering about the unusual flavor of the bread - hmmm.
ReplyDeleteNicely browned grilled cheese!! Love the exploding loaf. I'll have to try this recipe again to see if I can get a little taller loaf. I've seen several that have sprung up like that. We loved ours w/ the new ATK recipe for tuna salad that I found.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's quite the dome.
ReplyDeleteThis bread made some stellar grilled cheese sandwiches, didn't it?
I'll bet that was one heck of a loaf of bread! I think this was a fun start to the new group - I'm loving everyone's interpretations.
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