Bad, Bad, Babe!
I'm a bad Babe.
A very bad Babe.
I didn't bake my bread.
Shame on me.
Shame, shame, shame!!!
I do have my reasons (Doesn't everyone? Always?)
I won't recount them yet again (see 2 previous posts...or maybe 3.... I may have been doing a lot of bitching lately... But I'm a Bitchin' Bread Baking Babe!)
Enough about me. This months fantastic bread was brought to us by Sher, of What Did You Eat: a Poilane-style Miche - made with a wild yeast starter!
I'm telling you, each and everyone looks fantastic....
Go!
Look!
Drool!
A Fridge Full of Food (Glenna), Bake My Day (Karen), Cookie Baker Lynn (Lynn), I Like to Cook (Sara), Lucullian Delights (Ilva), My Kitchen in Half Cups (Tanna), Grain Doe (Gorel), Notitie van Lien (Lien), The Sour Dough (Mary aka Breadchick), and What Did You Eat (Sher)
Living on Bread and Water (Monique), and Thyme of Cooking (Katie), (moi) are Babes on Hiatus this month....
My goodness, you're not a bad babe, unless you mean "Bad" in that way that has transformed "sick" into a good term. :):)
I've been thinking about your recent news and it's very exciting. But, I've sort of grown attached to my mental image of your home.
Posted by: sher | May 19, 2008 at 09:34 PM
Katie--Hey, sometimes life interferes with out preferences, eh? Oh well. Next time!
Posted by: Glenna | May 20, 2008 at 05:18 AM
Katie, I think buying or selling a house anywhere, but ESPECIALLY in Europe, is enough for anyone to try and do. Bake bread too? Not possible!! At least you live somewhere where you can get decent bread - not the kind we get here, wrapped in plastic until it's dead.
Didn't even know about Bread Baking Babes. I've been baking bread like crazy these days! A Poilane style Miche? I think that's a big reason I bought Peter Reinhart's book "The Bread Baker's Apprentice", because of the photo on the cover. Any bread you can hug has my vote!
Posted by: Toni | May 20, 2008 at 07:29 AM
Sher, I've grown rather attached to this place, too... Then I go outside and look at all the work that needs to be done... And I'm no longer sad.
Glenna, all too often!
Toni, I believe that is the book that inspired Sher... Try it... That reminds me, I wonder if we'll have a bread truck in our new place...wherever that is...
Posted by: katie | May 20, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Ah seems to me you haven't been alone being a Bitching Bread Baking Babe. And relax because for the moment you're on hiatus. Haha yes relax as you mow and pack and . . . yeah relax Katie.
Posted by: MyKitchenInHalfCups | May 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM
yep, stand in the corner until we say you can go and cut the grass! I'm sure you will be back soon as an active Babe and I am ooking forward to it!!
Posted by: ilva | May 20, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Even if you hadn't just sold (is it actually sold?) your house, didn't have to deal with TWO flat tires, didn't have to waste time on the phone with "tech support" (ha. where DO they get off calling themselves that?) and didn't have blisters from wearing unaccustomed footwear, it's perfectly understandable. That Poilane-style miche recipe is IMPOSSIBLE to follow (I'm beginning to suspect that the other babes just went to Poilane's and bought bread ;-))
But at least you're still a babe. You're even officially on hiatus this month, according to the BBB links.
-Elizabeth, BBwB, BBcB (Bread Baking wannaBe, Bread Baking cryBaby)
P.S. I'm really looking forward to seeing Mary's, Görel's and Sara's Poilane-style loaves (maybe they're stuck in customs or got lost in the mail and that's why they hasn't posted about theirs yet. ;-))
Posted by: Elizabeth | May 20, 2008 at 07:05 PM
Don't you love acronyms? So versatile!
Posted by: Baking Soda | May 21, 2008 at 07:25 AM
Sometimes bread baking evokes some whine and bitching. I'm just sayin'
Posted by: Colleen | May 21, 2008 at 07:25 AM
I'll do it for you :-)
Posted by: Ulrike | May 21, 2008 at 02:05 PM
lol, the bread posts always sound high stress! Sounds like you have very good reason to be pre-occupied though at the moment...
Posted by: Mike | May 21, 2008 at 03:09 PM
I don't know this event. Will it be open for anyone? I've been baking bread lately. I've started my sourdough yeast again after last time it was gone off. And you're hiatus? Hurry back, Katie! :) Have a great trip (if you're going away).
Posted by: arfi | May 22, 2008 at 03:26 AM
Bread...yum....
Heidi
Posted by: Heidi | May 22, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Tanna, that would be mow, pack and worry!
Ilva, in the meantime I'm getting lawn mowing blisters...
Elizabeth, we only think we sold.... we still have to wait for the signatures, etc. before it's definite... A lot can happen!
Baking Soda, they really are rather, aren't they ;-))
Colleen, for me that would be wine....
Thank you, Ulrike... I'll be watching!
Mike, amazing what lengths I'll go to, isn't it!
Arfi, you can be a 'buddy' and bake it if you like... and area a glutton for punishment... Ooops, didn't mean to say that...
Posted by: Katie | May 22, 2008 at 09:28 PM