On Monday we had our weekly meeting. The first thing we talked about were some Areas of Focus for Sour Flour. Areas of Focus: 1. Increase involvement of members 2. Increasing skill level of bakers 3. Getting more members 4. Simplifying bread making process 5. Producing better bread The purpose of writing these down was [...]
It’s Bagel Monday again, and I’m ready for the Weekly Review. We didn’t do Bagel Monday Weekly Review last week (the first week back after a needed vacation), so we will skip our first step of reviewing last weeks notes. However, next week we will continue the process of starting with a review of the [...]
I’ve got another bread proofing right now that I’m pretty happy with so far. Although I baked no bread yesterday, I’ve been baking almost every day out of my home oven. My note taking has devolved a bit, but thats because I like to blend the hard numbers with a general look and feel way [...]
Today I baked my first loaves of bread at home since coming back from vacation. I came back Saturday night, but didn’t remember to take Dulce (my starter) out of the fridge until Sunday morning. For the previous week and a half, Dulce had been in a fairly stiff form, and had been chilling away [...]
Monday was my first day back at work, and also the first scheduled Sour Flour meeting. I’ve just recently gotten back from vacation, and just now going through the motions of figuring out how I want to be operating on a regular basis. We started the meeting off with some dinner, and kept things pretty informal…