Sean and I have been baking for years. When we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, we primarily did sourdough because it was so simple to get it right! Then we moved to Colorado, and struggled with finding the right balance with our sourdough starter. But, we started turning to The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum more often. We found that even at altitude, her recipes come out well very reliably!
Fast forward a couple years. We stopped baking as much after the Munchkin was born, because who has time for bread when you’re working and taking care of a baby?
Fast forward some more to spring 2020. Like much of the nation, we were home and grocery stores were seeing shortages. We started baking again as a way to provide for our family and bring some regularity to the week (Mondays became sandwich bread days, Fridays became challah days.) This continued until January 2021, when I got pregnant with #2 and nausea set in so badly that I couldn’t stand to be anywhere near the kitchen.
Well, after months of pregnancy nausea, I can finally cook and bake again! Some things still trigger the gag reflex (Sean is still in charge of any raw meat) but I’ve been able to find joy in baking again! Munchkin enjoys it too, since he’s now at the perfect age to help stir with lots of supervision. Since we’re baking regularly again, I thought I’d try doing a series I’ve thought about for ages, and bake my way through The Bread Bible. Rose Levy Beranbaum has so many amazing recipes here, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of this book! My goal with this series is to try a different recipe each week, photograph and write about it. Hopefully this will be a good way to take notes as I bake, and maybe act as a review of her delicious recipes.
Happy baking!
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