- Ellie Marie

Labels: Almost Ice Cream, Mint Choco Chip, Muffins

Alright, so I made the mini Baguettes yesterday... here's how it went.

I found out that 'hard flour' is actually just bread flour, so I went to Dillon's and bought some.


I also bought a new container to keep it in that looked like my sugar and multi-purpose flour containers.


This is the bread flour next to regular flour, it's more yellow and a thicker texture.


I didn't know what 'polenta' was, it was corn meal, I had a bag of it at home! Hooray!


This is the yeast sitting in with the sugar and warm water.


This is the 'flour well'.


Here is the yeast mixture poured into the 'flour well'.


This is the mixing of the yeast and the first half of the flour mixture.


Here it is all mixed up now.


This is what it looks like after adding in the rest of the flour mixture.
Then it sits for forever, and then you knead it. And it sits some more.


There they are all done! The only thing I would have done differently was make my slits a little deeper, they didn't come out very prominent.

Anywho. Next time I am going to make some muffins!

- Ellie Marie

Labels: baguettes, first, hard flour

Alright, here we go.

I have decided to start my journey with trying out recipes, so that I can decide what I like, what I don't like, what is something would/could change to make it my own and so on and so forth.

Today I am going to attempt to make 'mini baguettes' with the recipe found in 'Baking: A Commonsense Guide,' page 347.

The ingredients are nice and simple, so we will start there...

2 teaspoons of dried yeast
1 teaspoon of sugar
10 3/4 fl oz (1 1/4 cups) of warm water
90g (3/4 cup) of plain (all-purpose) flour
375g (3 cups) of white strong flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 fl oz (1/4 cup) warm water
2 tablespoons of polenta, to sprinkle

There we are. That's it. Not a whole lot to it.

But I did notice while originally looking at this recipe that there are two different types of flour.

So, a quick study in flour will be my focus of today. (Baguettes aside.)

- Ellie Marie

Labels: baguettes, baking, Baking: A Commonsense Guide, basics, flour, mini, start

Alright, here we are.

I am sitting in my living room, of my husband and I's two bedroom apartment in Wichita, KS.

I have for the past couple of years or so felt like I have been searching, searching for something. Be that, understanding, commitment, peace... I don't know.

But I do know one thing.

Food = Peace for me.

Baking = Peace for me.

I love to bake, and feel perfectly at ease when I do.

Nothing makes me happier inside, then to get to share something I have poured myself into with someone else.

So here we are.

- Ellie Marie

Labels: bakery, baking, beginning, commit, commitment, peace, understand, understanding