Tupper Lake, November 6, 2012 by Jeff Boucher

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Wednesday-Baguettes, Boule & Pizza......

Hump Day.  TGIW?   It's all downhill from here, right? 

While we're waiting for the weekend to come to us, may as well bake.  
This afternoons baking consisted of 3 items. 

First up, baguettes.  
Hadn't made baguettes before, but they were pretty easy.
Made up a batch of no-knead dough yesterday following the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day recipe.  Let it sit in the fridge overnight, took it out when we got home, let it warm up a bit and made these crusty little loaves.
This was a practice run for Danielle's wedding in June. I'm going to bake the bags for (part of) the appetizers, served up with olive oil.

There were four to start-one was consumed in a taste test. 
Nice and crusty on the outside, chewy with a decent crumb inside. 
These'll work, oh boy will they work.

Then I had some leftover dough, so I made a boule for my favorite retiring co-worker.
She'll get this in the morning tonight-it's better warm.

Finally I made 2 pizzas for supper ( hadn't had any in a couple of days).

Used the frozen dough from Sav-A-Lot. 
It cost 99 cents, defrost easily in the microwave and spreads easily. It's not as good as homemade dough, but darn close and for a weeknight it's a timesaver.

Made a white pie with garlic, onion, tomato, parm, mozzarella and some fresh basil. 

Good stuff.

Then a cheese pie with regular pizza sauce.

More good stuff.
With the new oven I can use the pizza stone and my new peel.  I cooked these at 500 degrees.
Makes a huge difference.  Once you start baking on the stone, you won't go back I assure you-just don't let your knuckles brush up against it when you're removing the pizza-it's hot, really hot.

Later!



6 comments:

  1. Beautiful loaves. And your pizza looks perfect.

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  2. Nice! I love bread but rarely make it because with just 2 of us we never eat it all! The pizza looks yum!

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  3. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! I've never made baguettes, but I really need to give it a try -- yours are gorgeous! Your pizza looks really delicious too.

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  4. Both those pizza are making me hungry just looking at them!

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  5. Hey Tup,
    Can't believe those baguettes are your first! They usually give some trouble in the shaping, but yours look great!

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  6. Baguettes came out pretty good for the first run, although I'm going to make them a little thicker. These were about 2" in diameter before they baked, I may try 'em @ 3".

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