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Miche with Spelt and Rye Levain

Two Sourdough Focaccias - Raisin and Savory

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I spent the day making a couple of sourdough focaccias and a miche that is similar to the Thom Leonard Country French recipe in Artisan Baking by Maggie Glezer. The recipe for the focaccias follows.
A spread sheet in xls format and html format for the dough is posted, which has amounts in ounces and bakers percentages, percent of fermented flour and other possibly useful information. Some photos of the process are posted, as well.

Paella de Camarones y Langosta

This paella is based on "Paella con Mariscos" recipes. I know my kids love large shrimp and lobster, so I decided to focus on these ingredients for a seafood based paella. It wasn't clear what vegetables, if any ought to be included, but we have some very good artichokes and some organic green beans that seemed fresh in the store, so I decided to work with them, since they are common in other paella recipes. Probably, I have missed the ideal combination of ingredients for a paella with seafood, but my family loved this dish.

Pane Casareccio e Lariano di Genzano

Daniel Leader's Local Breads has a fascinating story of his visit to Genzano, where he saw them make large, almost charred looking, bran dusted breads raised with a biga naturale, an Italian firm sourdough levain. I enjoyed hearing about his visit with Sergio, while they mixed, raised, and loaded 64 very large loaves into a wood-fired oven. Now that I have a brick oven in my back yard, I thought I'd give a try at making these loaves in the size he says he observed at the bakery he visited. He says they created approximately 8 pound loaves that were loaded eight at a time into an eight foot long by one foot wide by about 4 inches tall box with divisions in it for eight loaves. Thanks to Zolablue for doing this recipe as shown in Leader's book and writing about it in her blog, which provided inspiration as well as lots of information and photos.

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