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This weekend we joined Michelle Gayer (above with Jeff) from The Salty Tart Bakery, to make pizzas in a wood-fired oven at the 2nd Annual Bread Festival, hosted by Gold Medal Flour and the Mill City Farmers Market. It was a perfect fall day to bake outside and enjoy freshly baked breads and pizzas.
Nothing makes bakers happier than a beautiful day, some dough and a wood-fired oven.
Celebrity judges (Solveig Tofte of Sun Street Breads, Steve Horton of Rustica Bakery and Kim Ode of The Star Tribune) were on hand to taste all the home-baked breads for the baking contest. Be sure to enter your breads next year! For contest information and pictures of the gorgeous breads you can visit the Mill City Farmers Market Website.
Lorenzo is the man with the magic oven. His portable oven cranks up to about 900°F and bakes a pizza in 90 seconds.
He’s happy to build you one of your own or he’ll show up with his portable oven for a special occasion and make absolutely delicious pizzas.
Seriously cute pizza eaters in this crowd!
Thanks to Jillian and the entire kitchen staff at the Market who just happened to flip pizzas like a pro.
What a wonderful crowd turned out to watch all the baking and taste the incredible pizzas and foccacia.
A Salty Tart Foccacia with Fresh Arugula. We’ll ask Michelle for the recipe and adapt it to our Five Minutes a Day dough!
After all the baking we headed over to Spoonriver to celebrate with Brenda Langton (in the white hat), our lovely market hostess.
Thanks to Gold Medal Flour for bringing all these amazing bakers together for a fabulous day at the Market!
Note: General Mills Corp. is a sponsor of our book promotion and other activities, and provided free samples of Gold Medal Flour for testing.
Wow! Really inspirational! But I wish I had known, I could have hopped on the light rail and come down to see all that beautiful bread. Hope you’ll give us a heads up next year
We Tweeted and Facebooked it, and it was also on our Events page (see tab above).
I made the Anadama Corn Bread recipe with home-milled cornmeal, leaving it to rise for two hours, then placed it into the refrigerator as directed. The very next day, I pulled out the dough to bake and noticed that it had a very strong aroma similar to what I remember the corn mash smelling at the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in TN! I baked the loaves anyway, allowed them to cool, then wrapped & refrigerated them. That was on Sunday and tonight when I went to cut-off a slice, the aroma of alcohol is even stronger and the taste is bitter. What could be the problem? My husband is calling it tipsy-bread! HELP!
Teresa: Consider a low-yeast version of the recipe, see http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/2007/12/19/low-yeast-version-of-our-master-recipe
That alone might decrease the alcohol (a by-product of yeast fermentation). Also, make sure you’re properly venting the container, especially during the first 48 hours of very-active fermentation. See if those two help…
Zoe and Jeff,
I met you both at a pizza class in Phoenix earlier this year. Just wanted to say thanks for your wonderful yeast dough techniques! I have 240 middle school students making your lean dough, buttermilk dough, and challah successfully everyday in class. We have made cinnamon rolls, pizza on a stick, na’an, monkey bread, focaccia, braided loaves, and today, English muffins. All great, all do-able, all in a toaster oven or on an electric griddle. Every student can mix the dough, let it rise, explain how that process works, cloak the dough balls and prepare accordingly. Thanks for changing our cooking lives.
Sincerely,
Rony in Las Vegas
Thank you Rony!
We are thrilled to hear that there is a new generation of bakers out there! I hope they will teach their parents and spread the word!
Cheers, Zoë
I continue to enjoy your recipes. Last night I made the Blush Apple Tart with a modification. Don’t laugh but I was feeling a little lazy and doubtful about my ‘cream’ making skills. So I substituted marscapone for the cream. I used gala apples as they are a favorite in our home. I think the mandolin was key for the apples to be cooked at the same rate as the dough. It was so yummy.
Can’t wait to see more about the new book.
Angela
Hi Angela,
Laugh? I think you are a genius! I am going to try it with the mascarpone too!
Thanks, Zoë
I read a review of a new product called the Baking Steel.
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2012/09/the-pizza-lab-the-baking-steel-delivers.html
They say it produces a far superior pizza crust compared to a stone or the Lodge cast iron pizza pan. Since I have become obsessed with making pizza at home since buying your books I was wondering if you have heard about or tried out this product.
Thanks,
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
This sounds really interesting. You are the second person today to mention it. I am going to have to get one to add to my collection! http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/2010/08/24/pizza-stones-which-creates-the-best-crust
Thanks, Zoë
I have a wood fired oven and would like to know if I should modify your recipes for high heat oven.
Pam: Absolutely, shorter baking times for pizza (as little as 90 sec). As for loaves– must let the fire die down or it burns the outside of the loaf before the inside is finished. Figure no 475 for the loaf breads, and dont’ make such big ones.
I have just moved houses and this one comes with a convection oven. Can i make a good, thin-crust pizza in a convection oven? Plus, the highest temperature it goes to is 400 degrees.
Please advise!!
Nina: I find convection over-browns the cheese for pizza, so I don’t use it. Yours might be a better one. Too bad about the max temp of 400– you’ll need a longer baking time than what we call for.
I was considering making the master recipe from the Artisan Pizza cookbook using the Caputo 00 flour. Will using it require me to add more water or adjust any other ingredient? Or do I just follow the master recipe?
Thank you!
Beth
that book has a recipe based on Caputo or other “00″ flour, see page 73 of the book you mentioned for the recipe.
Thank you! I don’t know why I didn’t see that recipe.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it compares to the recipe using Gold Medal (or the like) flour.
Beth